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- Research will inform support services for women experiencing homelessness
- The way the government talks about ‘childhood obesity’ is flawed. Should we even be talking about it at all…?
- Cuts to Sure Start spending linked to increased childhood obesity
- Realist-informed study of co-located community interventions in support of mental health in older adults
- Exploring and understanding access to community-based mental health and addiction services for severe and multiple disadvantage service users and providers in Newcastle and Gateshead in times of extreme adversity
- Blog: The mental health of the nation has never been so under threat
- SPHR Experts appointed as NIHR Senior Investigators
- Equal England: Health Inequalities Knowledge Exchange Network
- Local government interactions with harmful commodity industries: an assessment of the nature, extent and need for guidance
- Knowledge exchange: engagement and translation of learning points into action and impact with stakeholders. (WSA KE)
- Improving methodology for place and community-based public health natural experiments and interventions (WSA WP3)
- Places & communities – What is known? Stakeholder views and research synthesis (WSA WP1)
- Blog: Have you haddock enough?
- Blog: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try and try again…
- More than enough on our plates: Tackling the obesity crisis by shrinking fish and chips
- Major new report connects North’s poor health with poor productivity
- Behind the research: Louis Goffe
- Equal North: Taking forward the Due North research agenda
- Supporting Public Health Practice to reduce health inequalities: a review of SPHR research evidence
- Review of Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme (PHPES 2013-17)
- Supporting community engagement actions to reduce health inequalities: co-production of learning materials from the Communities in Control study
- Evaluation of Sheffield City Council Housing+ Programme
- Exposing the impact of advice services on health and inequalities
- Health Inequalities Research Programme: Communities in Control Study
- What factors make ‘age-friendly environments’ effective?
- Scheme’s success at stopping mums-to-be smoking
- Digital alcohol advice may help to reduce drinking
- Intervention impact on North East smoking in pregnancy
- New PHPES Evaluation: ways to wellness
- How are priority-setting tools used in local government?
- Evaluation of NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme begins
- Phase 2 of the Communities in Control Study gets underway
- One in five UK adults eat meals out or order takeaways in each week
- Fuse transforming the ‘foodscape’
- Category: Imperial College London
- Category: LiLaC
- Evidence given by David Taylor-Robinson at Covid inquiry
- Local Resilience Forums and lessons from Covid-19 response: a pilot study
- Introduction of Universal Credit linked to increase in psychological distress
- Behind the research: Dr Emma Halliday
- Age friendly cities – evaluation tool
- Professor Margaret Whitehead becomes Dame in New Year Honours
- Age Friendly Cities – Highlights from end-of-project stakeholder workshop
- Modelling physical activity and movement in office buildings: Active buildings
- Mandatory targets to cut salt in food would reduce excess heart disease deaths in deprived areas
- Exhibition explores older people’s perception of living in Liverpool
- Making cities better places to grow old in: SPHR-funded PhD study at LiLaC
- SPHR ‘Men in Sheds’ research findings published on Age UK website
- Category: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Category: PHRESH
- Category: University College London
- Category: University of Bristol
- Category: University of Cambridge
- Category: University of Exeter
- Category: University of Sheffield
- Category: Fuse
- Category: News and Events
- NIHR SPHR PhD by publication scheme for SPHR researchers
- Summer Internship Scheme in Public Health Research
- Coming soon: Call for applications for PhD studentships
- Behind the research: Tricia Jessiman
- Behind the research: Dr Fiona Duncan
- Cookies, coffee and co-production during Covid
- New NIHR Payment guidance for members of the public considering involvement in research
- NIHR Benefits Advice Service for public involvement in research
- Launch of Summer Internship Scheme in Public Health Research
- Achieving equitable public services through community empowerment: Workshop recording now available
- Annual Scientific Meeting: Postponed
- Chief Scientific Advisor praises SPHR research responding to local needs
- Category: Blog
- Keep your friends close: social support and networks in public mental health
- Behind the internship: Nina Buxton-Madgin
- Exploring the intersection of environmental and public health: a transdisciplinary journey
- When money doesn’t buy happiness – a look into what really affects subjective well-being in UK low-income communities
- Katherine Parkin: My career journey so far
- Putting lived experience at the heart of research
- From Awareness to Action: My Pathway into Public Health Research
- “Protect trans youth”: parental support as a public mental health intervention
- Mohn Centre Community Film Premiers in White City
- South West – School Health Research Network – a collaborative findings workshop
- Beyond taste and nutrient content: Ultra-Processed Foods and their Impact on Adolescent Health in the UK
- Child of the North – two years on
- Summer school in Copenhagen: Learning how to create healthy cities
- My journey into public health and the psychological impacts of the physical environment
- Behind the transdisciplinary research: Jane Welch
- From Ivory Tower to the Public Square – reflections on public involvement and engagement in public health research
- Lights, Camera, Action! The launch of Public Involvement & Engagement in the PMH programme
- “Mind, Body, Soul” – the route to holistic care
- A PHRESH look at young people’s mental health
- Can digital services in the community improve public mental health and do they work for everyone?
- Maximising informal volunteering as a community resource to support the mental health and wellbeing of adults across the life course – involving the public in public health research
- Children, young people and families – research at Exeter
- CYPF: National Children’s Bureau
- The importance of (risky) play: promoting child physical activity, mental health and family wellbeing
- CYPF spotlight on Imperial
- How living in a workless household affects children’s long-term health
- Understanding How School-Based Interventions Can Tackle LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health Inequality: A Realist Approach
- A poem by Margaret Ogden, SPHR public partner
- Behind the scenes: Emma McFadyen
- Guest blog: Developing red flags for suicide from linked information to better support clinical judgement and prevent young person suicide
- Guest blog: Getting Help for Self-Harm – Communities of Support
- Taking a settings perspective to prevent self-harm and suicide among young people: a new SPHR research project
- Development of a typology of how ‘harmful commodity industries’ interact with local governments in England
- The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools
- Behind the research: Dr Anna Le Gouais
- Behind the research: John Coggon
- LGBTQ+ Research and Involvement – what have we learnt?
- Everyone’s business: Understanding the commercial determinants of mental ill health
- Behind the research: David Troy
- Key findings from my school culture and mental health post-doc project
- The 2022 NIHR Doctoral training camp: Intensive but rewarding
- How we can support physical health for people living with severe mental illness
- Finding better ways to evidence and appreciate the role and work of Voluntary and Community Sector youth services
- What is the right amount of food for preschool children?
- Behind the research: Alex Lewington
- Is a picture truly worth a thousand words? A blog by Emma Adams
- Changing school culture to improve mental health
- Delivering community interventions to improve public mental health
- Visualising Public Mental Health
- ‘Buddies in Bloom’: the creation of a Buddy System for the SPHR Public Mental Health programme
- Dealing with the mental health crisis – the challenge of asking the experts!
- How do we improve diversity in research?
- Working together to tackle inequalities and inactivity
- Discussing ‘Tricky Topics’ with Young People at a Distance: the Challenges of Exploring Sensitive Subjects in Virtual Focus Groups
- Blog: Whatever their answer, double it and you should be close…
- Did children get their free school meals during lockdown?
- Summer school at home: Learning online and adapting research to reach the ‘hard to reach’
- Co-production – The new normal
- Blog: Are you making the most of your public health budget? There’s a tool for that
- Category: Events
- The power of storytelling for public and population health research
- Evaluations in the ‘Healthy places, healthy planet’ research programme
- NIHR SPHR Systems thinking webinar series
- NIHR SPHR Annual ResNet Meeting 2024
- Impacts of the UK Soft drinks industry levy on child health
- The first-ever evaluation of mental health and social outcomes of selective licensing schemes
- NIHR SPHR Annual Scientific Meeting 2023
- SPHR Alumni Meeting
- NIHR SPHR Trainee welcome
- NIHR Academy Members’ Conference 2022
- NIHR SPHR Annual ResNet Meeting 2022
- Early to mid-career workshop MRC/SPHR/NIHR Natural Experiment Guidance
- NIHR School for Public Health Research Annual Scientific Meeting 2022 *registration now open*
- NIHR School for Public Health Research Annual Scientific Meeting 2022 *registration now open*
- Social media and young adult mental health workshop
- Register now for the 4th meeting of the SPHR Public Partners Network (PAN)
- Webinar – Why and how to involve people living with dementia and learning disabilities in research
- Pragmatic use of Artificial Intelligence with Big Healthcare Data
- SPHR Natural Experiment Network online seminar: A quantitative framework for triangulating causal inference
- NIHR SPHR Trainee Annual Meeting: My career path workshop
- Diversity and involvement: whom to involve? Engaging and working with young people (recording available)
- Improving the lives of people with multiple long-term conditions through research Academy Members’ Conference 2021
- SPHR Natural Experiment Network online seminar – the STRIT project
- SPHR Natural Experiment Network online seminar – MRC/NIHR Complex Interventions Framework
- Register now for the 3rd meeting of the SPHR Public Partners Network (PAN)
- Building research capacity in and in partnership with Local Authorities
- Virtual workshop – How to incorporate equity into economic evaluations of public health interventions
- Virtual workshop – How to measure and report efficiency in economic evaluations of public health interventions
- NIHR SPHR Public Partners Network (PAN) Meeting
- NIHR School for Public Health Research Annual Scientific Meeting 2021
- NIHR School for Public Health Research Annual Scientific Meeting 2021
- Inaugural SPHR Network for the use of Natural Experiments in Public Health Symposium
- Ideas Incubator
- ResNet Meeting 2021: Registration now open
- Addressing loneliness in 16-25 year olds: What do we know and what do we need to know?
- NIHR SPHR-ARC PhD Peer Meet Up
- Exploring and discussing the relationships between inequality, chid poverty and children’s health outcomes
- NIHR Advanced Fellowships Interactive Session
- NIHR Schools Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Shared Learning Event
- Improving diversity in research
- NIHR SPHR & NIHR ARC joint PhD Student Welcome Event
- NIHR SPHR Places and Communities / Equal England Online Webinar
- NIHR SPHR PhD Student Annual Meeting
- Shaping Liverpool as a Child Friendly City: Research Showcase
- Public Partners Network Autumn Event
- Achieving equitable public services through the empowerment and influence of clients, citizens and communities
- Communications training: how to deliver a successful and engaging presentation online
- Communication training: content creation
- Practice Placements: Experiences and top tips
- NIHR Academy Members’ Conference 2020
- Engaging with our public involvement & engagement strategy: what this means for your research
- We’re putting local authority food outlet data on the map – what’s next?
- Public mental health virtual symposium
- Examining how ‘health inequalities’ take shape in professional practice: results from a meta-ethnographic review of existing research
- Online workshop: Leadership for equity
- Online workshop: Understandings of inequality
- Webinar: Evaluating complex systems approaches to improving health
- NIHR School for Public Health Research Annual Scientific Meeting 2020
- Supporting local use of public mental health outcome measures
- ‘Through our Eyes; Housing & Health’ Exhibition
- Evaluating the impact of licensing decisions on crime and public health
- Engaging the community in alcohol decision making
- Tackling the challenges of getting public health research evidence into policy and practice at a local level
- Student induction & welcome event
- Improving our diets: more freedom or more control?
- Equal North network: The welfare system and mental health
- NIHR School for Public Health Research Annual Scientific Meeting 2019
- Practice sharing: ethnicity, migration and health inequalities
- Fuse Quarterly Research Meeting: To Invest or Not to Invest?
- Category: Impact
- Impact case study – Integrating attention to ethnicity and migration within applied public health and health inequalities research
- Impact case study – Harnessing data to improve child health
- Category: Case Studies
- Impact case study – Evaluating the impact of the removal of ‘junk-food’ advertising on public transport networks in London
- Impact case study – Our school-based research
- Impact case study – Working in partnership with a peer researcher team to produce our public mental health research
- Impact case study – Raising awareness of inequalities in COVID-19
- Impact case study – The impact of reducing the cost to access local authority leisure facilities in the North West of England on health inequalities
- Impact case study – Supporting local authorities to make planning decisions that promote better health and reduce inequalities: hot food takeaways
- Impact case study – Schoolchildren who switch to walking or cycling may have a healthier body weight
- Impact case study – Alcohol research: Drink Less app
- Impact case study – Sex and relationship education (SRE)
- Impact case study – Helping mums-to-be quit smoking in the North East
- Impact case study – Influencing alcohol policy across England
- Category: News
- NIHR SPHR fellowships in public health research
- ResNet early career project funding – internal call now open
- NIHR SPHR PhD studentships in Public Health
- Collaborating to improve the public’s mental health
- Behind the research: Esther Curtin
- Behind the research: Hannah Scott
- NIHR Population Health Career Scientist Award
- NIHR SPHR welcomes new cohort of PhD students to the School
- Behind the research: Gillian Samuel
- Behind the research: Ruth Plackett
- Behind the research: Emily Widnall
- FOR EQUITY – a new web-resource
- NIHR SPHR Trainee Annual Meeting: My career path workshop
- NIHR SPHR PhD studentships 2022
- Developing your career with NIHR: Local Authority Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration (LA SPARC)
- NIHR Population Health Career Scientist Award
- NIHR launch call for new Health Determinants Research Collaborations
- Celebrating young peoples involvement and engagement with research
- Professor Kate Walters awarded Principal Investigator of the Year 2021
- Behind the research: Mario Martínez-Jiménez
- Cuts to local government funding in recent years cost lives, study finds
- Welcoming our NIHR SPHR & NIHR ARC joint PhD Students
- How is COVID-19 affecting children in the North of England?
- SPHR PhD Three-minute Thesis Competition
- Category: News
- Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Small Awards *call open*
- NIHR Three Research Schools awarded £10 million to deliver programme of prevention research
- From adversity into action, using your experience to help others
- Changes in depression, anxiety and stress over two decades
- Call for Outline Research Proposals – Dementia
- Exeter showcase event
- Unpacking levelling up and pandemic recovery – what are local authorities doing?
- Coming soon: Call for fellowship applications
- First of its kind review suggests climbing temperatures might be associated with poorer mental health outcomes
- Low Emission and Congestion Charge Zones linked with public health benefits
- Implementing School Health Research Networks in England to improve young people’s health and wellbeing
- Covid inquiry evidence by health inequality expert
- Worse mental health in women during COVID-19 pandemic associated with more experiences of loneliness
- NIHR SPHR Impact Accelerator Awards 2023
- Looking ahead: Collaboration and innovation for better public health – Annual Scientific Meeting 2023
- NIHR SPHR Annual ResNet Meeting 2023
- Poor self-esteem and body image drive weight gain and worse mental health in teenage years
- NIHR SPHR awards
- The impact of social media use on young people’s mental health
- Advanced Local Authority Fellowship (ALAF) Scheme
- SPHR researchers recognised by NIHR in 2023 awards
- Exploring stigma in opioid agonist treatment journeys
- NIHR SPHR trainee welcome day and alumni meeting
- Children in the North most vulnerable to cost of living crisis
- Landlord licensing schemes in London reduce anti-social behaviour
- NIHR SPHR Christmas Newsletter
- £1.95 million for new NIHR Collaboration to tackle multiple long term conditions
- The effectiveness of school-based peer education interventions – a global systematic review
- UK Public Health Science 2022 – Glasgow
- Public mental health across the life course
- Problem drinking linked to increased risk of suicide and self-harm
- COVID-19 mortality rates higher in deprived areas globally
- Your Path in Research
- NIHR Three Schools Webinar: recording now available
- SPHR Impact Accelerator Awards – second round of awards announced
- Local authority spending and nutritional anaemia hospital admissions
- Doctoral Local Authority Fellowship (DLAF) Round 2
- Evaluating the Peer Education Project – Executive Summary published
- ResNet holds annual meeting in Birmingham
- New SPHR research programmes 2022-2027
- New recommendations for integrating Housing Support Coordinators into housing and healthcare systems – findings from the Wakefield Housing Support Evaluation
- Participatory Action Research toolkit launched
- Public health in practice – our fellowship at NHS England and Improvement
- Junk food advertising restrictions prevent almost 100,000 obesity cases and is expected to save the NHS £200m, study reveals
- NIHR SPHR Impact Accelerator Awards 2022
- Developing a young people’s toolkit on Health Inequalities
- Ultra-processed foods make up almost two-thirds of Britain’s school meals
- New funding announced to support next generation of dementia researchers
- Celebrating 10 years of working together for better public health: Annual Scientific Meeting 2022
- NIHR Three Research Schools’ Mental Health Research Fellowships
- Six steps of the systems thinking approach in policy design and why it matters?
- Rehousing programmes for older social housing tenants in Hackney: how well do they work?
- Study shows an additional 10,000 children have entered care due to child poverty
- A new name for NIHR – National Institute for Health and Care Research – updated resources now available
- Learning from the process of co-production: Reflections, hints and tips
- Public Mental Health Virtual Symposium 2022 – presentations now available
- Celebrating 10 years of the NIHR School for Public Health Research
- Welcoming new members to the NIHR School for Public Health Research 2022-2027
- SPHR funded researchers recognised as outstanding leaders in public health research
- NIHR SPHR is supporting the LGA/ADPH Annual Public Health Conference 2022
- Introducing FOR EQUITY
- Public Mental Health Virtual Symposium 2022
- Transport for London’s junk food advertising restrictions linked to reductions in high fat, salt and sugar product purchases
- SPHR Impact Accelerator Awards – could you enhance or accelerate the impact of your SPHR project?
- Can you share your priorities for improving the health and wellbeing of disadvantaged young people with us?
- Engaging and working with young people: webinar recording now available
- NIHR SPHR researchers shine at Lancet Public Health Science 2021 conference
- New report: Widening inequalities for children in the North of England cost billions, increase poverty and cost children’s lives
- SPHR Pre-Doctoral Fellows: organising and attending a week-long writing retreat
- Behind the research: Dr Jen Dykxhoorn
- Conceptual Framework for Public Mental Health – launch of a new web-based tool
- Behind the research: Dr Kiara Chang
- SPHR Doctoral students attend Twelfth NIHR Infrastructure Doctoral Research Training Camp
- Call for applications – NIHR Three Research Schools Mental Health Practice Evaluation Scheme *deadline for EOI 8th October 2021*
- NIHR Three Research Schools’ Mental Health Research Fellowships
- NIHR announces £25million funding for the School for Public Health Research 2022-2027
- NIHR SPHR Public Partners Network (PAN): A report on the 2nd meeting of the PAN May 2021
- Recruitment challenges of school-based research in the wake of Covid-19
- National Food Strategy – Historic reforms of the food system are needed to improve the health of the nation and save the environment
- Behind the research: Oli Jones
- Urgent action needed to reduce harm of ultra-processed foods to British children
- How should Relationships and Sex Education be taught?
- NIHR SPHR researchers publish a strategy for engaging and working with children & young people
- Working together for better Public Health: Highlights from our Annual Scientific Meeting 2021
- NIHR SPHR Annual Scientific Meeting 13th & 14th May 2021
- Celebrating Mental Health Awareness Week and new research on promising public mental health interventions
- Behind the research: Cleo Baskin
- Behind the research: Caroline Lee
- New Chief Scientific Adviser and NIHR lead announced
- Addressing loneliness in 16-25 year olds: What do we know and what do we need to know?
- Refreshed NIHR School for Primary Care Research to strengthen whole primary care research sector
- Help shape interactive tool to raise awareness of influences on mental health
- SPHR funded researchers recognised as outstanding leaders in public health research
- NIHR Academy launches new mentoring programme
- Behind the research: Creating LGBT+ Affirming School Environments (CLASS) research team
- Improving diversity in research: webinar recording now available
- Do anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying projects improve LGBT+ mental health?
- New fellowship opportunities for individuals working in local authorities
- Three minute thesis competition winners announced
- Successive governments’ approach to obesity policies has destined them to fail, say researchers
- Highlights from our annual PhD student event
- Behind the research: Sarah Beardon
- Preschoolers’ eating, activity and sleep behaviours were impacted during first COVID-19 lockdown, study suggests
- World Children’s Day: Reducing health inequalities in childhood
- COVID-19 report reveals massive hit to the North’s health and economy
- Funding boost to tackle England’s North-South health divide
- Competition to refresh and renew membership of the School announced
- Behind the research: Lizzy Winstone
- NIHR Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration (SPARC) open for applications
- Optimal detection and management of cardiac risk could save millions of lives
- Report reveals young people felt less anxious and more connected to school in lockdown
- New report shows young people’s mental health improved during lockdown
- NIHR SPHR Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme (PHPES) 2020-2022
- NIHR SPHR Public Partners Network (PPaN)
- NIHR SPHR and NIHR ARC Yorkshire and Humber launch joint-funded PhD studentship
- Government launches new obesity strategy
- NIHR SPHR and NIHR ARC West launch joint-funded PhD studentship
- The BMJ publishes special issue on racism in medicine
- NIHR stands by Black Lives Matter
- What happens to our mental health during a public health crisis?
- Tobacco industry discounting linked to higher cigarette consumption in Europe
- Evaluating the effect of individual alcohol licensing decisions on local health and crime
- New NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme Director appointed
- COVID-19: Parliamentary Expert Database
- What are the most important factors influencing mental health across the life course?
- A Blog: Housing and Health: Through Our Eyes – a Photovoice Exhibition
- School sponsors prestigious Lancet conference awards
- Blog: Who do you involve when researching public mental health?
- NIHR SPHR researchers win Emerald Literati Award
- An ‘unprecedented’ rise in infant mortality linked to poverty in England
- NIHR School for Public Health Research Fellowships call now open
- Blog: Reflections on the NIHR Tenth Infrastructure Doctoral Research Training Camp by Vicky Carlisle, SPHR PhD Student
- Blog: Take it away: a masterclass in healthy takeaways
- Blog: Perseverance and Public Health: creating a cultural shift takes time
- Healthy people, healthy places
- More older people with depression could benefit from non-drug treatments
- Responsive research funding for local public health evaluation
- Welcoming our new PhD students to the NIHR community
- SPHR researchers receive Emerald Literati Award
- Improving the health of students and staff at English academies
- Behind the research: Dr Jamie Brown
- Behind the research: Professor Sarah Salway
- NIHR School for Public Health Research launch PhD Studentships
- NIHR School for Public Health Research PhD Studentships announced
- SPHR Public Health Experts named NIHR Senior Investigators
- Study of 3,000 drinkers’ attempts to cut down produces sobering results
- What is best practice in school sex education?
- Refreshed and renewed membership for the NIHR School for Public Health Research announced
- Outcomes of the Drink Less alcohol reduction smartphone app trial
- What is the impact of locating welfare advice in GP surgeries?
- Sensory impairments increase the risk of frailty in later life
- Report: Changing risk behaviours and promoting cognitive health in older adults
- Football as an effective mental health intervention? The evaluation of coping through football
- Smokers quitting tobacco also drink less alcohol
- Communities in Control study: phase 1 findings released
- Drink Less: smartphone app to help reduce the amount of alcohol you consume
- Anxiety higher in women under age of 35
- Sexual health and alcohol education for young people: developing an evidence-based educational intervention
- Exploring local authority priority setting for public health investment
- Breakthrough Mentoring
- WISE – Wellbeing in Secondary Education
- Long-term conditions, multi-morbidity and medication in older people
- NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) competition to refresh and renew membership opens
- Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme open for applications
- Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme (PHPES)
- Ageing Well Programme –Public and Practice Engagement Event
- NIHR SPHR Director recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
- SPHR Fuse lead appointed Director of NIHR Health Research Programme
- SPHR opens Round 2 of Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme
- Implementation of health promotion in schools – insights from a realist review
- Health and wellbeing effects of participating in conservation or environmental enhancement activities – findings from SPHR systematic review
- SPHR’s UCL lead receives damehood in Queen’s Birthday Honours
- SPHR launches innovative scheme to evaluate local public health initiatives
- SPHR inaugural Annual Scientific Meeting held in Sheffield
- Leading the way – pioneering School for Public Health Research launches
- Category: Public health professionals
- Category: Public involvement
- Category: Training
- Category: Research
- Long-term evaluation and modelling of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of whole-school public mental health interventions
- Mapping the landscape of prenatal alcohol prevention in the UK: a collaborative review
- Exploring the longer-term impacts of Covid-19 on young people’s mental health and additional support required post-lockdown
- Category: Ageing well programme
- Category: Age friendly communities
- Category: Ageing & inequalities
- Category: Ageing & wellness
- Cognitive health in the Ageing well programme
- Ways to Wellness: feasibility study of the impact of a social prescribing intervention
- Men in sheds: improving the health and wellbeing of older men through gender-based activity interventions: a systematic review and scoping for an evaluation
- Personalising preventive health interventions
- Modelling cardiovascular disease and dementia in ageing population
- Category: Alcohol programme
- Effectiveness and cost-effectiveNess of diGital compared to practitioner delivered brief Alcohol interventions aimed at hiGher-risk drinkErs: a network meta-analysis – ENGAGE
- Optimising the alcohol reduction app: Drink Less
- Mechanisms for community engagement in local alcohol decision making: a scoping study
- Evaluating public health interventions and exploring behavioural trends in complex systems
- Methodological research to improve the analysis of natural experiments in public health: feasibility study and proof-of-principle with a special focus on alcohol licensing
- Evaluating the impact of a Cumulative Impact Zone Policy to reduce alcohol-related harms in Islington Local Authority
- The Alcohol Toolkit Study (ATS)
- Changing environmental cues to reduce alcohol consumption
- ACCEPT: A pilot feasibility trial of alcohol screening and brief intervention in the police custody suite setting
- New technologies for reducing excessive alcohol use – the development and evaluation of a theory-based smartphone application
- Extending The Alcohol Toolkit Study: Understanding the population context of alcohol use
- Category: Alcohol consumption & young people
- Generation of a novel school-based digital intervention to prevent harmful alcohol use among young people aged 13-14 years
- DrinkThink: alcohol screening and brief intervention for young people in youth, social service, and healthcare settings – a mixed method evaluation and intervention development study
- Young people – risky sexual behaviour and alcohol use
- Category: Supporting national & local decision making
- Category: Supporting personal decision making
- Category: Changing behaviour at population level theme
- South-west School Health Research Network (SW-SHRN) – Creation of a network to characterise and improve adolescent mental health and well-being
- Understanding the association between use of digital food delivery services and household food purchasing behaviours
- The public’s role in public health – understanding and negotiating public support for policies designed to improve population health
- What influences government policymaking? The case of childhood obesity in England
- Using theories of practice to develop event-level alcohol epidemiology and policy analysis: Studying context, consumption and harm
- Approaching evaluations of public health interventions to tackle obesity from a complex systems perspective
- “Holding on by the seat of their pants” A Mixed methods exploration of retention, completion and recovery in opioid substitution treatment
- Evaluating the reach, potential impact and fidelity of a school-based physical activity intervention – The Daily Mile
- NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme – process evaluation of the demonstrator phase and consensus building for a common evaluation framework and data-set for programme implementation
- Evaluation of the London-wide HIV Prevention Programme (LHPP)
- Evidence beyond the health sector
- Shifting the gravity of spending? Exploring methods for supporting public health commissioners in priority setting to improve population health and address health inequalities
- Assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of population / community public health interventions and targeted identification and screening interventions for type-2 diabetes prevention, using a common modelling framework to support translation of knowledge into action.
- Developing a systems approach to evaluating local authority funding cuts and their consequences for health inequalities – with particular reference to housing
- Evaluating use and acceptability of, funding mechanisms and demand for online spatial data visualisation tools for local public health decision-support: learning from Feat 2.0 and PCT
- Proposal development for the health evaluation of two large transport infrastructure projects in London – HS2 and Crossrail
- Engaging with school academies and free schools to enable evidenced-based health promotion in schools: an elite interviewing study with academy chain and free school groups CEOs and school heads
- Developing a systems perspective for the evaluation of local public health interventions: theory, methods and practice
- Capturing the learning from public involvement in the first five years of the NIHR School for Public Health Research
- Exploring the nature and acceptability of local authority actions to restrict proliferation of hot-food takeaways in England: preparation for a large-scale evaluation
- Evaluation of the Doncaster ‘Foundation for Change’ programme for perpetrators of domestic abuse
- Modelling preventative interventions to address inequalities in chronic disease
- Active buildings: modelling physical activity and movement in office buildings
- Natural experimental evaluation of a complex intervention to promote increased smoking cessation rates among pregnant women in maternity care
- Community-based Prevention of Diabetes (ComPoD): A randomised trial with a waiting list control group to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a third sector led, community-based diabetes prevention programme (Living Well, Taking Control [LWTC] Programme)
- Relocation to New Environments (RENEW)
- What are the health benefits of taking part in environment/conservation activities for different groups of people? A theory led systematic review
- Systematic reviews of determinants/correlates of obesity related dietary and physical activity behaviours in young children (preschool 0-6yrs): evidence mapping and syntheses
- Development of an intervention to improve mental health support and training for secondary school staff – a feasibility study and pilot cluster RCT
- Stoke-on-Trent Smokefree Homes Service Evaluation
- Transforming the ‘foodscape’: development and feasibility testing of interventions to promote healthier take-away, pub or restaurant food
- Implementing evidence-based best practice criteria in sex and relationship education
- Category: Children, young people & families
- Category: Children, young people & families programme
- ‘Poverty-Proofing’ maternity care; a qualitative and survey study to improve access to care and pregnancy outcomes
- Living with housing insecurity
- ‘Physical activity insecurity’ as experienced by LGBTQ+ children and young people living with deprivation: what would safe spaces for physical activity look like for this community?
- Exploring food insecurity in pregnancy in the UK to inform future Public Health intervention needs
- The Physical Activity CasE Study Project (PACES)
- Addressing inequalities in childhood febrile illness associated with paediatric emergency department attendance in Liverpool.
- The Role of Socioeconomic Position in Adolescent Physical Activity
- A mixed-methods study to explore individual and contextual factors related to withdrawal of children from RSE
- Inequalities in Children Looked After in England: local area studies to inform policy
- Developing a Core Outcome Set for physical activity interventions in primary schools
- Reducing the burden of recurrent preschool wheeze and asthma in children and young people in England
- Evaluating children’s physical activity, health, and wellbeing: iMprOVE cohort study
- Enabling children and young people’s involvement in whole system action to reduce inequalities in the social determinants of health
- An evaluation of nutrition welfare policies for low-income children in the United Kingdom
- The role of the social environment in adolescent adiposity and physical activity
- Assessing options for the measurement of movement-related behaviours of preschool -aged children from socio-economically deprived communities at scale
- The impact of economic shocks on health and health inequalities
- What exactly are ‘me’ sized meals for one to five year olds?
- Uptake and outcomes associated with Universal Infant Free School Meals in England
- Harnessing data to improve child health
- Examining the policy context for reducing health inequalities among children and young people (WP1)
- How can we design better systems to improve child health and reduce inequalities at a local level?
- Implementation of health promotion in schools: a realist review
- Category: Child health systems
- Category: Improving child health
- Category: Inequalities
- Category: Mental health
- Category: Efficient & equitable public health systems theme
- Applications of whole-systems approaches to place-based decision-making: leveraging urban housing for population health and sustainable development
- Reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases: which interventions are more effective and equitable for reducing the burden of multimorbidity
- Could linked health and council data advance our understanding of the determinants of multimorbidity and inform service provision? A mixed methods study
- Evaluating the impact of childhood public mental health interventions on long term health and wider societal outcomes (WP4)
- Evaluating the health, social and economic impact of equitable public mental health interventions (WP3)
- Evaluating the efficiency and equity impact of food policies to improve population health (WP2)
- Development and application of reporting guidelines for efficiency, equity and systems approaches (WP1)
- How do public health professionals view and engage with research?
- Integrating attention to ethnicity and migration within applied public health and health inequalities research
- Co-creating an agreed set of theoretically and empirically-informed knowledge sharing principles for the SPHR research programme
- Shifting the Gravity of Spending Mark 2: Assessing the impact of PHE’s Prioritisation Framework
- Health and economic impacts of welfare rights advice in the UK; development of a bid to address outstanding research questions
- Category: Health inequalities
- Evaluating the impact of active school environments on children and young people’s health
- Evaluating the impact of national and local action aimed at levelling up and pandemic recovery
- Leveraging learning from COVID-19 adaptations to maximise the use of community digital assets and virtual spaces among marginalised populations
- Creating knowledge partnerships for equity
- Category: Health inequalities theme
- Access to health and social support services for women with multiple and complex needs: an intersectional analysis
- Digital healthcare inequality in the UK: How does marginalisation shape experiences of digital healthcare?
- Strengthening the equity focus in public health research in and beyond SPHR
- The equity impact of changing spatial distribution of resources for population health and inequalities
- Implementation of health-justice partnerships: Social welfare legal services in healthcare settings
- Exploring the impact of Universal Credit on health and wellbeing
- Evaluation of a pilot scheme of Welfare Advice Hubs based in primary care settings in Haringey in north London
- The health inequalities impact of reducing the cost of local authority leisure facilities
- Category: Health inequalities: communities in control programme
- Category: Healthy places, healthy planet
- Understanding representations of ultra-processed foods in the UK media: a thematic content analysis
- Evaluating community-led interventions to maximise the health and well-being of climate change adaptations for extreme events
- Understanding the impact of mandatory energy (calorie) labelling policy in out-of-home food environments in England: a mixed methods evaluation of purchase behaviour, population health outcomes, and the views of young people
- Evaluating coastal rural communities’ active and sustainable travel (COAST)
- Effects and mechanisms of traffic restriction schemes outside schools in Great Britain: a natural experimental study
- Conceptualising local systems of consumption that produce inequalities: the night-time economy
- Category: Places & communities programme
- A theory-based approach to understanding the effect of ethnic density on mental ill health in England
- Understanding place-centred public health strategies implemented in a context of financial constraint: a comparative case study approach (WSA WP4)
- Quantifying and evaluating the impact of contrasting investment strategies at the local level (WSA WP2)
- Category: Case studies: Food
- The impact of ‘emergency’ food parcels on the dietary practices of low-income households in the South of England: A mixed qualitative study
- Simulating the effect of urban food system interventions on dietary behaviour: A qualitative system dynamics and spatial agent-based modelling approach
- Impacts of changes to public sector spending on nutritional intakes and health outcomes in the UK
- The impact of migration on local food systems – challenges and opportunities for public health
- Improving our understanding of the use of online food delivery services to access food prepared out-of-home
- Understanding barriers and facilitators to implementing regulatory mechanisms to restrict hot food takeaway outlets (WSB WS2 WP2)
- Improved use of routine data to assess and evaluate food environments (WSB WS2 WP1)
- Evaluation of the removal of ‘junk-food’ advertising in public transport networks on junk-food awareness and purchasing in London: natural experiment study (WSB WS1 WP1)
- How can local authorities and the public use existing policy levers more effectively to shape a ‘healthier food environment’?
- Category: Case studies: Transport
- What is the impact of environmental pollution on young people’s mental health?
- Transport – Case Study 2 – Individual and environmental approaches to promote alternatives to the car: feasibility, pilot and process evaluation studies in the North-East and the East of England
- Transport – Case Study 1 – Road User Charging: will local policy innovation improve population health and reduce inequalities?
- Category: Planning effective place-centred public health strategies
- Category: Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme
- Category: Alcohol
- Category: Children, young people & families
- South Tyneside Best Start in Life Alliance
- First Dental Steps Intervention: a feasibility study of a Health Visitor led infant oral health improvement programme
- Digital Health Contact (DHC)
- A realist evaluation of the Mental Health Foundation’s Peer Education Project (PEP) in Secondary Schools
- The development and implementation of School Superzones in Local Authorities across the London Region
- Category: Housing, environment & health
- Evaluating the Falls Prevention Programme in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Together an Active Future
- Wakefield Housing Support Evaluation (WHoSE)
- Private landlord licensing policy in the London Borough of Hackney
- Downsizing and rehousing schemes – how well do they work for older social housing tenants?
- Category: Influencing behaviours & support
- Category: Mental health
- Category: The PHPES: A review
- Category: Public mental health
- Category: Public mental health programme
- Supporting educational and youth organisations to deliver self-harm and suicide prevention and postvention: a mixed methods study and co-produced guidance
- Reducing inequalities by improving the system within which ‘at-risk’ young people access, and engage with, community assets that support mental health.
- Maximising informal volunteering as a community resource to support the mental health and wellbeing of adults across the life course
- Public Perspectives on Inequalities and their Impact on Public Mental Health
- Determining the impact of national policy, interventions, and macrosocial shifts on public mental health outcomes and inequalities, harnessing national routine health data, bespoke cohort data and systems approaches
- Economic evaluation of promising public mental health interventions
- Identifying and validating a core public mental health outcome set (PMH WP2)
- Development of a public mental health conceptual framework (PMH WP1)
- Category: Adults
- Exploring co-located public mental health interventions in community spaces and impacts on health inequalities: a realist evaluation.
- How do men experience social prescribing interventions in the UK?
- Social exclusion and mental health problems
- Investigating the feasibility of delivering a resilience building programme to parents of secondary school children
- Improving public mental health in adults experiencing key psychosocial stresses and life transitions. Evidence synthesis and mapping of promising interventions (PMH WP4)
- An evaluation of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Coping Through Football programme in tackling physical and mental health
- Addressing inequalities in access to smoking cessation support for people with recognised poor mental health problems
- Evaluating the impact of current changes in the role of social housing providers on inequalities in mental health and wellbeing for residents and communities
- Safeguarding children affected by parental substance misuse: developing parenting interventions to support non-using parents
- Evaluating the public health outcomes of the Cambridgeshire Time Credits project
- Category: Children & young people
- Qualitative case study examining the links between school culture and student mental health
- School culture and student mental health: a participatory action research study
- Disentangling the complex relationship between social media use and teenage mental health
- Co-producing an intervention to promote social and emotional resilience in children and young people affected by parental substance misuse
- Young People’s Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Improving the mental health of children and young people in educational settings (PMH WP3)
- Mentoring vulnerable and excluded adolescents to achieve better health and well-being: A feasibility study and pilot randomised control trial (RCT) of the Breakthrough Mentoring Scheme
- Category: Older adults
- Category: Understanding public mental health
- Category: ResNet
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