NIHR has released the next cut-off date for outline proposals for its Public Health Research call. The deadline is 11th January 2010. Following this proposals will be assessed and shortlisted applicants will have 8 weeks to complete a full bid:

The programme evaluates public health interventions, providing new knowledge on the benefits, costs, acceptability and wider impacts of non-NHS interventions intended to improve the health of the public and reduce inequalities in health. The scope of the programme will be multi-disciplinary and broad.

The main focus of the Public Health Research (PHR) programme’s evaluation of public health interventions will be on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. However, broader impact, as well as acceptability to the target community and wider society, are also important to the impact and sustainability of public health programmes, and, where relevant, will also be investigated.

Applications to the PHR programme will include both primary research and evidence synthesis. The precise methods will need to be appropriate to the question being asked and the feasibility of the research, but we expect the primary research to include RCTs, natural experiments, cohort studies, registry/database studies and qualitative methods.

Please contact us if you are a University of Lincoln researcher interested in this call.