Centre of excellence in diet and physical activity public health. (360G-Wellcome-087636_Z_08_Z)

£1,559,515

The proposed Centre of Excellence at the Institute of Public Health, Cambridge focuses on two main themes of the UKCRC initiative by promoting research excellence in public health research related to diet and physical activity. These two behaviours are strongly linked to the rise in non-communicable diseases such as cancer, lschaemic heart disease stroke and type 2 diabetes which are major contemporary public health problems. Rather than tackle these behaviours separately, the proposed Centre explicitly considers them together. The problem of the rising prevalence of obesity demonstrates the need for this approach as any public health solution solely focused on either diet or activity is unlike be successful. The Centre brings together researchers with an established international track record in diet and physical activity research, epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics, behavioural science, intervention development and evaluation. The Centre builds on the strong foundations of expertise in the measurement and descriptive epidemiology physical activity and dietary behaviour, the study of the links between diet and activity and chronic disease and the development of preventive interventions. As a Centre within an existing institute with multiple MRC Unit contributions, there are clear established links to under-pinning methodological research for public health science. The overall goal of the Centre is to develop effective public health interventions for changing population-level diet and physical activity behaviour. The Centre's work is organised around 4 age-defined research programmes aimed at pre-school children; school aged children and adolescents, working age adults and retirement age adults. Within each programme a range research projects is planned, which make use of a core organisation and research infrastructure. The projects range from early work on understanding the determinants of activity and dietary behaviour, through intervention development to evaluation of effectiveness.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 1559515
Applicant Surname Wareham
Approval Committee Board of Governors
Award Date 2008-09-16T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2007/08
Grant Programme: Title Strategic Award - Science
Internal ID 087636/Z/08/Z
Lead Applicant Prof Nicholas Wareham
Partnership Name UKCRC Public Health Research Centres of Excellence
Partnership Value 1559515
Planned Dates: End Date 2014-09-30T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2008-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region East of England