Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer). (360G-Wellcome-087640_Z_08_Z)

To develop effective interventions to improve population health requires a much greater understanding of what works, why, for whom and in what circumstances. This will necessitate the development of epidemiologically and social scientifically Informed complex and multi-factorial interventions that are effective across settings and behaviours; the rigorous evaluation of complex interventions, often using pragmatic controlled trial designs with nested process evaluation and including natural experiments of new policy programmes and the use of routine data to develop and target interventions and to provide sources of data on contexts and long term outcomes for intervention studies. The centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) brings together team of world class researchers with expertise in a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods and intervention technologies to address these issues. Building on a strong track record, along with partners from public health policy and practice, and the public we will develop, test, evaluate and then implement interventions that are effective in improving the health of the population across settings and behaviours and which address health inequalities, with a particular focus on children and young people. We will also provide high quality training programmes to develop skills of public health researchers