Centre for Public Health

The Centre for Public Health enables, facilitates, identifies and disseminates public health research in co-production across the University and externally with commissioners and communities - on a local, national and international scale.

Research staff have achieved national and international prominence in public health interventions and disease prevention, and translational public health, working alongside public health organisations to have a real-world impact. Significant research covers major global health issues including oral health, adult and childhood obesity.

These themes are underpinned by strong methodological expertise in qualitative and quantitative research methods, systematic reviewing, service and intervention evaluation, intervention development, co-production, and embedded research.

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Leadership team

Professor Emma Giles

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Research at Teesside

Dr Lawrence Nnyanzi

Our research community is truly diverse, not only in the demographic composition but in ideology. This diversity makes it possible to forge collaborative partnerships, enabling less-experienced researchers to work with world-class experts.

Dr Lawrence Nnyanzi, Senior Lecturer in Research Methods

Impact case studies

Curbing childhood obesity

Shaping UK Government health policy and UK and USA guidelines on the prevention and treatment of obesity in young people

Oral health: A balancing act

Informing global approaches to community tooth decay prevention programmes

Community Food Organisations can play a major role in combatting food poverty

Why Community Food Organisations deserve a place in the Child of the North APPG report

Across the North of England, families are facing a dual crisis: rising food insecurity and growing food waste. In response, Community Food Organisations (CFOs) - like social supermarkets and pantries - are stepping up in powerful, community led ways. These aren’t just places to get food. They’re places of dignity, connection, and hope.

Fuse Associate Director Amelia Lake, Professor of Public Health Nutrition at Teesside University

Fuse funding continues through School for Public Health Research

Researchers at Teesside University will continue to benefit from a collaboration which brings together the leading public health research expertise