Members of NUPHA
North West Region – Public Health England
The role of PHE Regional Teams is to:
- Manage strategic discussions with key partners
- Act as the PH adviser to NHS England
- Give professional support and leadership to the public health system, clinical and medical supervision, and professional guidance and leadership
- Quality improvement and assurance of centres
- Ensure that the region has robust emergency planning, resilience and response arrangements
Our North West Region Public Health England team can be found here.
NHSA
Our team from NHSA can be found here.
Public Health Research – Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine – Edge Hill University
Edge Hill University is one of the largest providers of health and social care education in the North West of England, with approximately 4,000 professionals trained and educated at Edge Hill every year.
The Faculty of Health and Social Care provides responsive, high-quality education delivered in state-of-the-art facilities for those working in, or seeking to work in, health and social care.
Learning resources for health and social care students include over 23,000 books, journals and electronic resources, with access also available to facilities at several NHS study centres.
Our team at Edge Hill University can be found here.
Centre for Health Promotion Research – Leeds Beckett University
Established since 1997, the Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett University is one of the leading academic institutions for health promotion research in the UK. The Centre maintains a broad and integrated programme of health promotion research which addresses local, national and international issues. Our research encompasses a broad range of areas, clustered around several themes, including: healthy communities; gender and health promotion; prison health; workplace health and well-being.
We employ a range of approaches to research and evaluation, often adopting a participatory approach to work with and alongside individuals and communities. In addition, we have particular expertise in evidence synthesis, including Cochrane-style systematic reviews and meta-analyses, to more flexible approaches such as mixed-methods systematic reviews, meta-ethnography, realist synthesis, reviews of reviews (meta-reviews), rapid reviews, and systematic mapping reviews. Staff work in partnership with national and international governmental and non-governmental organisations, health and social care professionals and other academic researchers to produce research that is timely and relevant. Professor Jane South is currently seconded to Public Health England as National Advisor for Communities. Other research centres working on public health at Leeds Beckett University include: The Applied Obesity Research Centre – with core research themes, including: weight stigma and discrimination; prevention and treatment; the Environment; and whole systems obesity. Centre for Dementia Research – focussing on three main themes: dementia care and services; physical activity and sport; and the arts, culture, media and society. Active Lifestyles Research Centre – focussing on two primary areas: to identify physical activity (PA) impact; and to promote PA better.
Our Leeds Beckett University team can be found here.
MUCH – University of Manchester
The Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health (MUCH) is a part of the Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care at The University of Manchester. MUCH perform high quality research, teaching and training in the field of public health, and has established links to local, national and international public health organisations.
Some of our projects include:
- Lead for the Integrated Interdisciplinary Innovations in Healthcare Science (i3HS) Hub
- Global and European Urban Health networks and partnerships including WHO Euro, WHO Centre for Health Development, UN Habitat, The International Society of Urban Health and the European Public Health Association Urban Health Section
- The Urban Health Index with National Drug Evidence Centre, WHO and Georgia State University
- Healthy Ageing in rural towns
- The Global Urban Health Indicators Interdisciplinary Hub
- Patterns and Prevalence of Adult Food Allergy (PI Prof Clare Mills)
- Manchester Globalomics Initiative for Nutritional Health (PI Prof John McLoughlin) – aiming to build close collaborations with Low and Middle Income Countries for nutritional health and wellbeing
- Evaluation of a Real Junkfood Café
- Blood borne virus prevention, testing, treatment and evaluation
- Evaluation of cancer awareness and early detection interventions
- Lung, breast, bowel, prostate and cervical cancer early detection interventions
- Evaluation of infection control and vaccination programmes
Our team from MUCH at the University of Manchester can be found here.
Multidisciplinary Research Theme on Integrated Health and Social Care – Northumbria University
The subtheme of Social Justice and Health Equity for Marginalised groups is has for example (but not exclusively) undertaken research into the impact of poverty on health, the interaction of key marginalised group with the health care or welfare system or how particularly vulnerable children and families can be supported; we also have particular expertise in qualitative and participatory research, implementation science and realist evaluation, as well as access to biostatisticians or health economists for example.
Our Northumbria University team can be found here.
School of Health and Society – University of Salford
The University of Salford takes a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach to public health to explore the social determinants of health. Staff have a strong research portfolio that includes: work place health, physical activity, alcohol misuse, sexual health, digital technologies in health and dental public health. The University of Salford is a research-informed institution that creates and applies new ideas, turning them into opportunities to benefit individuals and the knowledge economy. We are one of the one of the largest providers of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional education programmes in the UK, known for our track record of collaborating with a wide range of industry partners across health and social care to produce highly skilled graduates, with real work life experience. We are also experts in the social sciences sector and are known locally, regionally, nationally and internationally for our applied research into the interface between health, wellbeing, housing, criminal justice and social care. We effect social and cultural change by research-informed engagement and practice. Our sports and exercise academics work with a broad range of leading sports clubs, teams and industry partners to deliver excellent research and learning experiences. Salford has a rich history and an exciting future; we sit at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse, and actively engage with stakeholders across the region to address the health outcomes arising from the devolution of power to Greater Manchester’s local authorities. We have always been committed to addressing the needs and aspirations of our local community and beyond.
Our team at the University of Salford can be found here.
ScHARR – University of Sheffield
ScHARR is the School of Health & Related Research at the University of Sheffield. For more information about ScHARR and our public health research themes please visit our research website here.
To view our team at ScHARR please click here.
Healthy & Sustainable Settings Unit – UCLAN
The Healthy & Sustainable Settings Unit is based within the School of Community Health & Midwifery within the Faculty of Health & Wellbeing. Established in 2001, it aims to support the holistic and integrated development of healthy settings – acknowledging that “health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life; where they learn, work, play and love” (WHO, 1986) and that many health challenges are interrelated and can be best tackled through comprehensive, integrated programmes in the contexts and places where people live their lives. Bridging research, policy and practice, the unit has a global reputation and is concerned to facilitate ecological approaches to health and wellbeing within and across a diversity of organisational and geographical settings – and to increase understanding of ‘what works and why’ in different contexts. The unit’s work is informed by: a focus on salutogenesis – going beyond illness to explore the creation of wellbeing and foster potentials that enable individuals and populations to flourish · a willingness to engage with and embrace complexity · a concern to work with and manage change in whole systems · a commitment to participation, empowerment and co-creation · the imperative of connecting health, equity and sustainable development – appreciating that human health is dependent on social, economic and ecological justice, and closely interwoven with the health of the planet.
Our team at UCLAN Healthy & Sustainable Settings Unit can be found here.
Department of Health Sciences – University of York
Our large, multidisciplinary department offers a broad range of educational programmes in the health and social care field. From diploma through to postgraduate levels, professional health-related teaching programmes are informed by the latest research evidence.
Our substantial research programme is characterised by interdisciplinary and international collaboration, a robust scientific foundation and relevance and impact for policy and practice. Its excellence was recognised in the last Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) in which we were rated seventh nationally in public health, health services and primary care and joint first for our research environment.
We have research teams working in a number of areas, including cancer epidemiology and cardiovascular health; health services and policy; mental health and addiction; public health and society; trials and statistics; and nursing and midwifery. Researchers are working to develop and apply rigorous methodology in randomised trials, systematic reviews, healthcare statistics, epidemiology and qualitative methods.
Producing evidence does not in itself improve health, so we work to find out how evidence is translated into practice, in particular by research into communication and decision making in health care. We also inform and evaluate health policy in various areas including workforce and inequalities in health.
All our research teams are multidisciplinary, typically involving clinicians, statisticians, health economists, psychologists, sociologists and epidemiologists. Research funding comes from a number of sources including the National Institute for Health Research, the Department of Health and Social Care, the British Heart Foundation, Leukaemia Research Fund, the Economic and Social Research Council and Medical Research Council.
The Public Health and Society team, led by Professor Kate Pickett, investigates the social patterning of health, by socioeconomic position, ethnicity and gender as well as age. We focus on the social and healthcare factors that play a role in inequalities in health, and draw out the implications for improving policy and practice. and conduct research with childbearing women and their babies, their families and carers.
Our team at the University of York can be found here.
