From basic research discovering the causes of disease, through to evaluating novel ways of delivering care to the most vulnerable people in society, the Plymouth Institute of Health and Care Research (PIHR) is a thriving community that conducts adventurous world-leading research with the explicit purpose of improving the health and care of the populations we serve. At the heart of PIHR’s mission is a desire to solve the problems that really matter to people.
Our mission is to promote an interdisciplinary, inclusive enterprise with a real commitment to working across boundaries in order to meet the needs of the people of the South West and other rural, coastal, and deprived communities worldwide.
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Research themes
Featured research project
Designing Inclusive Landscape Structures for Myopic and Low Vision Children in Educational Environments
SHAP(E)ing Health Collaborations
Health research news
- Study suggests real-time feedback in hotel showers could help the tourism industry cut water use 16 April 2024
- £1.2 million project explores whether brain state alters the effects of ultrasound 15 April 2024
- Dementia expert invited to 10 Downing Street to share latest insight 26 March 2024
- University spearheads work to develop health research skills 20 March 2024
- Laboratory model enables researchers to explore the mouth’s response to oral disease 20 March 2024