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Welcome to the Faculty of Health and Medicine

We are a multi-disciplinary leader in biomedical and health research, with particular specialisms in palliative care, mental health and health policy research, medical statistics and health data science.

Find a Course

  • Undergraduate Degrees

    Flexible degrees with options for professional accreditation, study abroad and placements in industry.

  • Postgraduate Courses

    Full and part-time courses are available, by on-campus study or blended learning.

  • PhDs and Professional Doctorates

    Study for a PhD alongside world-leading academics at the forefront of their field, or gain your professional MD or DClinPsy qualification.

  • Continuing Professional Development

    Opportunities for those working in the biomedical sector, the health care sector and allied professions.

Research

We pride ourselves on the real-world impact of our research and its practical applications for human and societal benefit, including ageing and palliative care, infectious disease, and mental health.

  • Research in the Faculty

    Our unique blend of internationally acclaimed expertise allows us to approach problems from novel directions.

  • Research Strategy

    Research activity is integral to the function of the Faculty of Health and Medicine.

  • Research Ethics

    All of our research is conducted to our comprehensive ethical guidelines.

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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.

REF2021

Work With Us

We believe advances in healthcare are achieved through strong mutually beneficial partnerships, working with external organisations to support research, innovation and professional development in health and medicine.

Health Innovation Campus
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Welcome to the Health Innovation Campus

The new Health Innovation Campus at Lancaster University brings together industry, research partners, health and care providers, the voluntary sector and local authorities to create an innovation eco-system.

The Health Innovation Campus is all about collaboration, co-design and co-production. Its purpose is to develop sustainable solutions for some of the most important health and care challenges we face as a society. Work at the Health Innovation Campus will take a solution-led, place-based approach to addressing health and social inequalities and their impact on wellness, with an emphasis on innovative thinking and disruption.

Health Innovation Campus

  • Innovation in Healthcare

    We work with the NHS, public sector, industry and voluntary sector organisations to develop solutions to health care problems; innovating for the benefit of patients, the NHS, industry and the wider economy.

  • The Faculty responds to the pandemic

    The Faculty of Health and Medicine has been at the forefront of the University's response to the Covid pandemic. From medical students to virologists, you can read some of their stories here.

  • Knowledge Exchange Strategy

    A novel platform across Lancashire and Cumbria for supporting knowledge exchange between Lancaster University and the NHS, introduced by the Collaborative Partnerships initiative in 2009.

  • Athena Swan

    The Faculty of Health and Medicine holds the Athena Swan Silver Award recognising our commitment to advancing the careers of women in higher education and research.

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.

Lancaster Success Programme

We want to ensure that all our students have the chance to benefit from a range of experiences available at Lancaster. Students from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented at university are not always aware of the breadth of support opportunities available to them. 

For more information please get in touch on outreach@lancaster.ac.uk or 01524 595232.

Lancaster Success Programme

Latest News

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.

9th Dec

Patterns of alcohol consumption in older adults – evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Friday 9 December 2022, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
15th Dec

DSI Christmas Showcase

Thursday 15 December 2022, 3:30pm to 5:00pm

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£266,000 award to investigate disability inclusive remote and hybrid working

Lancaster University has been awarded £266,000 for research into ‘Designing inclusive remote and hybrid working to support disabled workers’. 
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Developing digital support tools to help patients navigate cancer treatments

Lancaster University researchers are helping to develop new digital support tools that will help transform patients’ experiences around making decisions about their cancer treatments.
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Lancashire’s first student Community First Responder team

Twelve medical students from Lancaster University have formed Lancashire’s first student Community First Responder (CFR) scheme after training with the North West Ambulance Service.
Dr Jonathan Read; Professor Christopher Jewell

Lancaster statisticians recognised for pandemic modelling

Lancaster University statisticians are being recognised for their work supporting the UK’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Lancaster Medical School shares in global funding to combat malaria

Lancaster University is part of the Malaria Modellers in Africa consortium (MaModAfrica) which has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 

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