Setting
Together with the IMS Metabolic Research Laboratories we form the Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, where our main offices and laboratories are located.
Being embedded in the IMS is critical to our aspiration to follow up associations between exposures and metabolic disease outcomes to determine possible causality and mechanisms.
We are also a part of Cambridge Population Health Sciences, a three department partnership of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care and the MRC Biostatistics Unit. Collectively, the Partnership pursues a wide range of research across epidemiology, biostatistics, population health and primary care, and delivers the Masters courses in Population Health Sciences.
Organisation
Our research objectives are delivered by a number of scientific programmes, supported by a shared infrastructure of stuides and research operations team.
This structure provides an efficient and effective platform to enable us to improve understanding of the causes of obesity and diabetes and how we might better prevent them. More about our research.
Studies
IMS Epidemiology research programmes are supported by a core set of prospective cohort studies, detailed quantitative trait metabolic studies, case-control studies and trials that serve both aetiological and preventive purposes. This shared resource enables data from individual studies to be analysed by many programmes to identify trends and links in different areas of interest. Explore all our studies
Research operations
Underpinning our scientific programmes and studies are specialist Research Operations teams. These specialist functions include data management, information technology, sample management and high-throughput analyses, statistics and data science, physical activity and anthropometric measurement, dietary assessment and nutritional biomarker analysis, study coordination, field epidemiology, and communications. More about Research Operations.
Cambridge Epidemiology and Trial Unit (CETU)
IMS Epidemiology also leads the Cambridge Epidemiology and Trial Unit (CETU), an NIHR accredited clinical trials unit. CETU focuses on investigator-led randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and other well designed studies that evaluate interventions to improve healthcare and public health. We have expertise in evaluating interventions ranging from individual- and group-level behavioural interventions, through to policy interventions. More about the CETU
Networks and strategic initiatives
IMS Epidemiology leads and hosts a number of strategic initiates, networks and projects with a diverse web and social media presence. Find out more.