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Evaluations

The Local Authority initiatives selected by NIHR for research input to date have been allocated to one of our six PHIRST teams which are ready to work with local authorities to co-produce research to underpin priority initiatives. The research (but not the intervention itself) which is funded by the NIHR Public Health Research Programme to date includes:

‘Healthy Weight Tayside’, a whole systems approach to child healthy weight in Dundee City

No One Left Behind - Fife

Whole Systems Approach to Diet and Healthy Weight – Community Pilots Project. Scotland

Mindset Teams in the Scottish education system. Scotland

Evaluation of the Scottish Borders/Food Train Eat Well Age Well implementation of the Patient Association Nutrition Checklist

Evaluation of the move to remote models of service delivery by drug and alcohol services in Leeds during the COVID-19 pandemic (Leeds COVID DASE Project)

Evaluation of the North Yorkshire County Council Living Well Smokefree Service: a Hybrid Specialist Stop Smoking Service offering a blend of face-to-face and remote service provision

Greater Manchester Communities Addressing Gambling Harms

Evaluation of the Nottinghamshire Healthy Families Programme Parent/Infant relationship initiative

Evaluation of a public health pathway for alcohol and substance users in the criminal justice setting in Nottinghamshire

Evaluating the Leicestershire Community Kitchen Scheme.

An evaluation of three West Midlands local authority COVID-19 Community Champions programmes delivered in support of the national vaccination effort