Summary of key findings
Contact points
Department of Health
Survey Section
Room 451C
Skipton House
London Road
London SE1 6LH
Telephone 020 7972 5718
Website www.doh.gov.uk/public/summary.htm
National Centre for Social Research
35 Northampton Square
London EC1V 0AX
Telephone 020 7250 1866
Website www.natcen.ac.uk
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Royal Free and University College Medical School
1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT
Telephone 020 7679 5646
Website www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology/hssrg
ESRC Data Archive
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex CO4 3SQ
Telephone 01206 872001
Website www.data-archive.ac.uk
National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)
The National Centre for Social Research is the largest independent social research institute in Britain, specialising in social survey and qualitative research for the development and evaluation of policy. NatCen specialises in research in public policy fields such as health, housing, employment, crime, education and political and social attitudes. Projects include ad hoc and continuous surveys, using face-to-face, telephone and postal methods; many use advanced applications of computer assisted interviewing. NatCen has over 240 staff, a national panel of over 1,000 interviewers and 200 nurses who work on health-related surveys.
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at
the Royal Free and
University College Medical School
Including the International Centre for Health and Society the Department houses over 120 staff, in eight main research groups, namely: the Joint Health Surveys Unit; Whitehall II study; Eurodiab, investigating diabetes; Dental Public Health; MRC National Survey of Health and Development; ICRF funded Health Behaviour Unit; Psychobiology Unit; and Public Health Research Group. Its research programme is concerned particularly with social factors in health and illness, including longitudinal studies of cardiovascular disease (Whitehall studies) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA); international studies of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and contraception; the socio-dental indicators of need; and the socio-economic and policy implications of an ageing population.
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