Knowledge for Public Health

A map of England with location markers showing the location of LARG members

We have members dotted around England, so if you feel your area is not being represented, please get in touch.

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Knowledge for Public Health - Local Authority Reference Group We are a group of local authority staff who help shape and support the KNOW-PH programme. We also get involved in specific projects. Some of our tasks: To suggest public health and health inequaliti...

Do you work in local authority, public health facing roles and want to get evidence into practice?

Then we want to hear from you!

We have a small group of local authority staff who help shape and support the KNOW-PH programme.

You can get in touch.
www.know-ph.ac.uk/our-collabor...

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Slides
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Video archive
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Full archive @figshare.com

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YouTube video by KNOW-PH - Knowledge for Public Health Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments for housing developments.

The recording and slides from our latest webinar are now online.

Added Value: Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments for housing developers, communities and key decision makers in England.

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Webinar playlist
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AI in research: are we widening health inequalities? - Cost Of Living AI in research: are we widening health inequalities?

I've co-authored a new blog post with some of my former Sheffield colleagues for the Cost of Living Blog.

AI in research: are we widening health inequalities?

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Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments Added Value: Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments for housing developers, communities and key decision makers in England

There's still one week to sign up for your free place to join us at our next @know-ph.bsky.social webinar:
Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments for housing developers, communities and key decision makers in England.
Jan 20 from 1pm to 2pm GMT

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NIHR KNOW-PH Collection This is a collection containing outputs created as part of of the NIHR KNOW-PH project.  Knowledge for Public Health is the NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research-funded public health knowledge mobilisation team. KNOW-PH for short, the team aims to move research evidence generated by NIHR closer to local and national public health decision making.     Find out more here: https://www.know-ph.ac.uk/ NIHR Award ID: NIHR159057

When projects finish, they materials disappear from the face of the web (not that we're going anywhere).

We have our own @know-ph.bsky.social @figshare.com collection of outputs. Infographics, videos, blogs, podcasts, all published CC-BY.

You can view it here.
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Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments Added Value: Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments for housing developers, communities and key decision makers in England

Final shout for this year with our up and coming webinar in Jan 2026.

Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments

Join our own Fiona Marshall and @joelangley.bsky.social on Jan 20th at 1pm

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Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments Added Value: Highlighting the importance of health impact assessments for housing developers, communities and key decision makers in England

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to postpone our next @know-ph.bsky.social webinar.

The new date for this event is Tuesday January 20th at 1pm.

We really hope you can still join us in the new year.

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KNOW-PH Evidence Map - KNOW-PH version | Genially

Our Housing and Public Health Knowledge Interactive Evidence Map highlights @nihr.bsky.social research that connects housing with people's health.

Explore the map yourself and delve into the evidence relating to this very important issue.
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Special thanks to Global Action Plan, Ashtma+Lung UK, Sandwell Council and the WellHome research study for presentations at the event.

If you would like to know more, please contact
matthew.clark@hertfordshire.gov.uk
elizabeth.such@kcl.ac.uk

Archived version
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It was an event where participants explored the KNOW-PH synthesised work and discuss key aspects involved in generating community champions. The KNOW-PH team reviewed the information collected from the evidence base along with key areas of discussion from the event to produce the resource. 8/9

Together the KNOW-PH team and HCC collaborated to focus on how to create cleaner air community champions. The KNOW-PH team considered the existing published evidence base while HCC brought together local authorities across the East of England region.
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Despite the health burden there is still a lack of awareness in the public domain or any national co-ordinated public health cleaner air campaigning available to provide trusted information on the health impacts of short and long term air pollution.
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The Royal College of Physicians 2025 report, 'A breathe of fresh air', estimated that around 30,000 deaths per year in the UK are as a result of air pollution. Alongside this, an economic cost of £27bn in the UK due to healthcare costs, productivity losses, reduced quality of life.
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Air pollution can impact human health, the economy, and the environment. In many instances air quality has been improving in recent years, however poor air quality is still the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK.
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Together, we made sense of the evidence and local knowledge to create a pathway to Clean Air community champions. Our own @lizzysuch.bsky.social worked with Clean Air Champion Matthew Clark from HCC and you can discover the actions and evidence from the workshop found via our mini interactive.
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We brought in evidence on models, roles and the value of champions from @nihr.bsky.social studies; Hertfordshire brought together a network of interested people including charities, elected members and local officials.
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We recently collaborated with @hertscc.bsky.social to explore how community champion roles (in this case, Clean Air Champions) could make a difference to and improve the lives of local residents.

You can find out more via our mini website
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Our own @andytattersall.bsky.social is heading North in December to deliver the keynote for the Social Media for Learning in HE conference.
#AcademicTwitter Is Dead — What Died, What Survived, What’s Next

We propose that there is a need for a shared language and dialogue of health impact assessments, understanding the commercial leverage which HIAs afford for developers, robust community intelligence and the pivotal role housing plays in determining individual and community health outcomes.
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Drawing on evidence we identified areas of practice which could align the process of using HIAs to support the need to consider the building blocks of health as key to long-term gains for developers, decision makers, local economies & communities beyond the completion of new developments.
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A plethora of HIA templates are available, the generic content of which may not meet the needs of key decision makers. This webinar draws on recent workshops we hosted with 3 Local Authorities where NIHR research evidence, practice & policy evidence and experience of HIAs were discussed.
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Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) are often required by Local Authorities (LAs) when submitting planning applications for new domestic housing developments. Developers often experience delays in securing planning approvals as the quality, depth and complexity of the HIAs are often variable.

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@lizzysuch.bsky.social introduced the session and @andytattersall.bsky.social talked about working with @nihr.bsky.social infrastructure to utilise Google Apps, creative tools and @figshare.com to rethink how dissemination, knowledge mobilisation and impact can be done differently.
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YouTube video by KNOW-PH - Knowledge for Public Health Thinking Long Term - Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs

The recording and slides from our Thinking Long Term - Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs webinar are now available online.
@andytattersall.bsky.social talked about using @figshare.com & other platforms as part of a communications strategy.
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Thinking Long Term - Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs In this webinar, we’ll share how the KNOW-PH team has tried to approach how we collaborate, communicate and share outputs differently.

There's still a couple of hours left if you have a free hour this lunch time to come and hear how we're doing research communications and knowledge mobilisation differently as part of a piece of @nihr.bsky.social funded work with our @know-ph.bsky.social

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We have added our Housing and Public Health Knowledge Interactive Evidence Map created by @niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social to our @figshare.com as an interactive PDF. figshare.com/articles/pre...

The web version is here view.genially.com/67ea72e2301c...

KNOW-PH - Knowledge For Public Health | LinkedIn KNOW-PH - Knowledge For Public Health | 288 followers on LinkedIn. Revolutionising the way research is used in public health planning and delivery. Funded by the NIHR. | Knowledge for Public Health is...

If you are on LinkedIn, then feel free to follow and connect with us there as well as here.

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We’ve taken a mixed-methods approach to sharing knowledge in an attempt to open up engagement and increase the chances of @nihr.bsky.social research being seen, understood, and used by those who need it most. It’s still a work in progress, and we’re keen to share what we’ve learned so far. 3/3