Meeting
Public Health Research Programme - Funding Committee Meeting
Date
Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 February 2021
Place
Virtual meeting
Present
Professor Peymane Adab, Chair (Does not vote)
Dr Suzanne Audrey
Professor Janis Baird
Professor Linda Bauld
Dr Derrick Bennett
Dr Frank de Vocht
Dr Matt Egan
Dr Vanessa Er
Dr Karen Exley
Professor Brian Ferguson, PHR Director (does not vote)
Professor Julia Fox-Rushby
Mr David Green (public member)
Professor Judith Green
Dr Ruth Hunter (absent 10:00 – 12:00)
Professor Russ Jago, Deputy Chair
Professor Emma McIntosh
Professor Petra Meier
Professor Paul Montgomery (Day 1)
Dr Graham Moore (absent 11am-12noon)
Professor Sarah Rodgers
Professor Falko Sniehotta
Professor Amanda Sowden
Secretariat
Mrs Kerstin Goodall
Mrs Louise Higgs
Mrs Gemma House
Miss Andrea Ingram
Dr Claire Kidgell
Ms Bernie Newitt
Dr Helen Walters
Apologies
Dr Lorna Aucott
Dr Vittal Katikireddi
Professor James Lewsey
Ms Emma Kinloch
Professor Christopher Owen
Professor Paul Montgomery (Day 2)
Dr Elizabeth Such (Day 1)
Observers/In attendance
Dr Louise Hayes, RDS
Dr Janine Bestall, RDS
Dr Charlotte Clark, ARUP (session 1, item 3 only) Peter Miller, HS2 Ltd, (session 1, item 3 only)
Louise Portelly, HS2 Ltd (session 1, item 3 only)
Ms Rachel Conner DHSC (session 3 only)
Co-opted Members
Dr Julian Flowers, Publilc Health England (session 3 only)
Professor Rob Aldridge, UCL (session 3 only)
Dr Wikum Jayatunga, PC member (session 3 only)
Mr Scott Lloyd, PC member (session 3 only)
Professor Harry Rutter, PC member (session 5, item 2 onwards)
Mrs Rebecca Wilkinson, PC member(session 5, item 2 only)
Day 1 - Session 1
20/14 Studying mental health and wellbeing in HS2 – Stage 2
NIHR132761 Morley
Study into the potential mental health and wellbeing effects of HS2
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Matt Egan
Decision: Fund with Changes
20/108 Fast-track Stage 2 proposal
NIHR133250 Goodwin
GOLDFISH Study: Further exploration of community water fluoridation - Gathering Oral health, Longitudinal Data to assess the risks and benefits of Fluoridation and its ImpactS on Health inequalities. (This is an extended follow up of project 12/3000/40 (An evaluation of a water fluoridation scheme in Cumbria (CATFISH))
Chair: Russ Jago
Conflicts: Falko Sniehotta
Decision: Invite resubmission
19/135 Interactive electronic devices and children and young people's wellbeing - July 2020 – Stage 2 Proposal
NIHR131396 Goodyear
SMART Schools: Smartphones, social Media and Adolescent wellbeing: the impact of school policies Restricting dayTime use
Chair: Russ Jago
Conflicts: Peymane Adab, Paul Montgomery
Decision: Fund with changes
Session 2
Consideration and scoring of 20/32 Researcher-led - July 2020 – Stage 2 proposals (x2)
NIHR131745 Murphy
E-PLAYS (Enhancing Pragmatic Language skills for Young children with Social communication impairment) trial; evaluation of a computerised intervention to promote communicative development and collaborative skills in children.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Brian Ferguson
Decision: Fund with changes
NIHR132158 Dawkins
Effects of e-cigarettes vs usual care for smoking cessation when offered at homeless centres: A cluster randomised controlled trial
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Janis Baird, Linda Bauld(CA), Matt Egan, Brian Ferguson, Graham Moore
Decision: Fund with changes
19/89 Researcher Led – November 2019 - Stage 2 proposal
NIHR129783 Hay
Air Filtration to reduce Respiratory Infections in older people’s care homes: the AFRI cluster randomised controlled trial with nested internal pilot, qualitative and economic evaluations.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Suzanne Audrey, Frank de Vocht, Russ Jago
Decision: Fund with changes
19/134 Researcher-led - March 2020 (19/57 Continuing priority research topics of interest to PHR: Health Improvement interventions of offenders or ex-offenders) – Stage 2 Proposal
NIHR131613 Hunt
Maximising the public health benefits of smokefree prisons
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Janis Baird, Linda Bauld (CA), Matt Egan, Russ Jago, Vittal Katikireddi (absent), Emma McIntosh (absent), Petra Meier, James Lewsey (absent)
Decision: Fund with changes
Session 3
Sub-committee: Peymane Adab, Brian Ferguson, Janis Baird, Karen Exley, Brian Ferguson, Julia Fox-Rushby, Dave Green, Ruth Hunter, Emma Kinloch and Paul Montgomery.
Additional members dialled in for this session: Dr Wikum Jayatunga (PC), Mr Scott Lloyd (PC), Professor Rob Aldridge (co-opted member), Dr Julian Flowers (co-opted member)
20/114 Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice Stage 2 proposals (x 12)
NIHR133585 Tweed
Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice: decision-maker perspectives on the use of cross-sectoral data as part of a whole-systems approach
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Rob Aldridge, Janis Baird, Matt Egan (absent), Frank de Vocht(absent), Vittal Katikireddi (absent), James Lewsey (absent), Emma McIntosh (absent), Petra Meier (CA, absent), Elizabeth Such (absent)
Decision: Fund
NIHR133509 Kane
Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice – exploring the feasibility of an integrated public health lifestyle database for the East Midlands region.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: None
Decision: Decline
NIHR133601Moore
A realist method development and evaluation study to improve local authority data access, linkage and use via open-source data frameworks, data dictionaries, and PPI materials
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Derrick Bennett (absent), Matt Egan (absent)
Decision: Decline
NIHR133634 Franklin
Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Matt Egan (absent), Frank de Vocht (absent), Petra Meier (absent), Amanda Sowden (absent), Elizabeth Such (absent), Brian Ferguson
Decision: Fund with changes
NIHR133648 Wright
Whole system data linkage accelerators: a North-South partnership to unlock public health data
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Rob Aldridge and Julian Flowers
Decision: Fund with changes
NIHR133680 Brophy
Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Vittal Katikireddi (absent), Graham Moore (absent)
Decision: Fund with changes
NIHR133683 Newbury-Birch
An exploration of a person-centred approach to exploring the barriers and facilitators to the collection, linkage and use of maternal and child weight data at a population level.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Scott Lloyd (CA), Falko Sniehotta (absent)
Decision: Decline
NIHR133728 Peat
Unlocking data for musculoskeletal health improvement and disability prevention.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: None
Decision: Decline
NIHR133734 Mayor
Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice: using Scotland's Safe Haven infrastructure to access local authority data sources
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Vittal Katikireddi (absent), James Lewsey (absent), Emma McIntosh (absent), Petra Meier (absent)
Decision: Decline
NIHR133879 Ellison
Facilitating Data Linkage to Support Public Health Decisions (FDL-PHD): Toolkit Development and Evaluation
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: None
Decision: Decline
NIHR133761 Ford
Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice: Exploring barriers and creating solutions for public health intelligence using integrated datasets across Kent, Sussex and Surrey (KSS)
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Rob Aldridge
Decision: Fund with changes
NIHR133792 Shand
Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice: Using the Care City Cohort to enhance council decision making for the benefit of Barking and Dagenham resident
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: None
Decision: Decline
Day 2 - Wednesday 10 February 2021
Present
Professor Peymane Adab, Chair (does not vote)
Dr Suzanne Audrey
Professor Janis Baird
Professor Linda Bauld
Dr Derrick Bennett
Dr Frank de Vocht
Dr Matt Egan
Dr Vanessa Er
Dr Karen Exley
Professor Brian Ferguson, PHR Director (does not vote)
Professor Julia Fox-Rushby
Mr David Green (public member)
Professor Judith Green
Dr Ruth Hunter (absent 10:00 – 12:00)
Professor Russ Jago, Deputy Chair
Professor Emma McIntosh
Professor Petra Meier
Dr Graham Moore (absent 11am-12noon)
Professor Sarah Rodgers
Professor Falko Sniehotta
Professor Amanda Sowden
Dr Elizabeth Such
Secretariat
Mrs Kerstin Goodall
Mrs Louise Higgs
Mrs Gemma House
Miss Andrea Ingram
Dr Claire Kidgell
Ms Bernie Newitt
Dr Helen Walters
Apologies
Dr Lorna Aucott
Professor Chris Owen
Professor Jim Lewsey
Professor Paul Montgomery
Professor Vittal Katikireddi
Ms Emma Kinloch
Observers
Dr Louise Hayes RDS North East and North Cumbria
Dr Janine Bestall RDS Yorkshire and Humber
Dr Rachel Clark, new committee member
Ms Tess McManus, new PPI committee member
Day 2 - Sessions 4 and 5
20/83 Researcher-led - November 2020 - Stage 1 (x4)
NIHR133478 De Vocht
Alcohol Licensing CAse Study Evidence Library (ALCASTEL)
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Suzanne Audrey, Linda Bauld, Frank de Vocht (CI), Matt Egan, Russ Jago, Vittal Katikireddi (absent), Petra Meier, Elizabeth Such
Decision: Decline
NIHR132859 Smith
SAVE: A Study of the health And social Value of wElfare benefits advice services in low income neighbourhoods
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Janis Baird, Matt Egan
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR133118 Harris
Safe inhalation pipe provision (SIPP): Evaluation of an intervention to enhance service engagement and reduce health harms among people who use crack cocaine in England
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Matt Egan
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR133486 James
An Evaluation of the Health consequences of the Bath and Birmingham Clean Air Zones
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: None
Decision: Decline
20/47 Interventions to improve the uptake of the influenza vaccination in carers - November 2020 – Stage 1 proposal
NIHR133455 Patel
FluCare: Evaluating a complex intervention to increase care home staff influenza vaccination rates
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: None
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR132846 Brazzelli
Enhancing assessments of the effectiveness of interventions to alleviate food insecurity and its adverse implications for the health and well-being of families with young children: evidence synthesis and experience-based systems mapping plus network analysis
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Lorna Aucott (absent)
Decision: Decline
NIHR132786 Woodside
Free School Meals, Diet Quality and Food Insecurity in Secondary School Pupils: a Mixed Methods Study
Chair: Linda Bauld
Conflicts: Peymane Adab (CA), Ruth Hunter, Russ Jago, Vittal Katikireddi (absent), Petra Meier, Falko Sniehotta, Amanda Sowden
Decision: Decline
NIHR133145 Bryant
Exploring the accessibility, inclusivity and sustainable impact of community food assets on food insecurity and health: A longitudinal mixed methods study conducted in two multi-cultural populations in the North and South of England
Chair: Russ Jago
Conflicts: Peymane Adab, Amanda Sowden
Decision: Decline
NIHR133329 Surman
A mixed methods evaluation of the impact of a UK community dining project on patron’s mental and physical health
Chair: Russ Jago
Conflicts: Peymane Adab
Decision: Decline
NIHR133340 Lake
Addressing Food Insecurity: Evaluating the impacts, perceptions and sustainability of the eco-shop model
Chair: Russ Jago
Conflicts: Falko Sniehotta, Vanessa Er
Decision: Decline
20/68 Targeted mass media interventions for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic populations - November 2020 - Stage 1 proposals (x3)
NIHR133303 Maynard
Cultural competence and effectiveness of the Better Health mass media campaign in promoting healthy weight related behaviours in Black African, Black Caribbean, Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities
Chair: Russ Jago
Conflicts: Peymane Adab, Elizabeth Such
Decision: Decline
NIHR133564 Husain
Suicide prevention using mass media intervention for British South Asian young people: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis and Process Evaluation
Chair: Russ Jago
Conflicts: None
Decision: Decline
NIHR133575 Georgiou
Communicating for inclusive public health in and after a pandemic: Lessons from the past, trajectories for the future for BAME-targeted health communication
Chair: Russ Jago
Conflicts: None
Decision: Decline
20/84 Continuing priority research topics of interest - round five - November 2020 – Stage 1 proposal
NIHR133123 Pitman
Evaluating the impact of group activity participation on the social connectedness, mental health and suicide risk of middle-aged men: British birth cohort study
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Vittal Katikireddi (absent)
Decision: Decline
Contract Variation Requests (x1)
16/139/01 Griffiths
Investigating the impact of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone on children’s respiratory health
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Vittal Katikireddi (absent), Christopher Owen (absent)
Decision: Support for the secretariat entering into further discussion with the research team to agree the best way forward.
Rapid Funding Scheme proposals (x2)
Subcommittee including: Peymane Adab (chair), Brian Ferguson, Dave Green, Emma Kinloch, Judith Green, Linda Bauld, Falko Sniehotta, Amanda Sowden, Professor Harry Rutter (PC), Mrs Rebecca Wilkinson (PC)
NIHR133768 Shah
A new approach to addressing food poverty in Greater Manchester: baseline data collection
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: None
Decision: Decline
NIHR133798 Aldred
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in London: baseline for a controlled before-and-after study
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Matt Egan (absent), Vanessa Er (absent)
Decision: Fund
20/118 Methodological development in public health - January 2021 –Stage 2 proposals (x3)
Subcommittee including: Peymane Adab (chair), Dave Green, Judith Green, Linda Bauld, Falko Sniehotta, Amanda Sowden, Emma McIntosh, Professor Harry Rutter (PC)
NIHR133603 Thomas
Automatically mapping and assessing inequalities in public health research
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Petra Meier (absent), Elizabeth Such (absent)
Decision: Fund
NIHR133736 Kneale
Handling complexity in evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses of public health interventions
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: None
Decision: Fund with changes
NIHR133824 Franklin
Methodological Development in Public Health
Chair: Peymane Adab
Conflicts: Matt Egan (absent), Frank de Vocht (absent), Petra Meier (absent), Elizabeth Such (absent)
Decision: Decline
Stage 2 Proposals Outcomes table
The PHR Funding Committee recommended the following Stage 2 proposals for either immediate funding or for funding subject to certain conditions.
20/14 Studying mental health and well-being in HS2 – Stage 2
NIHR132761 Dr Katherine Morley RAND Europe Study into the potential mental health and well-being effects of HS2
19/135 Interactive electronic devices and children and young people's well-being - July 2020
NIHR131396 Dr Victoria Goodyear University of Birmingham SMART Schools: Smartphones, social Media and Adolescent well-being: the impact of school policies Restricting dayTime use.
20/32 Researcher-led - July 2020
NIHR131745 Dr Suzanne Murphy University of Bedfordshire E-PLAYS (Enhancing Pragmatic Language skills for Young children with Social communication impairment) trial; evaluation of a computerised intervention to promote communicative development and collaborative skills in children.
NIHR132158 Professor Lynne Dawkins London South Bank University Effects of e-cigarettes vs usual care for smoking cessation when offered at homeless centres: A cluster randomised controlled trial.
19/89 Researcher-led - November 2019
NIHR129783 Professor Alastair Hay Bristol PCT Air Filtration to reduce Respiratory Infections in older people’s care homes: the AFRI cluster randomised controlled trial with nested internal pilot, qualitative and economic evaluations
19/134 Researcher-led - March 2020 (19/57 Continuing priority research topics of interest to PHR: Health Improvement interventions of offenders or ex-offenders)
NIHR131613 Professor Kate Hunt University of Stirling Maximising the public health benefits of smokefree prisons (19/57 Continuing priority research topics of interest to PHR: Health Improvement interventions of offenders or ex-offenders)
20/114 Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice
NIHR133585 Dr Emily Tweed University of Glasgow Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice: decision-maker perspectives on the use of cross-sectoral data as part of a whole-systems approach
NIHR133634 Dr Matthew Franklin University of Sheffield Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice
NIHR133648 Professor John Wright Bradford Institute for Health Research Whole system data linkage accelerators: a North-South partnership to unlock public health data
NIHR133680 Professor Sinead Brophy Swansea University Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practic
NIHR133761 Dr Elizabeth Ford University of Sussex Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice: Exploring barriers and creating solutions for public health intelligence using integrated datasets across Kent, Sussex and Surrey
Rapid Funding Scheme proposals
NIHR133798 Professor Rachel Aldred University of Westminster Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in London: baseline for a controlled before-and-after study
20/118 Methodological development in public health - January 2021
NIHR133603 Professor James Thomas University College London Automatically mapping and assessing inequalities in public health research
NIHR133736 Dr Dylan Kneale University College London Handling complexity in evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses of public health interventions
Stage 1 Proposals
The following Stage 1 proposals have been shortlisted to submit a Stage 2 proposal for consideration by the PHR Funding Committee at its next meeting.
20/83 Researcher-led - November 2020 - Stage 1
NIHR132859 Dr Dianna Smith University of Southampton SAVE: A Study of the health And social Value of wElfare benefits advice services in low income neighbourhood
NIHR133118 Associate Professor Magdalena Harris London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Safe inhalation pipe provision (SIPP): Evaluation of an intervention to enhance service engagement and reduce health harms among people who use crack cocaine in England
20/47 Interventions to improve the uptake of the influenza vaccination in carers - November 2020
NIHR133455 Dr Amrish Patel NHS Norfolk and Waveney CCG FluCare: Evaluating a complex intervention to increase care home staff influenza vaccination rates