Why are some people healthier than others? What makes an environment healthy? These big questions about Environment and Health lead researchers down different paths, from the molecular biologist exploring what triggers a cancer, to the science policy expert exploring different ways of understanding risk in the food chain.
What is special about Sussex is its interdisciplinary strength in rallying researchers across the university to work together, creating new insights and approaches on problems that transcend single disciplines, such as: what is the impact of the environment on ecosystems and health? How do we communicate ambiguity and uncertain scientific knowledge? How do targets and regulation affect the outcomes and experience of health care? Within Environment and Health research, mathematicians work with biologists on tumour growth and medics with informatics specialists on the use of medical records.