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Public Health Research (PHR) Programme - Researcher-led Details (Hits : 6269)
| Aims: | The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) programme will evaluate public health interventions: specifically, it will provide new knowledge on the benefits, costs, acceptability and wider impacts of non-NHS interventions intended to improve the health of the public and reduce inequalities in health. The scope of the programme will be multi-disciplinary and broad: it will cover the range of public health interventions, from social marketing for the promotion of safer sex, to speed humps for the prevention of road traffic accidents. |
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| Description: | The main focus of the Public Health Research (PHR) programme’s evaluation of public health interventions will be on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. However, broader application, as well as acceptability to the target community and wider society, are also important to the impact and sustainability of public health programmes, and, where relevant, will also be investigated. Applications to the PHR programme will include both primary research and evidence synthesis. The precise methods will need to be appropriate to the question being asked and the feasibility of the research, but we expect the primary research to include RCTs, natural experiments, cohort studies, registry/database studies and qualitative methods. The evidence syntheses will need to use the most appropriate methods in systematic reviews, cost-effectiveness studies and modelling of long-term outcomes. |
| *Type: | Projects |
| *Duration: | Unspecified |
| Funding: | The funding available for the PHR programme is up to £10m in 2010/11. Primary research projects are likely to range from the small (lasting 12 months and costing less than £500,000 in all) to the large (several years and more than £1 million). Evidence synthesis projects will probably cost about £200,000 and last some 18 months. The budget of the Programme will enable it to fund single large studies of national or international importance that would be beyond the capacity of other funders. |
| *Amount: | > £100K (Estimated total funds: £15,000,000) |
| Closing Date: | 06 September 2010 |
| Comments: | Proposals received by 1pm on the 6 September and deemed within remit will be assessed for their importance to public health by the Programme Advisory Board on 10 November 2010. Applicants will be advised of the status of their applications after this meeting. For further information see their website. |
| Restrictions: | The PHR programme will fund both primary research and evidence synthesis, depending on the availability of existing research and the most appropriate way of responding to important knowledge gaps. While most funding will be committed to projects answering specific questions, the PHR Programme may from time to time provide funding for research groups to conduct a series of research projects to address linked questions within a topic area, where this seems to be the approach most likely to produce answers to important questions. The Programme will also commission research to support NIHR and DH evaluation needs in specified areas of public health, particularly where NIHR has the strategic lead. |
| Grant Contact: | Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre Alpha House, Enterprise Road Southampton Science Park, Chilworth, Southampton SO16 7NS Email: info@phr.ac.uk |
| Grant Web Page: | Public Health Research (PHR) Programme - Researcher-led |
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