Mapping public health research across the National Institute for Health Research 2006–2013

Guegan, Eleanor Woodford; Dorling, Hannah; Ollerhead, Liz; Westmore, Matthew

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“…Given the lack of standardized databases on 'impact' alluded to earlier, we have also had to select a source of data for impact based on projects funded by a single funder, the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR funds a variety of health and care research and is one of the main sources of funding in the UK for public health research [21]. The NIHR has two funding streams that explicitly name public health within their titles: the School for Public Health Research (a partnership between eight academic centres with excellence in applied public health research in England) and the NIHR Public Health Research Programme (that provides funding for research on non NHS interventions to improve public health), and we sought to identify projects that included these two funding mechanisms and beyond.…”

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“…This mapping exercise sought to analyse the portfolio since the NIHR's formation in 2006, and identify gaps in evidence. The outcomes of the mapping exercise have been published for studies funded up to 2013 [21]. The database provided to us for our analysis by the PHO team in early 2017 covers the period 2000-March 2016, and we are aware that the database and its working definitions are continually updated.…”

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Mechanisms and pathways to impact in public health research: a preliminary analysis of research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

Boulding

Kamenetzky

Ghiga

et al. 2020

BMC Med Res Methodol

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Background: The mechanisms and pathways to impacts from public health research in the UK have not been widely studied. Through the lens of one funder (NIHR), our aims are to map the diversity of public health research, in terms of funding mechanisms, disciplinary contributions, and public health impacts, identify examples of impacts, and pathways to impact that existing reporting mechanisms may not otherwise have captured, and provide illustrations of how public health researchers perceive the generation of non-academic impact from their work. Methods: A total of 1386 projects were identified as 'public health research' by the NIHR and listed in the NIHR Public Health Overview database (2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016). From these, a subset of 857 projects were matched as potentially having begun reporting impacts via an external data-gathering platform (Researchfish). Data on the 857 projects were analyzed quantitatively, and nine projects were selected to investigate further through semi-structured interviews with principal investigators. Two workshops took place to validate emerging and final findings and facilitate analysis.Results: In addition to the NIHR School for Public Health Research and the NIHR Public Health Research Programme, 89% of projects contained in the NIHR Public Health Overview portfolio as 'public health research' are funded via other NIHR research programmes, suggesting significant diversity in disciplines contributing to public health research and outcomes. The pathways to impact observed in our in-depth case studies include contributing to debates on what constitutes appropriate evidence for national policy change, acknowledging local 'unintended' impacts, building trusted relationships with stakeholders across health and non-health sectors and actors, collaborating with local authorities, and using non-academic dissemination channels. Conclusions: Public health as a discipline contributes substantially to impact beyond academia. To support the diversity of these impacts, we need to recognise localized smaller-scale impacts, and the difference in types of evidence required for community and local authority-based impacts. This will also require building capacity and resources to enable impact to take place from public health research. Finally, support is required for engagement with local authorities and working with non-health sectors that contribute to health outcomes.

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Mechanisms and pathways to impact in public health research: a preliminary analysis of research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

Boulding

Kamenetzky

Ghiga

et al. 2020

BMC Med Res Methodol

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“…The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is a major funder of health research in the UK and funds research to improve the health and the wealth of the nation [ 1 ]. The NIHR is an important funder of public health research [ 2 ], and one route for this is via the Public Health Research (PHR) programme. Established in 2008, the PHR programme funds research to evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions that take place outside of the National Health Service (NHS) to inform delivery and improve the health of the public and reduce health inequalities.…”

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Researchers’ perspective of real-world impact from UK public health research: A qualitative study

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Research funded by the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research Programme is being undertaken in a complex system which brings opportunities and challenges for researchers to maximise the impact of their research. This study seeks to better understand the facilitators, challenges and barriers to research impact and knowledge mobilisation from the perspective of UK public health researchers. A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews, informed by the Payback Framework, with public health researchers who held a research award with the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research programme up to March 2017 was conducted. Following a thematic analysis, three strongly interlinked themes were extracted from the data and three key factors were highlighted as important for facilitating knowledge mobilisation and impact in UK public health research: (1) Public health researcher’s perception of the purpose of the research (2) Approaches to undertaking Knowledge mobilisation activities (3) The complex nature of public health research in the wider research context. These have been reflected onto the Payback framework. Public health researchers can maximise the likelihood for impact by being aware of the context in which they are undertaking research, using different methods, and employing several strategies to take advantage of opportunities. There is a need to support researchers with knowledge mobilisation activities and for funders to identify their expectations of the impact resulting from research. Our findings have relevance to public health researchers and funders interested in increasing the benefit that research brings to society.

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“…The Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe project represents perhaps the most in-depth research on European public health research funders [ 2 ]. Additional studies have focused on the research funding priorities of individual funding organisations, like the National Institutes for Health Research (NIHR) [ 3 , 4 ], the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [ 5 ] and the United States National Institutes for Health [ 6 ]. Given that priority funding areas are identified and refreshed more or less frequently, the published literature, while historically interesting, does not offer insight into the current priority-driven funding trends.…”

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Priority-setting in public health research funding organisations: an exploratory qualitative study among five high-profile funders

Cartier

Creatore

Hoffman

et al. 2018

Health Res Policy Sys

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BackgroundPriority-driven funding streams for population and public health are an important part of the health research landscape and contribute to orienting future scholarship in the field. While research priorities are often made public through targeted calls for research, less is known about how research funding organisations arrive at said priorities. Our objective was to explore how public health research funding organisations develop priorities for strategic extramural research funding programmes.MethodsContent analysis of published academic and grey literature and key informant interviews for five public and private funders of public health research in the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States and France were performed.ResultsWe found important distinctions in how funding organisations processed potential research priorities through four non-sequential phases, namely idea generation, idea analysis, idea socialisation and idea selection. Funders generally involved the public health research community and public health decision-makers in idea generation and socialisation, but other groups of stakeholders (e.g. the public, advocacy organisations) were not as frequently included.ConclusionsPriority-setting for strategic funding programmes in public health research involves consultation mainly with researchers in the early phase of the process. There is an opportunity for greater breadth of participation and more transparency in priority-setting mechanisms for strategic funding programmes in population and public health research.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12961-018-0335-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Mapping public health research across the National Institute for Health Research 2006–2013

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Mechanisms and pathways to impact in public health research: a preliminary analysis of research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

Mechanisms and pathways to impact in public health research: a preliminary analysis of research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

Researchers’ perspective of real-world impact from UK public health research: A qualitative study

Priority-setting in public health research funding organisations: an exploratory qualitative study among five high-profile funders

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