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Participation, user involvement & co-production

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Advancing healthcare knowledge through patient and public involvement.

Pathfinder Initiative

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The Pathfinder Initiative, funded by the Wellcome Trust with support from the Oak Foundation, supports rapid progress towards a healthy, zero-carbon society.

Climate Change
Environment
Planetary Health
Economics
London
UK
Research

Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

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Patients’ views are essential to achieving high-quality healthcare. Our PROMs research is helping to improve patient care by evaluating the performance of health care providers and guiding NHS reforms.

Peace Building in Cote d’Ivoire: Formative evaluation

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Western Africa

PENDA: Programme for Evidence to Inform Disability Action

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PENDA is consortium lead by the International Centre for Evidence in Disability, it is focused on creating evidence to achieve long-term improved wellbeing and inclusion of people with disabilities in Low and Middle Income Country's (LMICs), through building knowledge, people and tools.

PERMIT

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PERMIT

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Investigating the effectiveness of different treatments for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.  

Effectiveness of treatments for type 2 diabetes mellitus
Health policy
London
UK
Economics and statistics

PIC4C Scale-Up

PROJECT

PIC4C Scale-up is a collaborative implementation research project to inform and support scale up of the Primary Health Integrated Care project for Chronic Conditions in Kenya and beyond. 

Chronic disease
Cardiovascular disease
Diabetes
Integrated care
NCDs
Implementation science
Evaluation
Kenya
Mixed methods evaluation
Health economics
Operational research
Qualitative research
Epidemiology

Pilot Trial of Good School Toolkit for secondary schools

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Pilot RCT of a complex violence prevention intervention.

Behaviour change
Implementation research
Mental health
Child health
Adolescent health
Complex interventions
Clinical trials
Uganda
Eastern Africa
Epidemiology
Public health
Social science
Anthropology
Psychology

Placing the Public in Public Health: Public Health in Britain, 1948-2010

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This project is funded by a Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities New Investigator Award, awarded to Dr Alex Mold in 2013 and is based in the Centre for History in Public Health at the LSHTM.

Addiction
Cancer
Infectious disease
Non-communicable diseases
Obesity
Behaviour change
Social and structural determinants of health
Physical activity
Europe
United Kingdom
Epidemiology
History
Policy analysis
Social Policy
Sociology

PopART

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A major study in South Africa and Zambia to test a new approach to the prevention and control of HIV in Africa.

HIV/AIDS
Tuberculosis
Clinical trials
Complex interventions
Evaluation
Southern Africa
South Africa
Zambia
Economics
Epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
Social science
Phylogenetics

POPVAC

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How people respond to vaccines, and how well they work, varies between populations.  POPVAC’s goal is to understand these differences in order to identify strategies of improving vaccine effectiveness. 

Adolescents
Children
Vaccinations
Uganda
Immunology
Neglected tropical diseases
Malaria
Tuberculosis

Positive Choices

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Our trial evaluates Positive Choices, a whole-school social-marketing intervention to promote sexual health across 50 secondary schools in England.

Abortion
Adolescent health
Adolescents
Schools
Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
Adolescent health
Evaluation
Sexual behaviour
Sexual health
England
Education
Economics
Health
Implementation research
Realist Evaluation

Praziquantel in Preschool Children (PIP trial)

PROJECT

The Praziquantel in Preschoolers trial (PIP) aims to find the right treatment dose of praziquantel for preschool children living with intestinal schistosomiasis in Uganda.

Eastern Africa

Preventing Violence Against Children in Schools (PVACS)

PROJECT

Training teachers on emotional self-regulation and positive discipline to prevent and reduce violence against children in schools in Nyarugusu refugee camp.

Tanzania
Eastern Africa
Economics

PREVENTT

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A randomised double-blind controlled phase III study to compare the efficacy and safety of intravenous ferric carboxymaltose with placebo in patients with anaemia undergoing major open abdominal surgery.

Promoting inclusion in decent work for Ugandan young people

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Developing an evidence base and platform for action around how violence in childhood and adolescence affects child labour, participation in skills programmes and employment outcomes in Uganda. 

Violence
Adolescent health
Child health
Child labour
Adolescent health
Child health
Child labour
Uganda
Eastern Africa
Epidemiology
Public health
Social science

Protecting children with disabilities

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Protecting children with disabilities.

Disability
Mental health
Child health
Adolescent health
Social and structural determinants of health
Uganda
Malawi
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Epidemiology
Public health
Social science
Anthropology
Psychology

Public Health Humanities

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Understanding, developing, and advocating for the arts and humanities within public health research, training, and practice.

Public health
Public health
London
UK
Worldwide