With the Department of Primary Health Care, we form the Division of Public Health & Primary Health Care which is part of the University of Oxford's Medical Sciences Division and we are based at the Old Road Campus in Headington, Oxford.

We have a distinguished record of research and in the last two Research Assessment Exercises in 1996 and 2001, we received, as part of the University of Oxford's community-based clinical subjects submission, the highest possible rating of 5*.

We have a number of renowned research groups and units providing a strong environment of multi-disciplinary research, which includes epidemiology of cancer and HIV, occupational epidemiology, epidemiology of diabetes and dyslipidaemias and health status and outcomes measurement. Our Head of Department is Professor Harold Jaffe, a prominent specialist in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS. The Deputy Head of Department and Director of Graduate Studies is Professor Ray Fitzpatrick who has an international reputation in the field of health status and outcomes measurement.

In addition to our research activities, we are home to the MSc in Global Health Science. Students also come here to undertake research for DPhil and MSc degrees. Teaching is provided for undergraduates reading for Medicine and Public Health, doctors and specialists in training.