Public Health and Applied Health Intervention
Theme leads: Martin White & Ashley Adamson
PH&AHI is a multidisciplinary research theme that brings together health, social and behavioural science and professional expertise to conduct applied health research with a focus on the development, evaluation and translation of health interventions, as well as on related theory and methods. Our research is built around five broad programmes:
- Understanding and tackling health inequalities
- Understanding and changing health related behaviours
- Evaluation of public health policy
- Public health nutrition
- Prevention of alcohol misuse
There is considerable overlap and inter-disciplinary working between these programmes. Members of the theme collaborate on research internationally and are also members of the national Public Health Research Consortium (PHRC), national School for Public Health Research and Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health – a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence.
So far three projects have been funded by the PHRC, including:
- The Changing Social Patterning of Obesity: An Analysis to Inform Practice and Policy Development
- Research to support the evaluation and implementation of adult cooking skills interventions in the UK and
- The process and impact of change in school foods policy on food and nutrient intake both in and outside of school
We provide research training for postgraduate students at master’s and doctoral levels, and offer research training attachments for public health trainees and other professional groups by special arrangement. If you share our passion for excellence in health intervention research, find out more about our research by following the links on this page or contact Terry Lisle or Sue Bell to find out how you can work with us.
Selected Projects
- A feasibility trial of screening and brief alcohol intervention to prevent hazardous drinking in young people aged 14-15 in a high school setting (SIPS JR-HIGH)
Project Leader(s): Dr D Newbury-Birch, Professor E Kaner, Coulton S, Deluca P, Drummond C, Gilvarry E, Professor P McArdle, Professor E McColl, Howel D, Deverill M, Tate L. - Developing and evaluating interventions for adolescent alcohol use disorders presenting through emergency departments – SIPS-JR
Project Leader(s): Drummond C, Coulton S, Crawford M, Deluca P, Professor E Gilvarry, Professor E Kaner, Professor P McArdle, Russell I, Cohen D, Dr D Newbury-Birch, Maconachie I, Philips T, Patton R, Strang J, Allen M. - Development of interventions to enhance health and wellbeing in later life (The LiveWell Project)
Project Leader(s): Management team: Professor John Mathers (Lead investigator), Professor Martin White (co-investigator), Dr Thomas Meyer (co-investigator), Professor Paula Moynihan (co-investigator), Professor Lynn Rochester (co-investigator), Dr Falko Sniehotta (co-invest - Development of Interventions to Increase Physical Activity Among Inactive Young People with Long-term Conditions: MRC Complex Intervention Framework Phase I Study using Asthma as an Exemplar
Project Leader(s): B Williams, A Sheikh, Dr FF Sniehotta, L Cameron, S Treweek, G Hoskins, P Donnelly, J McGhee, G Brown - Financial incentives for improving uptake of health promoting behaviours
Project Leader(s): Dr Jean Adams - Gateshead Millennium Study : A longitudinal cohort study of children born in Gateshead 1999-2000
Project Leader(s): Professor Ashley Adamson - HTA: BIBS: Benefits of Incentives for Breastfeeding and Smoking Cessation. A platform study for a trial
Project Leader(s): P Hoddinott, A Ludbrook, M Campbell, L Bauld, Dr FF Sniehotta, F Dykes, D Tappin - INVasive Evaluation before Surgical Treatment of Incontinence Gives Added Therapeutic Effect?: a pragmatic multicentre pilot study to assess the feasibility of a future randomised controlled trial
Project Leader(s): Chief Investigator: Mr Paul Hilton (Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust) - Keeping Children Safe at home: a multicentre collaborative research programme to reduce childhood injuries
Project Leader(s): Chief Investigator: Professor Denise Kendrick (University of Nottingham) Newcastle Principal Investigator: Professor Elaine McColl - Randomised controlled trial, economic and process evaluation of domiciliary welfare rights advice for socio-economically disadvantaged older people recruited via primary health care (Do-Well Trial)
Project Leader(s): Professor Martin White (PI), Dr Suzanne Moffatt, Dr Elaine McColl, Dr Katie Lock, Dr Mark Deverill, Ms Denise Howel, Dr Eugene Milne - The process and impact of change in the school food policy on food and nutrient intake of children aged 4-7 and 11-12 years both in and out of school; a mixed methods approach
Project Leader(s): Professor Ashley Adamson (PI), Professor Martin White (Co-Investigator), Ms Martine Stead (Co-Investigator)
