Lifelong health and wellbeing

Health and well-being are about more than just the physical, which is why our work spans all three Queen Mary faculties: medicine and dentistry, science and engineering, and humanities and social sciences.

Whether it’s ground-breaking bioscience research on lifelong health; the real-life impact of better regulation to prevent gambling harms; using film as an HIV public health tool in Sub-Saharan Africa; or creating a pioneering new drug to treat breast cancer, this is research that improves the health and well-being of people across the globe.

Understanding the issues of food security in Zimbabwe

In the southern eastern country of Zimbabwe, a staggering 90 per cent of children aged six months to two years are not getting enough to eat.

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Feed the children – understanding the issues of food security in Zimbabwe

In the southern eastern country of Zimbabwe, a staggering 90 per cent of children aged six months to two years are not getting enough to eat. Indeed, 60 per cent of the total population do not have secure access to food.

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Hard graft: How Queen Mary research created a landmark range of synthetic bone-graft materials

Hailed as one of the most important feats of British engineering in the last 50 years, researchers have developed a range of cost-effective synthetic bone graft materials – called Inductigraft™ in the UK and AltaPore™ in the US.
Professor Foster leads efforts in England to eliminate Hepatitis C virus

Professor Foster’s research has shaped national and international guidelines on hepatitis C treatment and screening – making significant progress in eliminating the virus in the UK and elsewhere.

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Can you say how you feel? Exploring the history of emotions

The Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘Living With Feeling: Emotional Health in History, Philosophy, and Experience’ has featured in an exhibition at the Royal College of Nursing.

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