Public Health
We address important public health questions and most of our systematic reviews are commissioned to inform practice or policy decisions.
CRD plays a vital role in national public health by providing the independent, high-quality evidence needed to shape government policy and beyond.
CRD is committed to helping address health inequalities and ensuring research reflects real-world experiences. The department manages diverse projects, such as creating toolkits to prevent violence against women and girls, and mapping the use of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare. A core part of this work involves partnering with community groups and involving people with lived experience to ensure that the findings are practical and benefit everyone in society.
Through these partnerships and their focus on the wider determinants of health - the environments where we live and work - CRD provides the essential evidence needed to improve public wellbeing across the country.
London-York PRP Evidence Reviews Facility
We collaborate with University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to run an Evidence Review Facility: London-York Policy Research Programme Evidence Review Facility. This facility conducts systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses to help the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) understand which health and social care interventions actually work.
Read more about London-York PRP Evidence Review Facility
Policy Research Unit (PRU) in Public Health
We are also part of the Policy Research Unit in Public Health which conducts public health research with a social determinants focus. We are a multidisciplinary policy-facing research team spread across 6 universities, with a long track record of observational, interventional and evaluative research addressing current and emergent public health challenges.