Centre of Excellence for Public Health
The Centre was launched in 2008 as part of a £20 million investment across the UK to strengthen research into complex public health issues such as obesity and health inequalities. Researchers at the Centre have already made an impact by actively involving the policy makers, practitioners and the public in all stages of their research, in projects like the evaluation of the Connswater Community Greenway, in schools-based trials and in the way they disseminate their results in easily understood language.
In 2013, the Centre was awarded a further 5 years funding which will enable its team to advance their research on what shapes the health and well being of adolescents in schools, on developing better interventions to improve public health and on the broader social and economic forces that help us all “age” well.