UKPRP News

Tomorrow, the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) will host their annual conference and exhibition.

We’re excited to announce that the UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) will be at the Local Government Association (LGA) 2024 conference!

We are excited to announce that the SIPHER Synthetic Population can now be accessed via the UK Data Service as part of their curated collection. This unique resource offers a ‘digital twin’ of over 52 million individuals in Great Britain, combining various data sources including the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society). To allow easy access to this resource, SIPHER has developed an interactive dashboard.

The event, held at King’s College London on 11 June, focused on “Violence Prevention in Research and Policy: Bridging Silos.” Keynotes by Dr Claudia Garcia-Moreno (World Health Organisation) and Professor Katrin Hohl (City, UoL) addressed necessary changes for effective violence prevention from health and justice perspectives. Around 80 attendees from academia, government, and community organizations participated.

Please save the Date for the ActEarly Spring Conference “Tackling the Wider Determinants of Health: Research into Policy” – 18 April 2024. Registration is now open.

The UKPRP Community of Practice published communications outputs

This Westminster Health Forum conference will discuss next steps for NICE in delivering innovation and supporting clinical practice in health and social care in England. It is bringing stakeholders together with policymakers to evaluate progress on key ambitions outlined in the NICE Strategy 2021-26, and next steps for guideline development following publication of Transforming NICE.   ***Taking place Online, 8:30 – 13:00, Thursday, 14th March 2024***

How can we prevent non-communicable disease and health inequalities resulting from UK city property development and transport planning systems?

The 3rd UKPRP Conference took place on 14&15 November in Edinburgh.

MRC funding opportunity – Expression of interest: Adolescent Health Study call for study sites – UKRI – is now open on UKRI funding finder

The presentations from VISION 2nd annual conference held 21 September 2023 at Mary Ward House in London are now available

Launched just last week, SIPHER new guide provides a comprehensive overview of all current and upcoming SIPHER systems science products.