Public Mental Health (PMH) is an international priority and a major challenge for public health practitioners. However, the evidence regarding effective interventions is limited. The aim of the PMH programme is to generate high-quality evidence to improve the mental health of children, young people, and adults which supports the work of practitioners in public mental health.
The public mental health programme works across all eight members of the school, the research programmes, and the three cross-cutting themes with a particular emphasis on health inequalities and the economic impact of interventions.
SPHR provided funding for initial research projects (2016-2019), and then approved two phases of research for the PMH programme (2019-2022). The programme has also created a PMH virtual network which brings together members of the public, practitioners, policy makers, and academics who share an interest in public mental health research.
The aim of this project is to investigate potential measures of social exclusion across England and explore how these measures are related to mental health problems. This project will also model what might happen if a public health intervention or policy was able to reduce the level of social exclusion in a community.
January 2020 – April 2021
The aim of the project is to assess the feasibility of running an intensive resilience building course for parents to support their children’s mental health.
January 2020 - January 2021
This is the fourth work package in the Public Mental Health programme and focuses on identifying promising public mental health interventions which improve mental health in adults.
March 2019 - September 2020
The aim of this work is to identify interventions or changes within educational settings that have the potential to improve mental health outcomes and inequalities for all young people.
March 2019 - September 2020
The aim of this project is to develop, validate and agree a suite of core outcome sets appropriate for use in evaluative public mental health research.
March 2019 - June 2021
This project aims to explore what underpins public mental health and use this as a foundation to develop a conceptual framework to support the work of public health practitioners and researchers.
March 2019 - September 2020
Coping Through Football is an innovative project in North East London that offers football coaching sessions to aid the recovery of young people and adults experiencing mental health problems.
May 2016 - July 2018
This research project will compare stop smoking support services offered to people with recognised mental health problems and the general population.
August 2017 - August 2018
This work aims to explore how current changes to the role of housing officers at social housing providers has affected the health and wellbeing of residents, local communities and on other local services.
April 2018 - March 2019
This research project will look at parenting interventions which may be adapted for non-substance misusing parents and caregivers within families where one parent misuses substances.
April 2018 - September 2019
