Primary Care and Population Health

Overview

The Primary Care and Population Health research degree programme is based within at University College London's Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care. You will join an extremely engaging PhD programme, which currently supports a vibrant community of over 100 students from all over the world.

This programme offers you the opportunity to join a multidisciplinary research department with experts who focus on a wide range of public health concerns such as:

• Infectious disease monitoring, prevention and control
• Social determinants of health 
• Dental public health
• Disability across the globe
• Health and life expectancy in socially excluded groups
• Health surveys and longitudinal cohort studies

You will be supported to gain a wealth of skills, experience and networking opportunities that are relevant for a wide range of future careers, both within academia and more widely in the healthcare, industry and governmental sector.

Careers

This research degree programme aims to provide excellent and challenging training for exceptional students, so that they may successfully pursue careers in:

• Local and central government
• NHS trusts
• Public health organisations
• Hospitals and clinical trial units
• Academic researchers and university lecturers
• Policy management
• Government advisors
• Charity and non-governmental sectors

This degree can be varied and may have an international dimension, including fieldwork carried out abroad, setting up a study within the UK or other countries, or using secondary data from some of the UK’s largest, most comprehensive longitudinal datasets many of which are housed within the institute.

You will also have access to UCL's Doctoral Skills Development programme, which will enable you to expand your research and transferable skills in order to support your research, professional development and employability.