Commission LPHRIAE
The ScotPHN was commissioned by the Public Health Reform Programme Board (https://publichealthreform.scot/) to oversee and deliver the LPHRIAE Commission (attached). Its purpose is:
“to co-ordinate work to plan for a public health research, innovation and applied evidence function at national level within the new public health body; and in turn, describe how this will support and enable activities at the regional and local level across the wider Scottish public health system and engagement with the UK research funding and public health research landscape.”
Further information can be found in the documents on this page.
A Short Life Working Group, formed of key constituencies and independently chaired by David Hunter (University of Newcastle), was established to assist ScotPHN in the delivery of this Commission and undertake the developmental work to facilitate stakeholder discussion. The Commission was required to engage widely with all stakeholders in the development of recommendations to the Programme Board on the future research, innovation and applied evidence functions within the new Public Health Scotland. It was originally conceived that this would be achieved through two ‘consecutive’ events; at the first (August) event, stakeholders sought to understand the current landscape by way of forming a ‘baseline’, discussing the current and potential issues facing these functions and identifying questions and challenges for the SLGW in support of the development of the draft options to the Public Health Reform Programme Board; at the second (Perth event), attendees discussed five ‘propositions’, undertaking a SWOT analysis of each. A third event was then added for ‘end users’ where they discussed the proposed PHRIAE function for PHS and explore implications their work.
The notes taken from Events 1 and 2 are available on this page. The notes from Event 3 will follow in due course.
Event 1
21 August 2018, 09:30 – 15:15 / The Studio, 67 Hope Street, Glasgow, G2 6AE
Event 2
24 October 2018, 10:00 – 15:00 / The Station Hotel, 1 Leonard Street, Perth, PH2 8HE
Event 3
30 January 2019, 10.00-14.00 / COSLA, Verity House, 19 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh
Final Report
The report has now been approved by the Public Health Programme Board and will inform the development of Public Health Scotland. It is available on this page.