School for Public Health Research
Established in April 2012, the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) is a partnership between eight leading academic centres with excellence in applied public health research in England. The School aims to build the evidence base for effective public health practice. SPHR research looks at what works practically to improve population health and reduce health inequalities, what can be applied across the country and better meets the needs of policymakers, practitioners and the public.
Projects
- Cultures of Evidence beyond the Health Sector: Understanding policy decision-making in English local government for improving action on the social determinants of health. Project 1: Review and synthesis: cultures of evidence in non-health sectors
- Cultures of Evidence beyond the Health Sector: Understanding policy decision-making in English local government for improving action on the social determinants of health. Project 2: Ethnography of policy decisions
- Development of an Intervention to Improve Mental Health Support and Training for Secondary School Staff – A Feasibility Study and Pilot Cluster RCT
- Implementation of health promotion in schools: a realist review
- Men in sheds: improving the health and wellbeing of older men through gender-based activity interventions: a systematic review and scoping for an evaluation
- Public health interventions and targeted identification and screening interventions for type-2 diabetes prevention
- Relocation to New Environments (RENEW)
- Shifting the gravity of spending? Exploring methods for supporting public health commissioners in priority setting to improve population health and address health inequalities
- Systematic reviews of determinants/correlates of obesity related dietary and physical activity behaviours in young children (preschool 0-6yrs): evidence mapping and syntheses
- Welfare benefits, wellbeing and loneliness at older age: towards an evaluation of the impact of withdrawal of universal benefits
- What are the health benefits of taking part in environment/conservation activities for different groups of people? A theory led systematic review
- Personalising preventive health interventions (PR2, Ageing well)
- Modelling preventative interventions to address inequalities in chronic disease
- Active Buildings: modelling physical activity and movement in office buildings
- Transforming the ‘foodscape’: development and feasibility testing of interventions to promote healthier take-away, pub or restaurant food
- New technologies for reducing excessive alcohol use - the development and evaluation of a theory-based smartphone application
- (i) A systematic literature review of digital interventions to reduce hazardous and harmful drinking across unselected populations (‘outcomes review’) (ii) Acceptability of and engagement with digital interventions for reducing hazardous or harmful alcohol consumption in community-dwelling populations: a systematic review (‘engagement review’)
- Ways to Wellness: feasibility study of the impact of a social prescribing intervention
- Evaluation of a pilot scheme of Welfare Advice Hubs based in primary care settings in Haringey in north London (Public Health (mixed methods) Researcher embedded at Haringey Council)
- Evaluating the Public Health Outcomes of the Cambridgeshire Time Credits Project
- Evaluation of the London-wide HIV Prevention Programme (LHPP)
- Evaluating the impact of a Cumulative Impact Zone Policy to reduce alcohol-related harms in Islington Local Authority
- DrinkThink: Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Young People in Youth, Social Service, and Healthcare Settings – a mixed method evaluation and intervention development study
- Natural experimental evaluation of a complex intervention to promote increased smoking cessation rates among pregnant women in maternity care
- 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