Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics (CHICAS)

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Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics (CHICAS)

CHICAS research focus is on statistical and epidemiological methods and their implementation in open-source software. We have long-standing expertise in spatial and spatio-temporal methods, population health data research, infectious disease modelling and design of field studies. CHICAS has been designated as the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Geostatistical Methods for Neglected Tropical Disease Research.

Lead: Dr Emanuele Giorgi

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Research Excellence Framework 2021

The Faculty is pleased to announce that in the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF2021), 91% of our Research was judged to be world-leading or internationally excellent, and 100% of our research environment was rated world-leading.

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Divisions

The Faculty of Health and Medicine's multidisciplinary research and teaching operates across three divisions, delivering high quality teaching and research with national and international impact.

  • Biomedical and Life Sciences

    The Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences is responsible for coordinating biomedical teaching and research activities at Lancaster.

  • Health Research

    The Division of Health Research specialises in postgraduate study and high-quality research with national and international impact on health and wellbeing policy.

  • Lancaster Medical School

    In addition to offering our medical degree and course in sports science, Lancaster Medical School conducts research into biomedicine, social and ethical aspects of health and medicine, and medical education.

Public events at the Faculty of Health and Medicine

From public lecture series, to student-focused webinars, there's always something going on at the Faculty of Health and Medicine.

30th Apr

Vaccination is a huge global health success, so why do people hesitate?

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 7:00pm to 8:00pm
16th May

Fantastic beams and how to make them: Shaped light for biomedical imaging

Thursday 16 May 2024, 7:00pm to 8:00pm
20th May

Lancaster University Exchange

Monday 20 May 2024, 5:30pm to 8:00pm
4th Jun

What next for the climate change culture wars?

Tuesday 4 June 2024, 7:00pm to 8:00pm
29th Jun

Undergraduate Open Day

Saturday 29 June 2024, 9:00am to 4:00pm

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Lancaster University is involved in a novel initiative to develop a medication management system for up to 2,500 people receiving home-based care.

 
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Emotional toll on UK care home staff during COVID-19 pandemic

The challenges faced by care home staff during the COVID-19 pandemic and the strategies they used to cope are the topic of research led by Lancaster University.
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Lancaster University is working with a local NHS Trust to understand and improve the experiences of patients with advance care planning (ACP). 
Award winner Dr Steven Hall has also been invited to attend the CSPT annual conference in Ottawa

Award for Lancaster research into repurposed drugs for snakebites

Lancaster researcher Dr Steven Hall has won an award from the Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics for the best paper of the year.

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