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How do public health professionals view and engage with research?

This research focused two responsive research schemes: the Public Health Practitioner Evaluation Scheme (PHPES) run by the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR); and Fuse’s ‘AskFuse’ service.

1 April 2014 - 31 March 2016

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Evaluation of the London-wide HIV Prevention Programme (LHPP)

Researchers at University College London and Public Health England worked together to investigate the impact of the London-wide HIV Prevention Programme (LHPP).

August 2015 - March 2017

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Optimising the alcohol reduction smartphone app: Drink Less

This research project will further develop the Drink Less app to incorporate findings from the original Drink Less study to make the app more suitable and user friendly.

January 2018 - July 2019

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Supporting Public Health Practice to reduce health inequalities: a review of SPHR research evidence

This project aims to support SPHR to increase the profile of, and access to the research evidence it has already produced that has potential to support local action to address health inequalities and to maximise the relevance of future research for this policy and practice agenda.

July 2018 - December 2018

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Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme: lessons learned

This project will evaluate the first five years of the Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme to inform and improve the School's future research collaboration.

April 2018 - December 2018

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Evaluating the impact of the changing role of social housing providers on inequalities for residents and communities

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

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Evaluating local authority funding cuts and their consequences for health inequalities

This research aims to prepare the ground for future work assessing how public spending cuts impact on local housing provision and services, particularly those affecting people on low incomes. This work will examine how English local authorities meet the housing needs of disadvantaged residents during the ongoing period of economic hardship and public sector ‘austerity’.

April 2018 - March 2019

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Complex systems approach to evaluation: alcohol case study

This project will harness collaborations and datasets established by the previous SPHR research to build on themes and proposes to analyse public health policy from a complex systems perspective. It will use the complex system of the drivers of alcohol consumption as a case study and explore applications to other areas of behaviour.

July 2017 - June 2018

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Evaluating the health impacts of HS2 and Crossrail

This project aims to provide the groundwork for future evaluation studies of large transport projects in the city of London, namely Crossrail and High Speed Rail 2 (HS2).

May 2017 - April 2018

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Improving the evaluation of public health interventions: a focus on alcohol licensing

This project aims to develop a tool which was used to estimate the impact of alcohol licensing policies on public health and crime across the country, to see if it can be used on a smaller scale to help practitioners in local authorities make decisions around public health interventions and alcohol licensing. 

June 2017 - November 2018

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