Research funding for public health

Explore funding opportunities and how to get grant funding for public health research.

Current funding opportunities

View current funding opportunities in public health and prevention.

Public Health Research Programme

This programme funds research that generates evidence to improve the health of the public and reduce health inequalities.

Research support service

The Research Support Service Specialist Centre for Public Health can help you develop funding applications. 

Funding to evaluate council initiatives

The Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST) has funding available to evaluate local authority projects.

Latest Public Health Research Programme funding opportunities

Public Health Research

Continuing areas of research interest to the PHR Programme

The Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is accepting Stage 1 applications for topics that we have previously advertised and failed to fund sufficient research in. These represent enduring gaps in our portfolio that we would like to fill with high quality research.

Public Health Research

PHR Programme researcher-led

The Public Health Research (PHR) Programme are accepting Stage 1 applications to their researcher-led workstream.

Public Health Research

NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships rolling call (PHR Programme)

The Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is accepting Stage 1 applications to this funding opportunity.

Public Health Research

NIHR NICE Rolling Call (PHR Programme)

The Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is accepting Stage 1 applications to this funding opportunity.

Cross-programme

Decarbonising the health and social care system

We are interested in building research capacity and generating high-quality research evidence into developing and evaluating innovations focussed on decarbonisation of the health and social care system.

Need help?

Please email publichealthhub@nihr.ac.uk if you haven't found what you are looking or have a question.