1. Alison Hill, Deputy Chief Knowledge Officer
‘Building the voice of citizens into public health evidence – the view from the PHE’
Alison Hill, Deputy Chief Knowledge Officer

2. Public Health England
Our mission is to protect and improve the nation’s health and to address inequalities, working with national and local government, the NHS, industry, academia, the public and the voluntary and community sector.
Our role is to understand the causes and consequences of poor health; be clear about what works; and encourage the adoption of effective interventions at scale and pace.

3. Two key Public Health England strategies
National Public Involvement Strategy
Knowledge strategy: Harnessing the power of information to improve the public’s health
Putting the Public into Public Health

4. PHE’s Public Involvement Strategy
Building capacity and capability across PHE
Ensuring public involvement is embedded within key activities
Ensuring the voice of seldom-heard and marginalised communities is heard
Public involvement in research
Digital engagement
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5. The PHE People’s Panel Almost 1000 people across England and Wales
Recruited based on two national representative samples
Founded by the Health Protection Agency in 2007
Range of activities:
Online consultation
Workshops, focus groups and discussion forums
Representation on committees
Putting the Public into Public Health

6. PHE’s approaches to participation
Information
Methods include – print, broadcast and social media as well as leaflets, websites and social marketing
Consultation
Methods include – special meetings, discussion groups, questionnaires, online surveys and forums.
Deciding together
Methods include – deliberative events & community development activities
Acting together
Methods include – partnership building working through partnership bodies.
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7. Knowledge strategy: Harnessing the power of information to improve the public’s health
….to meet the knowledge and information requirements of public health practitioners across the public health system. Draft strategy consulted on and now being revised in the light of comments
Putting the Public into Public Health

8. The PHE Knowledge Strategy
Assess priorities for public health research, support and conduct it
To understand,
collaborate
and meet the needs of
local government, local NHS and
National stakeholders
Build and manage linked datasets that are safe and available for use
Bridge the gap in the translation of knowledge into action
Connect people to share experience
Build and develop health intelligence networks Connect people to share experience
Improve the scope of effective health surveillance
Develop a web portal to report on premature mortality and other outcomes
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9. Bringing these strategies together to get knowledge into action
Identify problem /need
Gather knowledge from research, data, experience
Translate knowledge into action
Share with the right people at the right time
Assess impact and outcomes
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10. Knowledge is like water
In the nineteenth century health was transformed by clear, clean water. In the twenty-first century, health will be transformed by clean clear knowledge. Sir Muir Gray
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11. Public expectations and priorities
knowledge from research
knowledge from routine data
knowledge from experience and involvement
PHE response based on evidence from each of these three strands

12. Knowledge from research
Primary research
e.g. Health protection, extreme events, behavioural insights
Evidence summaries and reviews where no NICE guidance
Lifestyle and other surveys
e.g. National diet and nutrition surveys, and health questions in the Active People Survey

13. Knowledge from routine data
Data mapping and signposting
Analysis and analytical reports
Tools (atlases, profiles, cost effectiveness, return on investment models)
Evaluation tools

14. Knowledge from public involvement and experience
Mental Health, Marginal Communities and Wellbeing: The Public Health Challenge
informed the development of PHE’s national programme on mental health
PHE Flooding: Advice for the Public
Focus Groups with members of people’s panel
Identifying case-control comparators in response to an outbreak
Development of People’s Panel Database of those willing to participate in response-based case-control studies

15. Knowledge translation – bringing the three strands together
• Ensure evidence-based
• Co-produce with practitioners and the public
• Identify key interventions and adopt them at scale
• Systematise knowledge based on experience
Develop a framework for knowledge translation

16. Knowledge dissemination
Digital public involvement incorporating social media, online communities, public e-forums and web-based public consultation. Social marketing campaigns such as Stoptober and NHS Health Checks through NHS Choices PHE website providing resources to support knowledge transfer National and local media Mediation

17. Challenges moving forward…….
Increase the public’s voice into our outputs Enhance public insights Develop skills and resources in knowledge translation Create compelling visualisation of our knowledge outputs Involve the public centrally in our research programmes

18. Thank you
My contact details: Dr Alison Hill BSc FRCP(Lon) FFPH Tel: Mob:
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