Cambridge Institute of Public Health (CIPH), at the University of Cambridge, is a world leader in public health. We are a membership organisation whose members include outstanding public health academics from across the University and public health professionals working outside of academia.

Our mission

We are our members, and our collective mission is to:

Improve the health of the public through research, teaching and analysis to promote well-being, prevent disease
and reduce health inequalities 

In public health and population sciences, our members:

produce world leading research

educate scientists, clinicians and public health professionals

analyse and interpret population health evidence and data

lead the way with novel methodological approaches

inform and support health policy development and implementation

Our strategic aims

CIPH contributes to achieving our collective mission in the following ways.

We are a:

gateway to public health at Cambridge, providing an overview of what’s happening in public health across the University, highlighting our member’s research and latest discoveries

facilitator of new research collaborations, between our members, our cross-University PublicHealth@Cambridge Strategic Research Network and our globally located partner institutions

generator of impact, through our work with public health stakeholders outside of academia, including policymakers and practitioners

producer of future leaders in public health, providing multi-disciplinary course content and external expertise to our public health students and researchers, running public health fellowships & career development events 

resource hub for our members, providing them with funding and communications resources