Department of Preventive and Social Medicine

I spent the week of 4th March with Dr Alex MacMillan and her colleagues in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, the largest department in the university. It shares many features with the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, but has a few noticeable differences. One was the greater emphasis on ‘public health’ rather than ‘epidemiology’.

My talk to the department was actually the following week, as another seminar was already organised for this week.

Not all notices in the department resembled those in London:

As in UCL’s Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health and the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care in which it sits, PSM has a number of separate research teams, with a wide range of research areas, including the Cancer Society Social and Behavioural Sciences unit; AIDS epidemiology and surveillance; injury prevention; the Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit; CHeST, the Centre for Health Systems Research; and the Centre for International Health, among others.