Research subjects
The Department of Public Health Sciences conducts research within a range of areas, primarily in the field of health inequality, which revolves around systematic differences in health and survival between individuals and between socially defined groups, as well as issues related to alcohol, drugs, and gambling.
The department hosts two research centers, CHESS (Centre for Health Equity Studies) and SoRAD (Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs).
Our research areas
PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES
Public health sciences concerns the study of public health and its determinants. As a research subject, public health sciences mean trying to understand health from the single individual to the whole society, why illness arises and how health can be promoted.
