Our current projects

Routes: new ways to talk about Covid for better health. Focus on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities and migrant workers
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities and migrant workers often experience worse health than the general population, with existing inequalities exacerbated further by the Covid-19 pandemic. Understanding health experiences within these communities and co-designing solutions is vital to improve health equity and health services.
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Addressing inequalities in ‘Children in Need’: A population linkage study to inform policy
This project aims to develop a better understanding of the drivers of inequalities in child welfare outcomes, and the subsequent consequences for health and education. It will deliver new evidence on pathways to inequalities in “Children in Need” (CiN), and will identify policy entry points, allowing the development of better policies to tackle inequalities in social care.
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Theorising and measuring intervention agency, and exploring relationships with intervention effectiveness, equity and acceptability
This project will develop theory concerning how agency is exerted and the different actors required for population interventions to achieve their effects. It will design a new tool to categorise population interventions based on the degree of agency required of all relevant actors, and apply it to systematically reviewed studies of population interventions for diet and physical activity.
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Public perceptions of the health risks of climate change and priorities for action
This project aims to provide evidence on people’s perceptions of the health risks of climate change and their priorities for action and, thereby, to help to inform national policies and local action plans to reduce climate-change related risks to health.
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Wider societal benefits (WSBs) of public health interventions
This new project aims to assess the use of WSBs in the economic evaluation of public health interventions. It will also assess how prioritisation of policies based on health and WSBs combined impacts on population health and health inequality compared with prioritisation based on health gains alone.
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