The East of England Population Health Research Hub 2022 - 2023 Strategic Plan projects included:
EoE PHResH captured the challenges, solutions, and key learnings on what worked in creating a regional hub of engagement. This included evaluating different approaches through engagement with Hub partners and using insights to inform the development of other hubs in other regions.
The Hub aimed to:
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Collaborate with other regional hubs at various stages of development to outline overarching principles for what worked in developing regional hubs of engagement.
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Identify opportunities to test and refine the application of these principles through collaborations with other regions.
The EoE PHResH Evaluation Working Group brought together evaluation expertise from across the region to promote learning and help build evaluation capacity in local authorities.
Through the Evaluation Working Group, the Hub aimed to:
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Understand regional evaluation assets and needs through surveys and mapping exercises.
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Deliver seminars, workshops, and drop-in clinics to stimulate culture change and upskill practitioners.
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Signpost to existing resources and develop practical tools.
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Identify opportunities for funding and resources to meet local evaluation needs.
EoE PHResH aimed to develop deep insights into local needs and assets through the co-design of a regional research strategy with local authorities, academia, DHSC OHID, NHS, UKHSA, and community representatives.
This regional research strategy sought to:
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Understand regional research needs, priorities, capacities, and assets.
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Effectively disseminate and translate ongoing research to inform local authority plans.
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Facilitate input into upcoming research to enhance alignment with local needs.
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Connect practitioners with common needs to academics with relevant expertise.
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Identify synergies and gaps in research needs across the region, highlighting areas requiring funding proposals or Hub support.
Improving population health requires an interdisciplinary approach to address the complex underlying causes of health challenges and inequalities.
EoE PHResH explored how it could facilitate a Health in All Policies approach within local authorities by working with a case study in collaboration with a local authority to:
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Facilitate connections that drew on evidence from teams across the local authority.
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Establish links to relevant interdisciplinary researchers through EoE PHResH academic partners.
Recent changes to the organisation of the public health system provided an opportunity to understand how best to bring together its diverse elements to effectively integrate population health research with health and social care delivery.
To explore this, EoE PHResH aimed to:
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Develop and test a systems model to understand how regional hubs of engagement could foster relationships and collaborations. This model examined how different elements of the complex public health system—within a region, between regions, and between regional and national levels—could work together to support evidence-informed population health approaches.
