Research in the Centre for Public Health

Current studies

The Centre for Public Health aims to provide robust evidence on effective ways to improve population health and wellbeing and reduce health inequities.

Some of our recent studies are listed below.

NIHR School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR)

• ‘Not in School’ – Characterising children and young people aged 5-16 years who are not in school
  
  
• Exploring the mental health co-benefits of net zero interventions: opportunities, challenges, and community perspectives
  
  
• Adolescent perspectives of the role of social media algorithms on their wellbeing
  
  
• Helping ‘at risk’ young people engage with community assets to support mental health
  
  
• Supporting educational and youth organisations to deliver self-harm and suicide prevention and postvention
  
  
• Local strategies for the control of harmful commodities advertising and sponsorship

• Mental health impacts of climate mitigation and adaptation interventions in high income countries

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NIHR Three Schools Prevention Programme

• Co-PREPARE: Co-production for pre-pregnancy health improvement through primary care

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NIHR PHIRST Insight

• Suffolk Free Wheels
  
  
• North Somerset Healthy Workplaces Programme
  
  

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Other studies

• The RISE Study (Resilient, Independent, Supported, Empowered)
  
  
• EARLY: Creating evidence for health improvement and health protection policies and practice in UK Early Years Settings
  
  
• TRAVELS - Town foR ActiVe travEL: a Systems Evaluation of a Welsh multi-level intervention
  
  
• PASSPORT: Physical Activity via a School Specific PORTfolio
  
  
• The Bristol Evaluation of Advertising Restrictions (BEAR) Study
  
  
• NAP SACC UK- Evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an environmental nutrition and physical activity intervention in nurseries
  
  
• Improving clinical coding for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
  
  
• The Connecting Community Mental Health Support Study
  
  
• A systems approach to improving young people's mental health and pathways to adulthood - NIHR Population Health Career Scientist Award

• Unlocking the potential of intersectionality for reducing adolescent mental health inequalities: a mixed methods and theoretically grounded approach

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Completed studies

See our research archive for information on previous studies.