About us

The Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health (MUCH) is part of the Institute of Population Health within the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre at the University of Manchester.

Our mission

Our mission is to perform world-class research applicable to populations locally, nationally and globally. We have a number of international and local projects.

MUCH’s director, Dr Arpana Verma, is also the president of the European Public Health Association, Urban Health section.

MUCH has links with many world leading organisations including:

As well as these links, through the many research projects delivered by MUCH, we now work with a global consortium of researchers that we work with: