DECIPHer Research Capacity Development

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DECIPHer Research Capacity Development

• Professor Rona Campbell

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• 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

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DECIPHer Public health research capacity
development

• Academic wider public health community
• Enabling capacity development to take place at a
  variety of different levels
• Research studentships
• Research fellow / lecturer posts
• Structured mentoring and academic learning sets
• Placements

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DECIPHer Research posts

• Cardiff
• 1 Senior Research Fellow, 2 Research Fellows
• Bristol
• 3 Research Fellows
• Swansea
• 1 Research Fellow, 1 Research Assistant

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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

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Doctoral studentships

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

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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.
Computing Introduction to Stata Advanced
Stata Data Management for Health Research Methods
using MS Access Geographical Information
Systems Introduction to Bioinformatics Research
methods Research Governance Critical Appraisal of
Quantitative Research Introduction to Qualitative
Research Methods Health Protection Principles and
Practice Applied Health Protection Questionnaire
Design Analysis Introduction to Health
Economics
Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Introduction
to Statistics Basic Epidemiology Introduction
to Linear and Logistic Regression Rates and
Survival Analysis Advanced Epidemiological and
Stats Methods Genetic Epidemiology An
Introduction to Human Genetics Genetic
Association Studies The Complex
Genome Randomised Trials and Systematic
Reviews Systematic Reviews in Healthcare
Meta-analysis in Context Design and Analysis of
RCTs
For more information and booking
www.epi.bris.ac.uk/shortc/shortc.htm Email
short-course_at_bristol.ac.uk
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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)

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Public health research capacity development

• Structured mentoring
• Appointed staff project staff
• Action learning sets
• Reading groups
• Public health training scheme
• Research symposia