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- Detailed data on the dates of regulatory approval and cost-effectiveness appraisal of medicines and medical technologies.
- The history of epidemics, pandemics and their aftermath. What lessons for recovery from coronavirus can we learn from past recoveries from pandemics or other major crises
- How can policing best assess and evidence the benefits of crime prevention initiatives?
- Does work-related ill health have any impacts and consequences for individuals and society, including human costs, costs of ill health and impacts upon productivity and employment?
- What can we learn from the COVID-19 shielding programme and other programmes that supported our most vulnerable groups during the pandemic? What were the costs and benefits of different interventions?
- How is climate change affecting the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases, and how can we become more resilient to these outbreaks?
- What methods and expertise can policing utilise from evaluation programmes in education and health?
- Detailed data on uptake and access of medicines and medical technologies at the level of each commissioning unit.
- How is data and evidence used to identify and evaluate interventions that have appropriate and targeted impact on the health and safety system in the short, medium and long term?
- How can it be ensured that our regulatory approach accommodates future trends in new technologies and health and environmental hazards?
- What is the impact of long COVID on transport accessibility?
- Maximising the efficiency of partnership working in relation to issues concerning mental health
- How can education and care sectors best respond to environmental climate related risks or future pandemics to limit the impact on education?
- Analyse the value of AHT sector work on public health.
- How can it be ensured that there is sufficient evidence to support an effective and efficient approach to regulatory policy and risk assessment e.g. for the management of existing, new and emerging health risks from chemicals and to enable the safe and sustainable use of chemicals?
- What works in improving youth outcomes?
- Evidence on the burden of disease associated with each of these disease areas, including both mortality data and quality of life adjustments.
- Evidence on inequality of access to and benefit from treatments.
- How effective have whole school/college approaches to improving student mental health and wellbeing been? What factors underpin the most effective whole school/college approaches? How can schools/colleges effectively measure the impact of these approaches?
- Patient safety remains a critical issue in health care.
- Osteoporosis is a major public health concern.
- Violence against women (VAW) is a vast public health problem in Latin America.
- Overweight is increasing in the adolescent population and became a public health problem in the world.
- Smoking cessation is a major public health issue.
- Stunting cases in infants in Indonesia continue to be a maternal and child health problem.
- The accumulating effects of human development are threatening water quality and availability.
- The increase in work-related health problems is a cause of concern for researchers worldwide.
- Good access to health facilities providing good first-level health care remains problematic in many developing countries.
- Increasing life expectancy and years of life without disease is one of the most important issues in health.
- Although public health physicians have shown interest in ethical dilemmas relating to specific problems within the specialty, few have addressed the central ethical dilemma in public health, namely the conflict between the rights of the individual and the responsibilities of society for all its members.
- Hearing loss is one of the biggest health problems in the world and occupational noise-induced hearing loss is recognized as the most common work-related illness.
- Unique challenges posed by complex public health emergencies have often called for institutions, responsible for restoring health, well-being, and order among affected populations, to realign their operating procedures and work in concordance with each other.
- In the United Republic of Tanzania, as in many regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, staff shortages in the healthcare system are a persistent problem, particularly in rural areas.
- What works in improving the skills, employability and wellbeing of young people?
- Reliable estimates of the relative productivity of the different factors in the health production function for the NHS.
- Develop methods to assess personal exposure to air pollution and noise at a range of spatial scales and quantify health impacts and costs
- Detailed data on the price per QALY associated with each medicine and medical technology purchased by the NHS.
- How does exposure to biodiverse environments link to human microbiome diversity and shape health outcomes?
- What is the feasibility of developing an Occupational Exposure and Control system to provide intelligence on trends over time in exposure to respiratory hazards and control measures, with a particular focus on Respiratory Crystalline Silica (RCS)?
- How can health and safety systems be improved by effectively linking, utilising and analysing new and current data sets on accident and incident investigation activities?
- Analysis of possible reforms to the WHO and of measures to improve implementation of the International Health Regulations
- What are the population-level impacts of sublethal pesticide and other chemical exposure in the environment?
- How do we deploy emerging technologies to move from post-disease/outbreak surveillance to pre-emergence surveillance and mitigation of risks?
- Evidence on inequality of the impact of the diseases across different population groups.
- Estimates of the benefit and impact of introducing new technologies and therapeutics to the NHS.
- Evidence on the prevalence of long-term conditions associated with the disease areas covered by the healthcare missions (cancer, ageing, dementia, mental health, respiratory disease, obesity, addiction). Further, we would like to understand what links exist between these disease areas: whether there are mutual risk factors or whether any of these disease areas are a risk factor for another.
- What are the impacts of foodborne pathogens and how can we reduce them?
- What is the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment and within food systems, and to what extent is this facilitating the development and transmission of AMR between animal and human populations?
- What does the latest evidence show in terms of how best to deliver net zero and also bring health benefits, such as improved air quality? Can better metrics be developed for monetising the health benefits of the move to net zero homes that can be used in business case appraisals?
- How can we quantify wider health benefits from active travel beyond what’s already quantified in DfT’s Active Mode Appraisal Toolkit -including morbidity benefits, health benefits to children and cost savings to the NHS.
- Improve our understanding of how behavioural change can help meet air quality and noise/soundscape policy ambitions and improve the evaluation and dissemination of effective policy interventions
- What are the specific health impacts of transport related particulate matter such as that caused by tyre and brake wear? Do different types of particulate pose different risks?
- What is the impact of food hypersensitivity (including allergies and intolerance) and how can we reduce it?
- Assess and provide evidence for effective interventions to reduce inactivity (undertaking under 30 minutes of exercise per week for the adult population, 16+), and increase physical activity (defined as +150 minutes per week for the adult population), considering underrepresented groups and demographics, as well as the cost benefit analysis.
- How can we monitor prevalence of COVID-19 and similar viruses through our water systems to act as an early warning system and inform public health decisions?
- The role that all parts of the health system, from community and primary care through to hospital-based and social care, play in delivering better outcomes for people, and how the system can work effectively together to plan for and respond to compound pressures including infections with pandemic potential.
- How can the FSA improve the evidence base concerning Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and food?
- Evidence on whether reductions in excess adiposity improve patient outcomes and prevent the incidence of developing secondary disease or multiple long-term conditions.
- What are the impacts of lack of skills, employability and wellbeing among young people?