Today marks ten years of the NIHR School for Public Health Research and the start of a series of news, events and stories to celebrate the impact of the School since it was launched on 1st April 2012.
Follow the hashtag #NIHRSPHR_10 on Twitter and check out our website to find out more over the coming months.
A highlight of the #NIHRSPHR_10 celebrations will be our Annual Scientific Meeting on 23rd & 24th June 2022. Find out more here.
We will bring you stories from SPHR researchers, trainees, our practice colleagues and our public partners as they tell us what the School means to them.
Established in April 2012, the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) is a partnership between nine leading academic centres with excellence in applied public health research in England. The School brings together its members’ expertise in a collaborative working relationship – to ensure emphasis on what works practically, can be applied across the whole country and better meets the needs of policy makers, practitioners and the public. SPHR has been contracted for a further five years and is in its third phase of funding, following an open competition, the membership of the School from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2027 is confirmed as:
- University of Bristol
- University of Cambridge
- University of Exeter – new member
- Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health (Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside Universities)
- Imperial College London
- Liverpool and Lancaster Universities Collaboration for Public Health (LiLaC)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- PHRESH, a collaboration between the Universities of Birmingham, Warwick and Keele – new member
- University of Sheffield