Date
24 January 2024
Venue
Virtual meeting via MS Teams
Present members
- Brian Ferguson - Chair and Programme Director, does not vote
- Victor Agbontean – Public member
- Jo Bibby (until 3pm)
- Julie Bishop – Deputy Chair
- Ruth Chambers
- Rachel Clark
- Alisha Davies (from 10.15am)
- Catherine Falconer (9.45 to 3pm)
- Naomh Gallagher
- Susan Hampshaw
- Farrah Hart
- Emily Humphreys
- Louise Hurst
- Wikum Jayatunga
- Gerry McCartney (until 2.45pm)
- Nikki Morris
- Kay Nolan (from 1.15pm) – Deputy Chair
- Philippa Osei – Public member
- David Pye (until 1:45pm)
- Garth Reid
- Nigel Riglar
- Emily Slade – Public member
- Joanne Smithson
- Paul Southon
- Jean Spencer – Public member
- Samantha Start
- Humera Sultan (am only)
- Michael Thomas-Sam
- John Wilderspin
- Becky Wilkinson (until 3pm)
New members observing
- Dmitri Nepogodiev
DA representatives
- Nicola Armstrong- Public Health Agency Northern Ireland
Standing observers
- Naomi Beaumont- ESRC
- Andrew Crawford – MRC
Other observers
- Melanie Barker - DHSC
- Louise Hayes - PHRADA
- Chloe Montague – NIHR consultant advisor
- Stef Williams - PHRADA
Secretariat
- Claire Kidgell
- James Morris
- Helen Walters
- Lauren Wileman
- Gemma House
- Zoe McCrossan
- Louise Higgs
- Caitlin van Abeelen
- Kerstin Goodall
Apologies Members
- Adam Briggs
- Mark Gamsu
- Rachel Thomson
Apologies standing observers and devolved administration representatives
- Tom Barlow – Scottish Government
- Jane Barrett – DHSC
- Michael Bowdery – Welsh Government
- Rachel Conner - DHSC
Quoracy information
- Voting members: 32
- Voting members present: 29 (90.6%)
Committee Comments
Shortlisting of Stage 1 proposals
23/85 Commercial determinants of health
NIHR163491
The TARGETED study: Tackling inequalities of commercial practices to sell unhealthy foods and drinks in England
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict and left the room: Emily Humphreys and Garth Reid
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR164352
Countermarketing against the products and activities of unhealthy commodity industries: effectiveness, mechanisms and inequalities
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict and left the room: Emily Humphreys and Garth Reid
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR164380
Reducing Exposure to Unhealthy Foods (RETUF)
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR164654
Understanding the IMpact of e-cigarette PRIce interventions on the consumption of new Nicotine products and Tobacco (IMPRINT study
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict and left the room: Garth Reid; Julie Bishop
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR163524
Retail Environment Actions for Consumer Health (REACH) in the food domain
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Shortlist
23/83 Workforce health
NIHR163059
Cycle Nation: a cluster-randomised controlled trial of a multi-component workplace intervention to increase cycling participation
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict and left the room: Gerry McCartney
Decision: Decline
23/84 Health and health inequality impacts of voucher and benefit uptake
NIHR163872
Understanding non-take-up of Pension Credit and evaluating strategies to effectively boost it
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Shortlist
23/82 Suicide prevention in high risk groups
NIHR160626
An exploratory study of Safety Plans as a suicide prevention intervention for people on probation
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Decline
NIHR164507
Research into Scottish nursing SUicide and Mental health Experiences (RESUME) study 1980-2022
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: Rachel Thomson (gave apologies)
Decision: Decline
NIHR164761
Suicide prevention in a high-risk group: modifying a crisis support service (Shout) with and for autistic people
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Decline
23/86 Reducing health inequalities related to ethnicity by influencing the wider determinants of health
NIHR164179
Empowering Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Women's Groups to reduce health inequalities: Active deployment of local champions to influence the wider determinants of health
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Shortlist
23/88 Uptake of population screening programmes in under-served groups
NIHR164073
Equity through the ages (EQUITA)- a life course approach to tackling health inequities in the Black community: a feasibility trial of a co-produced, community-centred and faith-placed intervention to increase uptake of population screening
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR164908
A community champion led breast cancer screening intervention for underserved groups
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Shortlist
23/125 Researcher-led
NIHR163321
Text message support plus tailored advice on flavour vs. no support for smoking cessation using vapes with unrestricted vs. restricted flavour choice: A factorial randomised controlled trial
Chair: Kay Nolan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Brian Ferguson
Decision: Decline
NIHR164518
Exploring systemic therapy interventions for resettled refugee families: identifying best practice in the North of England
Chair: Kay Nolan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Brian Ferguson
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR164565
Investigating the role of community assets in preventing and alleviating loneliness across sub-populations in Medway: A mixed-methods study using Geographical Information Systems, asset mapping and qualitative exploration
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR163726
HEaLth iMpact of E-bikes and e-scooTers (HELMET
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR163401
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: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Decline
NIHR163264
Examining credibility of current evidence for welfare as a public health measure: pathways, causation and cost-benefit of further research
Chair: Julie Bishop
Declared a conflict and left the room: Brian Ferguson
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR163209
Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of a smoking cessation smartphone app that delivers real time ‘context aware’ behavioural support: the Quit Sense 2 randomised controlled trial
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Decline
NIHR162738
Sports Injury Prevention in Scottish Schools (SIPSS). Reducing sport-related injury and concussion, and protecting long-term health of children across communities in Scotland
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: Rachel Thomson (gave apologies)
Decision: Decline
NIHR164356
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an emotional literacy programme (Zippy’s Friends) for children with intellectual disabilities in special schools (ZF-SEND): a cluster randomized controlled trial
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Decline
NIHR164646
Transformative Healthy New Towns? An evidence-based assessment of impacts on health and wellbeing, and health inequalities
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: Adam Briggs (absent)
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR165140
Longitudinal impacts of having no recourse to public funds
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR164789
Community social eating initiatives: Impacts on social isolation, food insecurity, nutrition and health
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Shortlist
Commissioned workstream - Consideration and shortlisting of 3 research briefs
Brief 1: Developer contributions
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Approve for advert subject to committee comments
Brief 2: Healthy homes: Overcrowding
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: Emily Humphreys and Susan Hampshaw declared a conflict of interest in the research area.
Decision: Approve for advert subject to committee comments
Brief 3: The health of children and young people in contact with the criminal justice system
Chair: Brian Ferguson
Declared a conflict: None
Decision: Approve for advert subject to committee comments