The NIHR is one of the main funders of public health
research in the UK. Public health research falls within the remit of a range of
NIHR Research Programmes, NIHR Centres of Excellence and Facilities, plus the
NIHR Academy. /o:p
NIHR awards from all NIHR Research Programmes and the NIHR
Academy that were funded between January 2006 and the present extraction date
are eligible for inclusion in this dataset. An agreed inclusion/exclusion
criteria is used to categorise awards as public health awards (see
below). /o:p
Following inclusion in the dataset, public health awards are
second level coded to one of the four Public Health Outcomes Framework domains.
These domains are: (1) wider determinants (2) health improvement (3) health
protection (4) healthcare and premature mortality./o:p
More information on the Public Health Outcomes Framework
domains can be found here./o:p
This dataset is updated quarterly to include new NIHR awards
categorised as public health awards. /o:p
Please note that for those Public Health Research Programme
projects showing an Award Budget of £0.00, the project is undertaken by an
on-call team for example, PHIRST, Public Health Review Team, or Knowledge
Mobilisation Team, as part of an ongoing programme of work./o:p
/o:pInclusion criteria
NIHR awards are categorised as public health awards if they
are determined to be ‘investigations of interventions in, or studies of,
populations that are anticipated to have an effect on health or on health
inequity at a population level.’ This definition of public health is
intentionally broad to capture the wide range of NIHR public health awards
across prevention, health improvement, health protection, and healthcare
services (both within and outside of NHS settings). /o:p
This dataset does not reflect the NIHR’s total investment in
public health research. The intention is to showcase a subset of the wider NIHR
public health portfolio. This dataset includes NIHR awards categorised as
public health awards from NIHR Research Programmes and the NIHR Academy. /o:p
This dataset does not currently include public health awards
or projects funded by any of the three NIHR Research Schools or any of the NIHR
Centres of Excellence and Facilities. Therefore, awards from the NIHR
Schools for Public Health, Primary Care and Social Care, NIHR Public Health
Policy Research Unit and the NIHR Health Protection Research Units do not
feature in this curated portfolio./o:p
Disclaimers/o:p
Users of this dataset should acknowledge the broad
definition of public health that has been used to develop the inclusion
criteria for this dataset. This caveat applies to all data within the dataset
irrespective of the funding NIHR Research Programme or NIHR Academy award./o:p
Please note that this dataset is currently subject to a
limited data quality review. We are working to improve our data collection
methodologies. /o:p
Please also note that some awards may also appear in other
NIHR curated datasets. /o:p
Further information/o:p
Further information on the individual awards shown in the
dataset can be found on the NIHR’s Funding & Awards website here. Further information on
individual NIHR Research Programme’s decision making processes for funding
health and social care research can be found here./o:p
Further information on NIHR’s investment in public health
research can be found as follows:/o:p
- NIHR
School for Public Health here./o:p
- NIHR
Public Health Policy Research Unit here. /o:p
- NIHR
Health Protection Research Units here./o:p
- NIHR
Public Health Research Programme Health Determinants Research
Collaborations (HDRC) here./o:p
- NIHR
Public Health Research Programme Public Health Intervention Responsive
Studies Teams (PHIRST) here.