Health Consequences of Population Change

Launched in 2001, the Health Consequences of Population Change (HCPC) Programme was a five-year, £65 million targeted initiative, to support research aimed at documenting and understanding large-scale changes in populations in the developing world, and assessing their impact on public health. This programme continued on from the Trust's previous Populations Studies five-year initiative launched in 1995.

The HCPC Programme supported research that addressed the relationship between five key drivers of population change - growth, migration, urbanisation, youth and ageing, and lifestyle changes - and the changing pattern of disease in the less developed world. The Programme also aimed to inform policy makers, by supporting research that tackled questions on how changes in the health and wellbeing of populations impact on the delivery of healthcare, in resource-poor environments.

Major awards

Through the HCPC Programme, large awards were made to several regional centres of excellence, which act as regional foci of research activity and contribute to the development of local research capacity.

South Africa

Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies

South-east Asia

Middle East

Center for Research on Population and Health, American University in Beirut
Social Research Center, American University in Cairo

Latin America and the Caribbean

Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
Centro Centroamericano de Población, Universidad de Costa Rica
Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies