Exploring how social connections
and behaviours affect our health

We are the Social Biobehavioural Research Group at University College London, a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre.

We investigate how social connections and behaviours impact people’s health. By conducting cutting-edge, cross disciplinary research, our aim is to determine how our health is influenced by both social ‘assets’ and ‘deficits’. These include social relationships, arts, culture and leisure (assets), as well as loneliness, isolation, and social restrictions (deficits).

Our work looks at the “basic science” of how social assets and deficits influence health outcomes using epidemiological and molecular approaches and developing new theory, and the “applied science” of the impact of community and healthcare interventions and policies on individuals and societies.