DECIPHer

DECIPHer has five programmes of work, which are highly interdependent, and the scope and content of DECIPHer research projects does not be proscribed by a need to fit neatly within any one of them:

1. Multiple risk behaviours in young people and their underlying causes (led by Professor Rona Campbell)
2. Developing innovative and sustainable child and youth centred interventions (led by Professor Laurence Moore)
3. Health promoting schools and other youth settings (led by Dr Simon Murphy)
4. Sustainable health improvement in communities, households and families (led by Professor Gareth Williams/ Professor David Fone)
5. Environmental determinants of health and the evaluation of environmental and policy interventions (led by Professor Ronan Lyons)

In this way, intra and interpersonal, organizational, community and environmental approaches to promoting health will be addressed. Significantly, collaborative partnerships with policy makers and practitioners will mean that innovative and effective interventions developed by the Centre will be able to be implemented locally and nationally and existing planned policies will be able to be evaluated effectively.