Institute for Health Research

Research, scholarship and knowledge exchange for lifelong health and wellbeing

A shared interest in health-related research across all Faculties.

The Institute for Health Research (IHR) is a reflection of the vibrancy of LJMU’s research culture and its commitment to undertake multidisciplinary research with the potential to improve health locally, nationally and internationally and to impact on health procedures, policy and practice.

COVID-19 Research Activities

Our vision is to establish the IHR as a world-leading institute for health research. We aim to be at the forefront of research from a local to a global level.

The aim of the IHR is to improve human health across the life course by undertaking research, scholarship and knowledge transfer towards a better understanding of disease, healthy behaviours, the prevention of illness, therapeutics and novel technologies and the improvement of community and hospital-based healthcare.

The key themes are:

• understanding and changing behaviour
• understanding and treating disease and illness
• educating the workforce via evidence based practice 

The IHR is a hub for all activities related to health including: research, education, knowledge-transfer and collaborative partnerships across LJMU and with key external partners. Our research activities are aligned within individual Interest Groups and supported by four cross cutting themes 

The IHR also has some cross-cutting themes that run in across all research activities:

• Social Prescribing
• Digital Health and Technology
• International health
• Systematic Reviews

The Institute facilitates collaboration and new thinking from across this wide range of LJMU Research Institutes, Centres and School research groups: