DECIPHer Research Capacity Development

Professor Rona Campbell

“To address the almost complete absence of an evidence base on the cost effectiveness of public health interventions, substantial investment will be necessary, backed up by building the capacity of the public health research sector”

Derek Wanless, Securing Good Health for the Whole Population, HMSO, 2004

DECIPHer: Public health research capacity development

• Academic & wider public health community• Enabling capacity development to take

place at a variety of different levelsResearch studentshipsResearch fellow / lecturer postsStructured mentoring and academic learning sets

Placements

DECIPHer: Research posts

Cardiff

• 1 Senior Research Fellow, 2 Research Fellows

Bristol

• 3 Research Fellows

Swansea

1 Research Fellow, 1 Research Assistant

Externally funded fellowships• Walport academic

fellows and lecturers• MRC Population health

scientist & Methodology research fellowship

• MRC/ESRC Interdisciplinary post-doctoral fellowships

• ESRC/MRC/NIHR Early career fellowship in economics of health

• ESRC post doctoral and mid career fellowships

• NIHR Research Training, Post Doctoral, Career Development & Senior Fellowships

Doctoral studentships

• 10 PhD Studentships (4 Cardiff, 4 Bristol, 2 Swansea)5 provided by host institutions

• 38 titles advertised

Department of Social Medicine

Short Courses 2009_10

The University of Bristol Department of Social Medicine is a leading centre for epidemiology, health services research and public health in the UK. We offer a comprehensive short course programme, for

researchers and health care practitioners. All courses are available for CME credits.

ComputingIntroduction to StataAdvanced StataData Management for Health Research Methods using MS AccessGeographical Information SystemsIntroduction to Bioinformatics

Research methodsResearch GovernanceCritical Appraisal of Quantitative ResearchIntroduction to Qualitative Research MethodsHealth Protection Principles and PracticeApplied Health ProtectionQuestionnaire Design & AnalysisIntroduction to Health Economics

Epidemiology and Medical StatisticsIntroduction to Statistics Basic Epidemiology Introduction to Linear and Logistic RegressionRates and Survival AnalysisAdvanced Epidemiological and Stats Methods

Genetic EpidemiologyAn Introduction to Human Genetics Genetic Association StudiesThe Complex Genome

Randomised Trials and Systematic ReviewsSystematic Reviews in Healthcare: Meta-analysis in ContextDesign and Analysis of RCTs

For more information and booking: www.epi.bris.ac.uk/shortc/shortc.htm Email: short-course@bristol.ac.uk

New short courses• Developing and evaluating public health

interventions (4 days)

• Health data and health informatics to support public health research (2 days)

• Advocacy for public health researchers (1 day)

• Public health research ethics (2 days)

Public health research capacity development

Structured mentoringAppointed staff & project staff

Action learning sets

Reading groups

Public health training scheme

Research symposia