Background Population-level engagement with public health interventions is needed to achieve impact. Recently, however, there has been evidence of increasing resistance to government-led public health...

A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We've had a great two days connecting with two other NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) Policy Research Units. On Tuesday 27th January, we visited the Policy Research Unit in Dem...

Grimani et al. examine whether prosocial messages can optimise the effect on population behaviour to reduce respiratory infection transmission. Prosocial message interventions, particularly those incl...

We are using antiquated regulations, and are out of step with much of the rest of the world

AbstractBackground. There is growing attention on research and intervention prioritization regarding the social determinants of health to address health in

The National Institute for Health and Care Research Policy Research Unit in Behavioural and Social Sciences among world-class researchers, briefing MPs and parliamentary staff on the latest evidence n...

The government’s decision not to introduce a higher rate tax for the most sugary drinks is good news for industry but not for public health, argue Lauren Bandy and Peter Scarborough In the 2024 autu...

At the beginning of October, all our researchers and co-investigators from across the NIHR Policy Research Unit Behavioural and Social Sciences got together at the University of Bedfordshire in Luton ...

One of our Newcastle-based researchers, Dr Jack Birch, recently attended a workshop on the ‘digital health divide’ at the University of Vienna. “The digital health divide is how digital interventions ...

Objectives Interventions for obesity that require individual behaviour change, such as behavioural weight management interventions, may contribute to health inequalities. We explored if there was evid...

Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

Objectives Interventions for obesity that require individual behaviour change, such as behavioural weight management interventions, may contribute to health inequalities. We explored if there was evid...

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New healthy food standard will see big businesses promoting healthier food and drink