Dear Colleagues,
As part of the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR), the
Public Health Practitioner Evaluation Programme seeks to identify
promising public health interventions that are in need of rigorous
evaluation.
I am giving you a heads up as it would be great to see some proposals
coming from people involved with interventions that are tackling
ethnic inequalities.
The formal process is not yet open, but should be advertised within
the next 2-3 months.
Applications will be invited from public health practitioners working
in any sector and in any part of England. You must have secured
funding for the initiative you want to be evaluated and it must be of
at least two years duration from the time an evaluation begins. SPHR
will fund the majority of the evaluation costs but applicants will
normally be expected to make a substantial cash or in kind
contribution to the research. The successful proposals will be
selected through a process involving review by public health
practitioners as well as academic members of SPHR.
Selection criteria
1. Fit with SPHR three thematic priorities:
a. Health inequalities
b. Alcohol and young people
c. Healthy Ageing
The school is interested in evaluating the impact of
interventions/initiatives which aim to change the environment
(including the natural, built, social, financial, regulatory, and
cultural environments in which people live and work) as well as those
aiming to promote healthy individual behaviours. We may also
consider interventions/initiatives aiming to improving population
health services.
2. Innovative: the same initiative should not have the subject of a
high quality evaluation of cost-effectiveness in the past thought it
will need to be informed by an appropriate programme theory and/or
some empirical evidence
3. Addressing a high priority public health issue in the local area
but also have the potential to be of benefit in other parts of the
country in relation for example, to the public health issue or
population targeted and/or the nature of the initiative/intervention
An application will need to be completed which will ask for
information about: the person submitting the application; your
project/intervention including information about any evidence you have
drawn on to develop it, who it is aimed at, the timeframes involved
and whether it is already being implemented; the costs of the
project/intervention and where the funds are coming from; and whether
you will be able to contribute (in cash or kind) to the evaluation if
your application is successful.
Please do contact me if you have any good ideas!
best wishes,
Sarah
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Sarah Salway
Senior Research Fellow
NIHR School for Public Health Research
School of Health & Related Research
University of Sheffield
0114 222 4296
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