Our work embraces a broad range of methodological approaches, including demographic
methods, modeling disease trends, systematic reviews, genetic epidemiology,
spatio-temporal analyses, longitudinal and intervention studies.
We have strong interests in obesity related disorders, such as diabetes and
cardiovascular disease, and on cancers.
We work in the North of England and internationally, and much of our work concerns populations undergoing rapid changes in their risk of these diseases, such as those in the rapidly growing urban areas of low and middle income countries. We have access to several large data collections and established cohorts.
We are a World Health Organization collaborating centre for diabetes and are actively collaborating with colleagues in sub-Saharan Africa (Cameroon and Tanzania), China and elsewhere.
Our work covers five themes: