Meeting
Public Health Research Programme - Funding Committee Meeting
Date
15 June 2021
Place
Virtual meeting
Present
- Professor Peymane Adab, Chair (Does not vote)
- Dr Lorna Aucott
- Dr Suzanne Audrey
- Professor Janis Baird
- Professor Linda Bauld (absent 3-4pm)
- Dr Derrick Bennett (absent 11-12pm)
- Dr Rachel Clark
- Dr Frank de Vocht
- Professor Matt Egan
- Dr Karen Exley
- Professor Brian Ferguson, PHR Director (does not vote)
- Professor Julia Fox-Rushby
- Professor Judith Green
- Dr Ruth Hunter
- Professor Russ Jago, Deputy Chair
- Professor VittalKatikireddi
- Ms Emma Kinloch
- Professor James Lewsey
- Professor Emma McIntosh
- Ms Tess McManus
- Professor Petra Meier
- Professor Paul Montgomery
- Professor Graham Moore
- Professor Christopher Owen
- 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 Vanessa Er
Observers/In attendance
- Madeline Power – New Trainee Committee Member
- Alan Marshall – NETSCC
- Raquel Nunes – RDS Warwick
- Wendy Wood – RDS Brighton
- Gerry Richardson – PHRADA RDS (attending lunchtime onwards)
- Louise Hayes – RDS Newcastle
- Janine Bestall – RDS Leeds
Session 1
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
Chair: Russ Jago
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Vittal Katikireddi, Sarah Rodgers, Falko Sniehotta
Decision: Decline
20/06 Reducing health inequalities in coastal towns and communities (Stage 2 proposal)
NIHR132682 Gage
Interventions to improve health and reduce health inequalities in coastal towns and communities in England: a mixed methods analysis of effectiveness and costs.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Sarah Rodgers, Falko Sniehotta
Decision: Decline
Session 2
20/83 PHR Researcher-Led - November 2020 (Stage 2 proposal)
NIHR132859 Smith
SAVE: A Study of the health And social Value of wElfare benefits advice services in low income neighbourhoods
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Janis Baird, Matt Egan, Sarah Rodgers, Frank De Vocht, Petra Meier
Decision: Decline
20/47 Interventions to Improve the Uptake of the Influenza Vaccination in Carers (Stage 2 proposal)
NIHR133455 Patel
FluCare: Evaluating a complex intervention to increase care home staff influenza vaccination rates
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Sarah Rodgers, Lorna Aucott
Decision: Fund with changes
20/122 Multi-agency approaches to tackling illicit tobacco (Stage 1 proposal)
NIHR134392 Langley
Tackling Illicit Tobacco (TILT): Evaluation of multi-agency approaches across England
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Linda Bauld, Frank de Vocht, Graham Moore, Matt Egan
Decision: Decline (waive the 12 month resubmission rule)
20/121 Indoor Air Quality (Stage 1 proposals)
NIHR133893 Fylan
Clean Air Interventions Research and Evaluation: Clean AIRE
Chair: Russ Jago
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: None
Decision: Decline
NIHR134443 Symonds
Social Housing, Air Pollution & Equitable Systems (SHAPES)
Chair: Russ Jago
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Karen Exley
Decision: Decline
Session 3
20/119 Public health interventions led by or involving the police - March 2021 (Stage 1 proposals x 6)
NIHR134461 Callender
Assessing police-involved interventions delivered to individuals at risk of mental health crisis.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Brian Ferguson, Gerry Richardson
Decision: Decline
NIHR134055Moore
The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of a Clinical Violence Prevention Team Based in the Emergency Department
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Brian Ferguson, Paul Montgomery, Sarah Rodgers, Amanda Sowden, Gerry Richardson, Graham Moore, Vittal Katikireddi
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR134390 Goodwin
Evaluating the effectiveness of the Blue Light programme delivered by Merseyside Police
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Paul Montgomery
Decision: Decline
NIHR134498 Sidebottom
Interrupting Violence Contagion In Social Networks
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting None
Decision: Decline
NIHR134334 Montgomery
Public Health Evaluations of Police Interventions (PHEVPOL)
Chair: Russ Jago
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Peymane Adab, Paul Montgomery (CI)
Decision: Decline
NIHR134073 Stevens
Police diversion and drugs (PDD): collaborative evaluation of the effects and cost-effectiveness of police diversion of people who use drugs
Chair: Russ Jago
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Frank de Vocht, Brian Ferguson, Paul Montgomery, Gerry Richardson
Decision: Shortlist
20/135 continuing priority research topics (round six) - March 2021 (Stage 1 proposal)
NIHR134519 Martin
Assessing the public health and economic benefits of a Community Initiative to Reduce Crime in the West Midlands.
Chair: Russ Jago
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Peymane Adab, Paul Montgomery
Decision: Decline
Session 4
20/120 Food taxes and subsidies for CVD prevention - March 2021 (Stage 1 proposals x 5)
NIHR133927 Breeze
Health Economic Analysis incorporating effects on Labour outcomes, Households, Environment and Inequalities (HEALTHEI) for food taxes
Chair: Russ Jago
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Frank de Vocht, Matt Egan, Petra Meier, Falko Sniehotta
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR133887 Scarborough
Co-designing food system fiscal policy for healthy people and planet
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Janis Baird, Derrick Bennett, Matt Egan
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR133974 Sassi
Fiscal INCentives for Health improvement: re-purposing consumption taxes on food (FINCH)
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Vittal Katikireddi, Petra Meier
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR134064 O’Flaherty
Co-producing fiscal policy options across the food system in order to improve health and reduce inequalities : The IMPACT fiscal studies.
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Sarah Rodgers
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR134312 He
Distributional health and economic impacts of energy density and salt taxes and associated fruit and vegetable subsidies to inform policy
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Amanda Sowden, Gerry Richardson
Decision: Decline
20/136 Researcher-led March 2021 (Stage 1 proposals x 4)
NIHR133976 Johnson
How strong is the public health case for introducing Universal Basic Income as part of the recovery from COVID-19?
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Brian Ferguson, Falko Sniehotta, Gerry Richardson, Maddy Power
Decision: Decline
NIHR134186 Callaghan
Evaluation of Mental Health First Aid from the Perspective Of Workplace End UseRs – EMPOWER2
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Christopher Owen
Decision: Decline
NIHR134281 Lewsey
PHaCT Trial: Preventing Homelessness, improving health for prison leavers: a Critical Time intervention randomised controlled Trial
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Frank de Vocht, Russ Jago, Vittal Katikireddi, James Lewsey (CI), Petra Meier, Graham Moore, Sarah Rodgers, Amanda Sowden, Emma McIntosh
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR134400 Bode
KeyLo: Investigating traffic clean air zones at key urban locations
Chair: Peymane Adab
Declared a conflict and left the meeting: Suzanne Audrey, Janis Baird, Frank de Vocht, Russ Jago
Decision: Decline