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Good health and wellbeing for all

Public health and wellbeing at Essex is local, regional, national and international in its research scope, collaborations and impact.

Our world-class research, health-sector collaborations, internationally-recognised infrastructure, community facilities, and researchers working across disciplines enable us to help shape public health and wellbeing policies and practice.


Our academic experts in Public Health and Wellbeing can be found from across the University and each present a unique area of expertise in the field. Each of our research groups and centres present academic members for each area of expertise.

For media enquires please contact comms@essex.ac.uk

Essex Facts
  • More than £8m in research funding for health and wellbeing projects since 2018
  • Over 4000 papers publishes relating to healthy living and wellbeing since 2010 (based on SDSN keyword set search on Scopus)
  • 8 Knowledge Transfer partnerships ongoing or in development within the healthcare sector

The Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing

Founded in 2022, the Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing (IPHW) launched in response to the needs of a generation which has experience first hand how vulnerable we are. 

The depth and breath of the four research pillars in which it is based

  • social, biological and environmental determinants of health
  • interventions, outcomes, evaluations and policy
  • wellbeing and health promotion
  • human rights, community participation and voice

highlight how the IPHW embeds complexity and interdisciplinary research in its foundations. Instead of sitting in silos, we work together to further understanding of interconnections and potential advances.

Find out more about the Institute for Public Health and Wellbeing.

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The IPHW is an inclusive space fostering dialogue across a community of researchers, stakeholders and interested parties
Professor Mariachiara Di Cesare Director, INstitute of Public Health and Wellbeing

News and case studies

Research Impact and Insight Case Studies
Impact: Protecting rights in mental health and social care
Impact: Realising the right to health
Impact: Evaluating child fitness to improve health of youngsters
Impact: How we unlocked silos in health and social care
Impact: Early detection of bowel cancer through screening
Impact: Essex research leads to safer lighting
Impact: Giving voice to military veterans with PTSD
Insight: Mental capacity law in practice, in the Court of Protection
Insight: Getting under the skin with biomarkers
Impact: Improving the lives of refugees around the world
Impact: Transforming the lives of those suffering visual stress
Impact: Improving the lives of military veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Impact: Understanding powerlessness, understanding patients
Insight: Depression. A couples’ disease?
Impact: How we started the green exercise revolution
Insight: Can we do more to support birth mothers after a child's taken into care?
Insight: Blood, blood, glorious (artificial) blood
Insight: Combating myths about unemployment and weight
Insight: Ticking time bomb of our children’s falling fitness
Looking to revolutionise prostate cancer treatment
Insight: Helping improve early diagnosis for cancer
Impact: Shaping the global debate on mental health law reform
News
News: Westminster seeks insights from autonomy expert
News: Voices from the past inform new health and wellbeing education toolki
News: Premiere for film about teenage life during a pandemic
News: Moving memoir explores the trauma of the Kindertransport
News: Baby loss study will shed light on workplace experiences
News: Book reveals Maoist China health campaigns were “poor and mismanaged”
News: Digital technologies pose a threat to human rights of older people
News: New report highlights importance of affordable housing, social security and libraries to Colchester residents
News: COVID-19 research on vulnerable communities proves influential
News: Duty of Care team responds to draft Online Safety Bill
News: How the Aphasia iCafe is helping people across the world
News: Improving the support network for people with brain injuries
News: Open Medical and Essex developing software solution for future of healthcare sector
News: Twitter tells story of COVID-19’s impact on mental health
News: AI project to help stroke patients in rural Mexico
News: Essex part of £1.5 million Alzheimer’s research project
News: Ground-breaking study explores gardening as exercise
News: Building broadband in the brain' could beat strokes
News: Exploring impact of community gardening on loneliness
News: Depression and anxiety spiked in pregnant women during the pandemic
News: Food labels should be standardised to help people make healthier choices
News: Secret to a happy retirement revealed by psychologists
News: Everyone eats three extra burgers a day than they admit
News: NHS vaccine texts looked like scams to more than 50 per cent of recipients
News: Trial confirms working fewer hours reduces staff stress and improves sleep
News: Change in rugby regulation in a bid to increase participation
News: Least fit child 20 years ago would be among today’s fittest
News: Remote working means longer hours not higher efficiency – report finds
News: Unemployment calculator will help reduce mass unemployment
News: University of Essex Co-Hosts International Social Prescribing Network Conference
News: Digital tools are key to combatting loneliness say Essex academics
News: How accent prejudice reproduces inequalities
News: Essex trauma expert giving ongoing support to Ukrainian health and education professionals
News: Free courses on mental health in children
News: Health institute signs first international partnership
News: Deputy Director joins public health and wellbeing team
News: Provide announces new fellowship at Institute launch
News: Launch event for new health and wellbeing research institute
News: Director appointed to lead new Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing

Research from across the University

Centres and Institutes (10)

Browse our research centres and institutes, where innovative ideas meet and discplinary boundaries are crossed.

Centres and Institutes

Centre for Childhood Studies

Explore our research centre, the Centre for Childhood Studies part of the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/childhood-studies

Centres and Institutes

Centre for Computational Intelligence

The Centre for Computational Intelligence is an interdisciplinary research centre based at the University of Essex.

https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/computational-intelligence

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Research groups and areas (21)

Discover the breadth of interdisciplinary research at Essex through our various groups, areas, hubs and more.

Research Group

Artificial Intelligence research group, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Our Artificial Intelligence group carries out research in to how artificial intelligence programmes make decisions, and the systems which assist in such decisions.

https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/computer-science-and-electronic-engineering/research/artificial-intelligence

Research Group

Assessment and management of neuro-developmental and acquired disorders, School of Health and Social Care

Our research group focuses on improving the assessment and management of neurorehabilitation and developmental disorders, such as rehabilitation after a stroke, and support for children with Special Educational Needs.

https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/health-and-social-care/research/neuro-developmental-and-acquired-disorders

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Research projects (22)

Delve deeper into our research to explore aims, findings and outputs of our projects.

Research Project

A nature-based intervention to improve mental health

A nature based intervention to improve mental health. Research Project. A nature-based intervention to improve mental health. Principal Investigators. Dr Nicholas Cooper. Professor Sheina Orbell. Dr Mike Rogerson. A nature based intervention to

https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/a-nature-based-intervention-to-improve-mental-health

Research Project

AI4HEALTHSEC

AI4healthsec. Research Project. AI4HEALTHSEC. Principal Investigator. Professor Haris Mouratidis. Menu. The health sector is one of the biggest benefactors of the improvements in artificial intelligence and digitisation. Huge amounts of health data

https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ai4healthsec

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Explore our Public Health and Wellbeing blogs
An Apple a Day: How to Address the Great Global Public Health and Well-Being Challenges
Professor Jules Pretty, Professor Mariachiara Di Cesare
05 April 2023
Building Research Partnerships to Understand our Place in the World
Dr Maria Filippetti
23 January 2023
Investing in the future of health and social care
Mark Heasman
06 April 2022
Read all our public health and wellbeing blogs
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