Great to be at the Prevention Research Conference yesterday! ❤️
Lots of thoughtful discussions on the opportunities and challenges for preventing non-communicable diseases and reducing health inequalities in the UK.
#preventionresearch26
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If you're up for creating more connections between research, policy and practice for health equity, please do link up with PHI UK and our consortia... 👉 www.phiuk.org/contact/foll...
Thank you to everyone for making it such a great event - full of stimulating presentations and discussions that ranged across systems, sectors and settings, from planetary health to the school gates, from AI-powered models to community-driven co-production - and everything in between.
Prof Nick Wareham and Prof Adam Briggs bring Prevention Research 2026 to a close, addressing how we can better join up the funding landscape to create a sustainable and agile research infrastructure for public health research. #preventionresearch26
As we move into the final afternoon at @phiuk.bsky.social, UKPRP, @nihr.bsky.social, #preventionresearch26 our team has three excellent presentations - AI and how modelling can transform policy decision-making - How we are harnessing systems modelling - New tools for policy analyses. Details 👇
New research; Developing guidance on assessing and managing conflicts of interest for a complex public health research consortium; Journal of research Management and Administration; PHI UK / Local Health and Global Profits
Cross-sector collaboration is increasing but how do you protect #research integrity? A new case study led by @ambervandenakker.bsky.social offers step-by-step guidance on designing and implementing conflicts of interest #COI policies for complex research consortiums.
Read more about the launch and Bradford’s Regeneration and Growth Plan
www.phiuk.org/news/place-h... 7/7
Brief 5 – 5 Steps to Inclusive and Sustainable Regeneration.
How can we ensure regeneration is sustainable and inclusive? See the five steps generated from our review. www.phiuk.org/images/conso... 6/7
Brief 4 – How to Make a Healthy City.
See the key considerations needed for a healthy city, drawing on world-leading research from the Born in Bradford programme. www.phiuk.org/images/conso... 5/7
Brief 3 – Breaking Down Silos to Maximise the Health and Economic Impacts of Transport and Urban Regeneration.
Working with multidisciplinary stakeholders to maximise the health and economic impacts of the new station and wider regeneration. www.phiuk.org/images/conso... 4/7
Brief 2 – Community Visions for the Bradford New Station
See local community members' desires for a new station, a station that puts nature first and is a cultural hub integrated into Bradford’s heritage. www.phiuk.org/images/conso... 3/7
Brief 1 – Route to Opportunities
Learn about Bradford’s young people's perspectives on how transport impacts their futures and the need for faster, affordable, well-connected and reliable journeys that help them feel safe and connected to everyday opportunities.
www.phiuk.org/images/conso... 2/7
PHI UK Healthy Urban Places have launched a five-part evidence series to coincide with the Bradford Built Different plan, highlighting how cities can maximise the health co-benefits of regeneration and growth strategies.
Watch an introductory video...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVqE...
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🔬 Our researchers are out in force at #PreventionResearch26 this week! Come and say hello — we'd love to see you there. Full schedule of presentations below 👇
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Good morning. It's the first day of Prevention Research 2026 - Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity
#preventionresearch26
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We're looking forward to seeing everyone - if you're here, come and see us at the PHI UK stand just past the reception desk...
Are you attending the Prevention Research Conference next week? Look out for SARG researchers @charlierosehead.bsky.social and Esther Chanakira who will be presenting advanced modelling work from the @lhgp.bsky.social @phiuk.bsky.social programme. Read more on the SARG website 👇 #PublicHealth
🗓️ Next week at Prevention Research 2026!
🐟 Healthy and Equitable Futures Fishbowl with @pmeierprof.bsky.social: an interactive listening, discussion and critical thinking session asking what a healthier and more equitable future could look like.
🔗 Register by 1st March: preventionresearch26.co.uk
Updated programme available here registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...
It's the last week to register for Prevention Research 2026 - closes 1 March! Join us...
🗓️ 4-5 March
📍 Vox, Birmingham preventionresearch26.co.uk
🪧 Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice for Health Equity
#preventionresearch26
Register: registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...
Join us on 23 March (15:30–17:00) for our upcoming webinar: The Business of Health Misinformation. We will explore how social media platforms are shaping health outcomes and spreading misinformation, and what this means for conflicts of interest between the social media industry and #PublicHealth.
Professor @pmeierprof.bsky.social Director Policy Modelling for Health commented: “We are delighted to have produced this report, which exemplifies the kind of rigorous, policy-relevant modelling that @phiuk.bsky.social Policy Modelling for Health exists to deliver." www.phiuk.org/policy-model...
Montage of the 2026 calendar which exposes UPF and alcohol industry's relentless push for consumption.
Researchers have created a 2026 calendar exposing how #UPF & #alcohol brands manufacture consumption "occasions" year-round. It features Prof Anna Gilmore's framework showing the systemic issue: corporations harm health, but governments pay the costs while private wealth increases.
New #research from authors including @lhgp.bsky.social members shows that spending less on #tobacco, #gambling and #sweets is good for the UK economy: sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/news-media/n...
#PublicHealth #CDoH
We’re hiring! 📣 @uofgshw.bsky.social is recruiting a FT Senior Programme Manager to support our £7.5m consortium - part of UKRI-funded @phiuk.bsky.social network shaping how policy affects health and equity.
📍 Glasgow | 💷 £50,253–£58,225
⏰ Deadline 17 Feb 2026 www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/senior-p...
📢 Next Webinar -Managing Complexity: Leading Large-Scale Research Projects
🗓 Thursday 19 February 2026 | 12:30 pm | 30–40 mins
Petra Meier, our Director on leading large, interdisciplinary research consortia — opportunities, challenges, and practical strategies.
🔗 Register bit.ly/4jNI4Gl
🎥 Webinar recording now available - Thanks to everyone who joined our Lunchtime Webinar -Inside Policy Modelling for Health: People, Partnerships, and Purpose with our Deputy Director Julian Cox. A great overview of our work — and why it matters. ▶️ Watch the recording: youtu.be/Sf2bUkAdsnY
Conversations on CDOH (Commercial Determinants of Health), Dr. Upendra Bhojani, The series aims to foster a dialogue on CDOH by bringing together scholars, practitioners, and thought leaders from India and beyond. The discussions will aim to contextualise CDOH concepts to India’s unique context while exploring how India’s experiences can contribute to and shape global perspectives on these concepts. Episode 4"Public Health & Demerit Goods” Prof. Anna Gilmore, Department forH ealth, University of Bath, UKMs. Jhumki Dutta, Partners in Change, Dr, Sarit Kumar Rout, Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhbanesshwar, Dr. Upendra Bhojani, Centre for Commercial Determinants of Health, Institute of Public Health Bengaluru
👇 A reminder to join the Conversations on Commercial Determinants of Health (#CDoH) webinar this Wednesday, 4 February at 9:30am, featuring @lhgp.bsky.social Director Prof Anna Gilmore.
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#PublicHealth #CDoH
Ultra-processed. Cheap. Low in goodness.
Too many children are still served unhealthy food at school.
Watch our animation featuring Emma Thompson and young campaigners to see the impact and join the call to improve #schoolfood standards 🍽️🌈
🎬 Watch the animation → youtu.be/DEAaBcKx23A
🐣One day...
Final registration closes 1 March. Not ready to register, but want to be kept up to date? Sign up here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
