PHIRN Research Evidence for Policy Seminar Series

PHIRN, in partnership with the Welsh Assembly Government, is running a free quarterly seminar series. The Evidence for Policy Seminar Series aims to make a major contribution to maximising the relevance of research for policy and facilitating evidence based policy for health improvement by bringing together key academics, practitioners and policy makers.

Seminar Ten - The impact of the built environment on health - 27th March 2009

• Elaine McNish - Food and physical activity and the built environment - a Welsh Assembly perspective.
• Dr Sarah Rodgers - Evidence linking the built environment to physical activity.
• Dr Stephen Monaghan (Public Health Director) and Susan Toner - Supporting the implementation of a healthy urban planning approach at a local level: progress and challenges.

Seminar Nine - The Challenge of Adolescent Smoking: research, policy and practice - 15th December 2008

• Sue Bowker / Chris Tudor-Smith - Policy context and development in adolescent smoking prevention and cessation
• Daniel Clayton - The Ffaith programme and implications for policy and practice
• Professor Laurence Moore - Building on ASSIST: the potential of informal peer led approaches to smoking prevention and cessation
• Amanda Amos - Priorities for adolescent smoking prevention and cessation research and practice: The Way Forward

Seminar Eight - The school environment and health improvement - 19th September 2008

• Dr Lyndal Bond - Rethinking health promotion in schools: Lessons from the Gatehouse Project
• Dr Chris Bonell - Experiences and preliminary findings from a feasibility study of an intervention to promote inclusive school social environment and reduce substance use
• Dr Michael Shepherd - Review of the Welsh Network of Healthy Schools Schemes
• Chris Roberts - School health promotion- setting the scene

Seminar Seven - The social determinants of child health - directions for research and policy - 2nd April 2008.

In collaboration with the All Wales Alliance for Research and Development in Health and Social Care (AWARD)

• Dr Alison Weightman - A systematic review of social determinants of child health
• Prof Ingrid Schoon - Socio-economic adversity, family processes, and child development. Evidence from three British Birth Cohorts
• Dr Michael Shepherd - Social determinates of child health and policy development

Seminar Six - Communities as resources for health improvement: assets based approaches to research, policy and practice - 22nd October 2007.

• Antony Morgan - Revitalising the Public Health Evidence Base: An Asset Model
• David Fone - Social cohesion, area income deprivation and common mental disorder
• Barbara Castle - Measuring health at community level - complexity and entanglement

Seminar Five - Physical activity and the importance of environment and context - 8th February 2007.

• Len Almond - Challenging Current Practice in Physical Activity Promotion.
• Professor Lamine Mahdjoubi - Outdoor design issues and challenges for promoting youth's physical activity.
• Dr Ashley Cooper - Children’s activity: travel to school and the environment.

Seminar Four - Tackling alcohol misuse: setting the scene for research priorities - 5th December 2006.

• Professor Martin Plant - Binge Britain: Prevention in Context: Recent Trends & Current Policies
• Professor David Foxcroft - Evaluating Drug and Alcohol Misuse Prevention: Moving from Evidence of Efficacy to Issues of Cost-effectiveness and Cost-benefit.
• Professor Jonathan Shepherd - Preventing Alcohol Related Violence

Seminar Three - Tackling Obesity: the importance of the food environment - 3rd October 2006.

• Dr Tony Jewell - Chief Medical Officer for Wales
• Tim Marsh - Reshaping the environment - The battle for the 9pm Watershed – Public health advocacy versus commercial intransigence
• Dr Steven Cummins - Can improving the local food environment reduce obesity? Evidence and research priorities from the UK and USA
• Dr Eva Elliott - Action and health improvement: the case of community food co-ops in Wales

Seminar Two -Launch of the Public Health Improvement Research Network (PHIRN) - 16th February 2006. To see the programme of the day click here

Seminar One - Concepts and Contexts - 13th October 2005. To see the programme of the day click here