Are Local Authorities using their new responsibilities to shift the gravity of their spending towards preventive health? Some public health professionals initially struggled to understand different decision-making mechanisms after councils took over public health. What help do public health commissioners need … Continue reading
SPHR@L Seminar Series NIHR School for Public Health Research @ LSHTM ‘Politics, localism and epistemologies of practice: How will evidence-based public health fair in the world of local government?’ Speaker: Gemma Phillips (University of Edinburgh/ University of Glasgow) Seminar abstract – G Phillips … Continue reading
The European Journal for Public Health has just published this collaborative editorial by Greg Hartwell (SPHR@L Affiliaite) and Anna Gilmore (University of Bath) illustrating the divisions in the public health community over e-cigarettes. Read the full article here: E-cigarettes: threat or opportunity?
The Journal of the Town and Country Planning Association’s August issue features an article by SPHR@L’s own Matt Egan; a collaborative piece with Will Anderson, André Pinto and Lesley Mountford on some of the key issues relating to evidence that have … Continue reading
SPHR@L Seminar Series NIHR School for Public Health Research @ LSHTM ”Shifting the Gravity of Spending?’ Exploring methods for supporting public health commissioners in priority-setting to improve population health and address health inequalities’ Speaker: Silvia Scalabrini (Durham University) Read the … Continue reading
NIHR has announced that Professors Martin White and Frank Kee have been appointed as programme director and chair respectively of the NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme. The appointments are made in succession to Professor Catherine Law, whose term of … Continue reading
Modelling human behaviour and social interactions can help evaluations to explain the unexpected Zaid Chalabi and Theo Lorenc discuss why simulations based on known human behaviour could help us to understand complex interventions like Glasgow’s urban regeneration programme. When big sports … Continue reading
SPHR@L Seminar Series NIHR School for Public Health Research @ LSHTM ‘Can Agent-Based Models Inform the Evaluation of Complex Natural Experiments’ Speaker: Dr. Zaid Chalabi (LSHTM) Dr. Theo Lorenc (UCL) Read the seminar abstract! Read the seminar blog! Date: Tuesday, 20th May 2014 Time: 12.45-14.00 … Continue reading
Public Health England March news bulletin PHE Bulletin, Public Health England’s regular update, provides news and information on PHE and the public health landscape for all those concerned with the public’s health. For more information see our website: www.gov.uk/phe
Evidence is most likely to influence public health if it fits the right problem at the right time for the right people Vittal Katikireddi charts the multiple roles that evidence is playing in transforming minimum unit pricing of alcohol into a policy … Continue reading