Meeting
Public Health Research Programme Funding Committee Meeting
Date
Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th February 2022
Place
Virtual meeting
Present
- Professor Peymane Adab (Chair - does not vote)
- Associate Professor Derrick Bennett (day 1 only)
- Dr Rachel Clark
- Professor Frank De Vocht
- Professor Matt Egan
- Dr Vanessa Er
- Dr Karen Exley
- Professor Brian Ferguson, PHR Director (does not vote)
- Professor Julia Fox-Rushby
- Dr Suzanne Freeman
- Professor Susan Griffin
- Dr Ruth Hunter
- Professor Vittal Katikireddi
- Dr Judi Kidger
- Ms Emma Kinloch
- Professor Jim Lewsey
- Ms Tess McManus
- Professor Graham Moore (Deputy Chair)
- Professor Sarah Rodgers
Secretariat
- Mrs Kerstin Goodall
- Mrs Louise Higgs
- Mrs Gemma House
- MsAndrea Ingram
- Dr Claire Kidgell
- Ms Bernie Newitt
- Dr Helen Walters
Apologies
- Dr Lorna Aucott
- Professor Janis Baird
- Associate Professor Derrick Bennett (day 2)
- Professor Judith Green (day 1)
- Professor Petra Meier (day 1)
- Professor Paul Montgomery
- Dr Maddy Power
Observers
- Ms Rachel Conner (DHSC)
- Dr Charlotte Davies (New trainee member)
- Professor Emma Frew (New Member)
- Dr Sara Southall (Public Health trainee)
- Dr Bronia Arnott (RDS)
- Dr Erica Cook (RDS, PHRADA)
- Dr Louise Hayes (RDS, PHRADA)
- Dr Alison Tedstone (DHSC)
- Ms Irene Moreno Millan (NETSCC)
- Ms Emma Small (Welsh Government)
- Mrs Rebecca Wilkinson (Consultant in Public Health)
Day One
Consideration and scoring of 21/41 PHR Researcher-Led - August 2021- Stage 2 proposals x 3
NIHR135310 Holmes
Evaluating and responding to the public health impact of no and low alcohol drinks: A multi-method study of a complex intervention in a complex system
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Frank de Vocht, Matt Egan, Emma Frew, Susan Griffin, Vittal Katikireddi, Jim Lewsey, Graham Moore, Petra Meier (absent)
Decision: Fund with changes
NIHR135130 French
Interventions to increase vaccine uptake: Systematic review and component network meta-analysis to identify the most effective strategies.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Frank de Vocht, Vanessa Er, Emma Frew, Judi Kidger
Decision: Fund with changes
NIHR135081 Bryant
Evaluation of a sustainable obesity prevention programme delivered at scale ‘HENRY’: Effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and its role in obesity prevention within the wider complex system.
Chair: Graham Moore
Declared a conflict and left the room: Brian Ferguson
Decision: Fund with changes
21/527 Development Award – Local authority-level research priorities on climate change - Stage 2 Proposals x3
NIHR150330 Kovats
Developing a research agenda for health benefits of local climate action
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Matt Egan (absent from this session)
Decision: Fund with changes
NIHR150730 Morris
Exploring the evidence gaps related to the priorities of Local Authorities for mitigating the health and health inequality impacts of climate change.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Sarah Rodgers (absent from this session)
Decision: Fund with changes
NIHR150799 Graham
21/527 Development Award – Local authority-level research priorities on climate change.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Susan Griffin (absent from this session)
Decision: Fund with changes
21/530 Application Development Award – Healthy extended working lives - Stage 2 proposal
NIHR151205 Flynn
Dragons Voice: Addressing worklessness and promoting mental health well-being in the older migrant community
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: none declared
Decision: Fund with changes
21/519 Food insecurity – health impacts and mitigation (Stage 1 proposals x 5)
NIHR150937 Defeyter
Does the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme in Gateshead improve household food security, children's dietary intake, and parents and children's mental well-being?
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: none declared
Decision: Decline
NIHR151034 Bryant
What are the most effective models used by community food assets to prevent the need for emergency food aid? A longitudinal qualitative study conducted in two multi-cultural populations in the North and South of England
Chair: Graham Moore
Declared a conflict and left the room: Peymane Adab, Brian Ferguson
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR151192 Hardman
FINEFOODSpaCE- Food INsecurity: Effectiveness of Food Spaces In Community Liverpool
Chair: Graham Moore
Declared a conflict and left the room: Sarah Rodgers
Decision: Decline
NIHR151094 Lombardozzi
Tackling food insecurity through participatory research into urban food systems
Chair: Graham Moore
Declared a conflict and left the room: none declared
Decision: Decline
NIHR151295 Woodside
Free School Meals, Diet Quality and Food Insecurity in Secondary School Pupils: a Mixed Methods Study
Chair: Graham Moore
Declared a conflict and left the room: Peymane Adab, Derrick Bennett, Matt Egan, Vanessa Er, Emma Frew, Ruth Hunter, Vittal Katikireddi, Sarah Rodgers, Petra Meier (absent), Jim Lewsey
Decision: Shortlist
21/551 Continuing priority research topics of interest to the PHR Programme (Stage 1 proposal)
NIHR151084 Newbury-Birch
A two-arm pRagmatic cluster-randomised Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness analysis of a Self-Efficacy enhancing psychosocial substance use intervenTion compared to treatment as usual for women leaving prison in England: THE RESET PROJECT
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Vittal Katikireddi
Decision: Shortlist
21/564 Dementia Stage 1 proposal
NIHR151036 Stewart
Mid-life PREDICTion of Dementia Risk (PREDICT)
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Suzanne Freeman, Vittal Katikireddi, Jim Lewsey, Petra Meier (absent)
Decision: Decline
Day 2
21/550 Public Health Research Programme researcher-led - Stage 1 proposals x 6
NIHR150724 Gore
A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of Early Positive Approaches to Support (E-PAtS) for families of young children with intellectual disability
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Derrick Bennett (absent), Graham Moore
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR150838 Dobbie
PRoGRAM-A (Preventing Gambling Related Harm in Adolescents): a pilot randomised control trial to prevent gambling harm in young people
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Frank de Vocht, Matt Egan, Vanessa Er, Vittal Katikireddi, Petra Meier, Graham Moore, Sarah Rodgers, Jim Lewsey
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR150876 Costen
LapseWatch - assessing the acceptability of a smart healthcare phone app for smoking reduction.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: none declared
Decision: Decline
NIHR150951 Entwistle
In2Air. The impact of ‘net-zero’ household energy interventions on indoor air quality, health and wellbeing.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: none declared
Decision: Decline
NIHR151235 Anderson
A natural experimental evaluation of the wellbeing, physical activity and economic impacts of the Brent Cross Town urban regeneration project
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Matt Egan, Ruth Hunter, Vittal Katikireddi
Decision: Decline
NIHR151438 Whittaker
The Parents under Pressure parenting programme for families with fathers with an opioid use disorder: the PuP4Dads multi-methods realist evaluation.
Chair: Graham Moore
Declared a conflict and left the room: Peymane Adab
Decision: Decline
21/525 Permitted Development Rights - Stage 1 proposals x 3
NIHR150963 Clifford
Investigating potential health impacts of planning deregulation: The case of permitted development in England
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Matt Egan, Vittal Katikireddi, Sarah Rodgers
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR151104 Cho
Permitted Development Rights, Office to Housing Conversion and Mental Health of Residents
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: none declared
Decision: Decline
NIHR151554 Lord
Funding healthy places? Exploring the connections between permitted development rights and developer contributions.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Matt Egan, Sarah Rodgers , Vittal Katikireddi
Decision: Decline
21/523 Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs - Stage 1 proposal
NIHR151453 McVeigh
Image & Performance Enhancing Drugs Evaluation Study - UK (IMPEDES-UK)
Chair: Graham Moore
Declared a conflict and left the room: Peymane Adab, Frank de Vocht, Judi Kidger
Decision: Shortlist
21/524 Health impacts of housing led interventions - Stage 1 proposals x 3
NIHR151610 Cornes
Ageing in Place: Health Impacts of Housing First for Older Homeless People
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Vittal Katikireddi
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR151649 Hayward
Housing Model Evaluation (HOME) - Improvements in Health associated with changes in housing status for people experiencing homelessness.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: Vittal Katikireddi
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR151656 Goscé
Long-term impact of housing interventions on infectious disease morbidity in homeless people. A modelling and health economic evaluation of Housing First in London.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the room: none declared
Decision: Decline