The ultimate aim of the DECIPHer Centre is to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people through public health improvement research.
Our overall mission is that:
DECIPHer will work in partnership to improve capacity to undertake methodologically innovative multidisciplinary research with a focus on the development and evaluation of complex interventions and policies with the goal of achieving sustainable improvements in the health and well being of children and young people.
The key objectives of DECIPHer are:
- To play a lead role in increasing the quantity, quality, value, relevance and impact of multi-disciplinary research to improve public health in the UK and internationally
- To create sustainable multidisciplinary research capacity with substantial added value from the strategic partnership
- To develop a training and career development programme and an excellent environment for multidisciplinary public health improvement research career development
- To develop new collaborations with organisations concerned with the health of the public in Wales and SW England through nurturing and expanding existing partnerships and creating new opportunities for exchange, engagement and personal development
- To develop an effective and innovative public involvement strategy that is sensitive to equality and diversity issues and the particular needs of children and young people
- To develop rich interdisciplinary understandings of the determinants of health and health behaviour, particularly among young people, that will lead to the identification of potentially modifiable causal pathways and the development of interventions
- To develop innovative interventions to tackle the key health problems of the public, and evaluate them pragmatically and rigorously in diverse populations and settings
- To provide a focal point for collaboration between academia, policy and practice in public health that will maximise the relevance, innovation, translation and impact of public health improvement research nationally and internationally.