Our research is organised around the following themes:
Epidemiological surveillance: a major national programme monitoring adults and young people who are in contact with drug and alcohol treatment services;
Visualisation: the creation of knowledge exchange platforms that communicate complex results for policy and practice;
Outcomes research: on-going analysis of the largest ever drug treatment cohort in the UK;
Policy evaluation: assessment of impact following national introduction of payment by results pilot schemes;
Prevalence estimation: utilisation of multi-indicator methods to assess prevalence;
Health indicators: development of global indicators/ indices of urban health;
Understanding of addiction harms: national integration of quantitative datasets.