Population Health Improvement UK

We’re hiring! 📣 @uofgshw.bsky.social is recruiting a FT Senior Programme Manager to support our £7.5m consortium - part of UKRI-funded @phiuk.bsky.social network shaping how policy affects health and equity.
📍 Glasgow | 💷 £50,253–£58,225
⏰ Deadline 17 Feb 2026 www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/senior-p...

📢 Next Webinar -Managing Complexity: Leading Large-Scale Research Projects
🗓 Thursday 19 February 2026 | 12:30 pm | 30–40 mins
Petra Meier, our Director on leading large, interdisciplinary research consortia — opportunities, challenges, and practical strategies.
🔗 Register bit.ly/4jNI4Gl

YouTube video by Population Health Improvement UK Inside Policy Modelling for Health: People, Partnerships, and Purpose Webinar

🎥 Webinar recording now available - Thanks to everyone who joined our Lunchtime Webinar -Inside Policy Modelling for Health: People, Partnerships, and Purpose with our Deputy Director Julian Cox. A great overview of our work — and why it matters. ▶️ Watch the recording: youtu.be/Sf2bUkAdsnY

Conversations on CDOH (Commercial Determinants of Health), Dr. Upendra Bhojani, The series aims to foster a dialogue on CDOH by bringing together scholars, practitioners, and thought leaders from India and beyond. The discussions will aim to contextualise CDOH concepts to India’s unique context while exploring how India’s experiences can contribute to and shape global perspectives on these concepts. Episode 4"Public Health & Demerit Goods” Prof. Anna Gilmore, Department forH ealth, University of Bath, UKMs. Jhumki Dutta, Partners in Change, Dr, Sarit Kumar Rout, Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhbanesshwar, Dr. Upendra Bhojani, Centre for Commercial Determinants of Health, Institute of Public Health Bengaluru

👇 A reminder to join the Conversations on Commercial Determinants of Health (#CDoH) webinar this Wednesday, 4 February at 9:30am, featuring @lhgp.bsky.social Director Prof Anna Gilmore.

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#PublicHealth #CDoH

Ultra-processed. Cheap. Low in goodness.

Too many children are still served unhealthy food at school.

Watch our animation featuring Emma Thompson and young campaigners to see the impact and join the call to improve #schoolfood standards 🍽️🌈

🎬 Watch the animation → youtu.be/DEAaBcKx23A

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Prevention Research 2026 Please express your interest in this conference by providing your details below

Final registration closes 1 March. Not ready to register, but want to be kept up to date? Sign up here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Featuring keynote / plenaries
🗣️ Monika Kosinska
🗣️ Prof Sharon Friel
🐟 Healthy and Equitable Futures Fishbowl with Prof Petra Meier - an interactive listening, discussion and critical thinking session asking what a healthier and more equitable future could look like.

Come to Prevention Research 2026 - peventionresearch26.co.uk

Just two days to go till earlybird registration closes for Prevention Research 2026
🗓️4-5 March 2026
📍Vox, Birmingham
🪧 Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice for Health Equity
preventionresearch26.co.uk
📄 Draft programme now available registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

Our January newsletter went out today highlighting webinars on commercial determinants of health, an upcoming prevention research conference, and new perspectives on tobacco taxation and alcohol licensing.

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Measuring and understanding the impact of population ‘shocks’ on inequities and mental health

Join a @popmhuk.bsky.social & kingscsmh.bsky.social webinar on Thursday 29 January, 12.00 - Measuring and understanding the impact of population ‘shocks’ on inequities and mental health www.phiuk.org/news/events/.... Featuring @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social and Dr Annie Geffery

Contact and subscribe Get in touch with PHI-UK and its research consortia.

Our first newsletter of 2026 is out first thing tomorrow morning. Want it in your inbox? Still time to sign up at www.phiuk.org/contact

Of note... ONS are running a Census 2031 topic consultation. An opportunity to help shape the next Census and future population statistics. consultations.ons.gov.uk/census/censu...

Health inequities are unfair and avoidable differences in health between groups of people, often linked to factors such as income, education, ethnicity, disability or where people live. Reducing these inequities is an important goal for health systems. However, decisions about health services and policies often rely on systematic reviews, and these reviews rarely consider whether interventions work differently for people who experience health inequities. This paper outlines practical ways to include health equity in all systematic reviews, even when equity is not the primary focus. It explains how reviewers can think about equity when planning a review, assessing who was included in studies, analysing results, and interpreting findings. The aim is to help researchers make better use of existing evidence so that health decisions are fairer and more relevant to everyone.

📝New publication from @healthmod.bsky.social
Incorporating an equity perspective in systematic reviews of interventions: potential methodological approaches
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📝New publication from @healthyurbanplaces.bsky.social Reluctant acceptance: Exploring implementation and contextual factors influencing the acceptability of a newly implemented low emission zone in a UK urban setting www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Managing Complexity: Leading Large-Scale Research Projects

💻New @healthmod.bsky.social Lunchtime Webinar 19 Feb 2026, 12:30 - 13:10
❓Managing Complexity: Leading Large-Scale Research Projects
🗣️Prof Petra Meier, Director Policy Modelling for Health 
📝Details and registration: events.zoom.us/ev/AsKYhUt0O...

preventionresearch26.c.uk: Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity: preventionresearch26@gmail.com; linktr.ee/prevention_research_26: Prevention Research Network; Population Health Improvement UK; National Institute for Health and Care Research

👉 Sign up to the Prevention Research Conference in Birmingham, 4-5 Mar, to hear from @monikakosinska.bsky.social, #WHO Global Lead for commercial determinants of health, and Sharon Friel, Laureate Fellow and Prof of Health Equity at the Australian National University: www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...

👉 Scottish Policy and Research Exchange Policy Engagement Essentials Training Workshop. For researchers/knowledge exchange professionals, providing context/understanding on how/when/why to engage Scottish Government & Scottish Parliament with research evidence and expertise spre.scot/spre-events/

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📢 New funding call from Population Research UK! Over £900K available to establish a policy exchange connecting policymakers & LPS researchers. Join our webinar on 28 January to learn more about the scope, expected deliverables and how to apply. Register: shorturl.at/Bf07f

Tomorrow! 👉

Inside Policy Modelling for Health: People, Partnerships, and Purpose

📢Webinar: Inside @healthmod.bsky.social: People, Partnerships, and Purpose
🤵Julian Cox, Deputy Director, Policy Modelling for Health & Assistant Director – Research, GMCA
🗓️20 January 2026
🕛12 noon | 30-40 min
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Inside Policy Modelling for Health: People, Partnerships, and Purpose

Join our first Webinar of 2026 - a fast-paced introduction to Policy Modelling for Health — who, what, and why it matters.
🗓 Tue 20 January, 12–12:40pm
🎙 Inside Policy Modelling for Health with @julescox.bsky.social, our Deputy Director & Assistant Director – Research GMCA.
Register: bit.ly/445i5DK

No Change in Illicit Tobacco Use Following the Introduction of Standardised Packaging? A Longitudinal Online Survey in the United Kingdom - Daniel Jones, Catherine Best, Crawford Moodie, 2025 Background The tobacco industry has argued for decades that standardised packaging would lead to an increase in illicit tobacco use, but this is not supported b...

Happy New Year! New #research from University of Stirling led by @lhgp.bsky.social's Dr Daniel Jones debunks industry warnings that standardised #tobacco packaging increases illicit trade in the UK.

👉 Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#PublicHealth #CDoH

📬 Catch up on what we've achieved in 2025! Our latest newsletter features funding awards, new partnerships, and insights shaping population mental health. Want these updates in your inbox? Sign up here t.co/R5pNmcB4PR #populationmentalhealth #mentalhealth #collaboration #research #innovation

Inside Policy Modelling for Health: People, Partnerships, and Purpose

📢 We're back in 2026 with a fast-paced intro to Policy Modelling for Health — who we are, what we do, and why it matters.
🗓 Tuesday 20 January 2026, 12–12:40pm
🎙 Inside Policy Modelling for Health with Julian Cox, our Deputy Director & Assistant Director – Research, GMCA.
Register at: bit.ly/445i5DK

YouTube video by Population Health Improvement UK When Real is not enough:Synthetic Population in research and policy

Many thanks to everyone who joined last week’s Policy Modelling for Health Lunchtime Webinar “When Real is Not Enough: Synthetic Population in Research and Policy.”
Great talk from Andi and questions! Missed the session or want to rewatch? Watch here: youtu.be/7RBcv3fpQLo

Bringing innovation to life: reflections on Population Mental Health's innovation lab for digital suicide and self-harm prevention PMH Innovation lab brings together researchers, charities, and lived experience voices to develop digital suicide and self-harm prevention solutions.

💡"An interesting day immersed in creative thinking & ideas generation." Our innovation lab brought together people from diverse backgrounds-researchers, charities & those with lived experience—to co-create digital solutions for suicide & self-harm prevention. Read more👇 www.phiuk.org/news/blogs/b...

Improving Population Mental Health Through Collaboration: New partnership between DATAMIND and PHI UK Population Mental Health Consortium - Datamind DATAMIND, the UK’s Mental Health Data Hub funded by the Medical Research Council, is working to improve access to mental health data and strengthen research across the UK. Its mission is to make menta...

🤝We’re pleased to announce a new partnership with
DATAMIND joining forces to improve population mental health & address inequalities across the UK. Read more here👉 datamind.org.uk/improving-po... @phiuk.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @thriveldn.bsky.social @popdatascisu.bsky.social @ukri.org

Local Health and Global Profits responds to Government’s Men’s Health Strategy Local Health and Global Profits responds to Government’s Men’s Health Strategy

Last week's unveiling of England's first Men's Health Strategy is welcome, but without tackling commercial determinants of health - the industries profiting from harmful products that disproportionately affect men - we'll only address symptoms, not root causes.

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An exciting opportunity to join the @phiuk.bsky.social Network working with our consortium partner @popmhuk.bsky.social based @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social - visit www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/131106-...