Staff Profile
Emeritus Professor David Hunter
Emeritus Professor
- Email: david.hunter2@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/research/institutes/population-health/
- Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Floor 3
Sir James Spence Institute
Royal Victoria Hospital
Newcastle
NE2 4LP
David graduated in political science from Edinburgh University. His academic career spans over 40 years researching complex health systems with a focus on how health policy is formed and implemented. Between 1999 and July 2017, David was Director of the Centre for Public Policy and Health at Durham University. The Centre was designated a WHO Collaborating Centre in Complex Health Systems Research, Knowledge and Action in 2014. In August 2017 he transferred to the Institute of Health & Society and is now a member of the Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University. He became an Emeritus Professor in August 2018. In April 2019 he was made a Visiting Professor, University of Chester. He is a special advisor to WHO Europe and co-leading with Rafael Bengoa (Co-Director, Institute for Health and Strategy (Si-Health), Bilbao) a project on health system transformation. Former positions include: non-executive director, National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2008-16); Appointed Governor, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2009-2017); and special advisor to the UK Parliamentary Health Committee (2016). He is an Honorary Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh).
Recent and current research grants
- The Health Foundation. Developing Local Authority Champions of Research (LACoR) through an embedded research culture: a Proof of Concept project (CI), September 2018-October 2019, £10,000
- UK PRP. Prevention of Non-Communicable Disease Using Trade Agreements (PETRA) (CI), September 2019-August 2022, £318,000
- NIHR SPHR, Shifting the Gravity of Spending Mark 2: Assessing the impact of Public Health England’s Prioritisation Framework (PI), January 2018 – December 2018, £86,794
- Public Health England. Mapping the Public Health Research Future. 2016-17. £18,647
- North of England Commissioning Support Unit. Evaluation of North East Vanguard Programmes for All Together Better. 2016-2017. £167,000.
- Department of Health and Social Care PRP. Improving choices for care: a strategic research initiative on the implications of the Care Act 2014, October 2016 – September 2018, £406,369
- Durham University Seedcorn Funding Award, Age-based rationing: research design workshop for comparative study of health systems (PI), October 2016 – January 2017, £12,931
- DH PRP, Improving choices for care: a strategic research initiative on the implications of the Care Act 2014 (CI), October 2016 – September 2018, £406,369
- DH PRP, Commissioning public health services: the impact of the health reforms on access, health inequalities and innovation in service provision (CI), September 2014 – June 2017, £497,950
- MRC UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence – Fuse, Centre for Translational Research in Public Health (CI), June 2013 – May 2018, £5,000,000 Department of Health Policy Research Programme (DH PRP) Evaluating the leadership role of Health & Wellbeing Boards (PI), September 2014 – June 2017, £424,851
- NIHR SPHR: Shifting the Gravity of Spending? Exploring methods for supporting public health commissioners in priority-setting to improve population health and address health inequalities. Follow on study (PI), September 2015 – September 2016, £95,451
- Maniatopoulos G, Hunter DJ, Erskine J, Hudson B. Large-scale health system transformation in the United Kingdom: Implementing the new care models in the NHS. Journal of Health Organization and Management 2020, 34(3), 325-344.
- Maniatopoulos G, Hunter DJ, Erskine J, Hudson B. Lessons learnt from the implementation of new care models in the NHS: a qualitative study of the North East Vanguards programme. BMJ Open 2019, 9(11), e032107.
- Hunter DJ. Meeting the Challenge of the “Know-Do” Gap; Comment on “CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on ‘Driving Change’ Within the Health System”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2019, 8(8), 498-500.
- Perkins N, Hunter DJ, Visram S, Finn R, Gosling J, Adams L, Forrest A. Partnership or insanity: why do health partnerships do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result?. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 2020, 25(1), 41-48.
- Visram S, Hunter DJ, Kuchenmuller T. Capacity for evidence-informed policymaking across Europe: development and piloting of a multistakeholder survey. Public Health 2018, 163, 54-60.
- Liu D, Mason A, Marks L, Davis H, Hunter DJ, Jehu LM, Smithson J, Visram S. Effects of local authority expenditure on childhood obesity. European Journal of Public Health 2018, 29(4), 785-790.
- Kuhlmann E, Groenewegen PP, Bond C, Burau V, Hunter DJ. Primary care workforce development in Europe: An overview of health system responses and stakeholder views. Health Policy 2018, 122(10), 1055-1062.
- Bambra C, Garthwaite K, Hunter D. Equity effects of health system reforms - report submitted to the Parliamentary Labour Party inquiry into International health care systems. 2014.
- Maniatopoulos G, Hunter DJ, Gray J. The art and science of priority-setting: assessing the value of Public Health England's Prioritization Framework. Journal of Public Health 2020, 50(2), 136-146.