Population health research at King’s spans multiple Faculties. Our expertise includes mental health, women & children’s health, cancer screening and diagnosis, stroke, data science for population health, health systems and applied health research, genetic epidemiology and global health research. We also have expertise in complex interventions, multimorbidity and medications in primary care and an increasing body of work on public health messaging and its relationship to effective public health interventions and policy.

These pages showcase our combined strengths, including key people and research groups, key projects & significant awards and our datasets and platforms.

Datasets & Platforms

King’s supports a number and variety of large-scale cohort studies. These provide a rich source of longitudinal phenotypic, biological and social data that can be used for studying health and wellbeing throughout the life course. The ability to link to health and other routine records, collect data and samples from consenting participants and apply cutting-edge imaging and omics technologies, places researchers at King’s in an ideal position to fully capitalise on these major research assets.

The ‘Activity’ tab below provides some more information on our datasets, bioresources and platforms. Where possible information on how to access them is provided through their information on the HDRUK (Health Data Research UK) gateway. This Gateway also provides searchable information on other datasets available across the UK with information about how to access them.