Implementation of health promotion in schools – insights from a realist review
School-based interventions and campaigns are used to promote health and address a wide variety of public health problems.
Health and wellbeing effects of participating in conservation or environmental enhancement activities – findings from SPHR systematic review
Contact with the environment is thought to have a range of impacts on health and well-being, from better mental health amongst those living closer to green spaces to providing a place for healthy physical activity.
Fuse transforming the ‘foodscape’
New SPHR-funded research is underway to develop and test the feasibility of interventions to promote healthier take-away, pub and restaurant food.
SPHR ‘Men in Sheds’ research findings published on Age UK website
The state of older men's health is a greatly overlooked public health challenge.
SPHR’s UCL lead receives damehood in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Anne M Johnson (MD FMedSci FRCP FFPH FRCGP), Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, has been awarded a damehood in the Queen's Birthday Honours for 2013.
SPHR launches innovative scheme to evaluate local public health initiatives
SPHR’s goal is to produce high quality evidence needed by public health practice to improve the health of the population and help reduce health inequalities.
SPHR inaugural Annual Scientific Meeting held in Sheffield
The School's inaugural Annual Scientific Meeting was held on 10th October 2012 in Sheffield.
Leading the way – pioneering School for Public Health Research launches
The new National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Public Health Research has launched.