The NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit (PH-PRU) conducts public health research with a social determinants focus, delivered within four broad themes:
Understanding what determines people’s physical and mental health, and health behaviours.
Identifying, developing and evaluating able and cost effective public health interventions.
Generating evidence to inform strategies to reduce inequalities in health.
Developing new theory and methods, and new ways to apply them to public health challenges.