Public Health Review Team

Welcome to our Public Health Review Team project library

Between 2019 and 2025, the NIHR Public Health Review Team undertook review projects on eleven different topics prioritised by the Public Health Research Programme and the Prioritisation Committee. The topics included in the programme were: gambling related harm, working in later life, working from home, access to services for ethnic minority populations, parenting programmes, warmer homes, student mental health, housing insecurity, alcohol licensing, local interventions to reduce air pollution and use of health impact assessment to inform spatial planning. 

Individual project outputs were used to inform both primary research commissioning calls and public health policy development. Research reports, research summaries and other outputs were widely distributed to both public and professional audiences. The programme benefited from high levels of engagement from public panels and from professional involvement by a wide range of practitioners as well as engagement with topic experts and policymakers.

The involvement of appropriate and highly engaged public and professional stakeholders through the evidence synthesis process ensured the development of review outputs for maximum quality and usefulness to decision makers. Commissioning highly experienced and flexible evidence synthesis teams and ensuring effective engagement with key stakeholders is an efficient approach to the delivery of timely, high-quality reviews and contribute to maximising the impact on population health and health inequalities.

If you have any queries about the projects or documents held on these pages, please contact katie.lewis@sheffield.ac.uk