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A productive Policy Modelling for Health Full Team Meeting in Leeds over the last two days. A valuable chance to reconnect face-to-face with colleagues and review progress at our programme midpoint. Really excited about our future plans! @phiuk.bsky.social
portait photos of new FAcSS Dr Corinna Elsenbroich - left, Prof Alison Heppenstall-centre and Prof Ellen Stewart - right
🎉Congratulations to our three colleagues who have reecently been elected Fellows of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social -FAcSS
🎉 @celsenbroich.bsky.social
🎉 Prof Alison Heppenstall
🎉 @profellenstu.bsky.social
Recognised for outstanding contributions to social science research, policy and practice.
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15:00–16:00 | G7 Spotlight (Boardroom 2)
Dr Andreas Hoehn – Creating multi-level-representative Synthetic Populations with reliable household and kinship structures (ID:9) Andreas from our Causal Estimations Team explores new tools that build robust synthetic populations to power policy analysis.
15:00–16:00 | G7 Spotlight (Boardroom 2)
Dr Norah Soe – Harnessing Complex Systems Modelling to Tackle Health Inequalities (ID:100)
Our Programme Manager, shares reflections and lessons from the first two years of the Consortium — and how co-production strengthens policy modelling impact.
15:00–16:00 | G5 Symposium (Vox 5)
@pmeierprof.bsky.social – Simulating the Future: Using Systems Models to Inform Prevention Policy (ID:154)
Part of AI for Prevention: Opportunities and Challenges — Our Director draws on her work leading both UKPRP SIPHER and PHI-UK Policy Modelling for Health.
As we move into the final afternoon at @phiuk.bsky.social, UKPRP, @nihr.bsky.social, #preventionresearch26 our team has three excellent presentations - AI and how modelling can transform policy decision-making - How we are harnessing systems modelling - New tools for policy analyses. Details 👇
Academic Poster with Policy Modelling for Health logo top left and title • Through Our Eyes – Young People’s Perspectives on Employment and Health in Inverclyde
Poster 2: Through Our Eyes – Young People’s Perspectives on Employment and Health in Inverclyde. @natdewison.bsky.social & @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social & our Community Insights Team look forward to discussing how young peoples lived experiences are shaping more inclusive policy modelling.
Academic poster with Policy Modelling logo top left and title A Mixing Methodology to Bridge the Abstraction Gap between Participatory Research and Quantitative Modelling in Public Health – from Dr Shraddha Ghatkar
Poster 1: A Mixing Methodology to Bridge the Abstraction Gap between Participatory Research and Quantitative Modelling in Public Health – from Dr Shraddha Ghatkar and our Integration Methods team highlights that need to translate lived experience into modelling insight to avoid unintentional gaps.
Day 2 #preventionresearch26 and first up this morning we have Jonny Stokes & Daniel Kopasker from our Causal Estimation team with Best practices for building trust in public health policy modelling (ID:129) 11:00–12:00📍 E5 Symposium | Vox 5
And please don't forget to visit our two posters 👇
And we are pleased our PhD student Ilana McQuillan Booth will also be engagaing aduiences Boardroom 2 from 2pm #preventionresearch26 "What are the impacts of childhood low-income and Adverse Childhood Experiences on health outcomes in adulthood for women in high-income countries? (ID: 94)
our Impact Lead @policynerd.bsky.social Jo Winterbottom, presents: Policy Modelling for Health: Understanding policy levers of economic determinants of health at different levels of governance (ID:91)
🗓 Wed 4 March | 14:00–15:00
📍 B3 Economic Determinants | Vox 3
The health and wellbeing effects of wealth poverty in Great Britain - Causal analyses of the Wealth and Assets Survey
Presented by Sarah Amele part of our Causal Estimation work package
🗓 Wednesday 4 March
📍 Parallel Session B – Vox 3, 14:00 (ID:113)
If you are at #Preventionresearch26 then we encourage you to visit Parallel Session B in Vox 3 and listen to two presentations by members of our @healthmod.bsky.social team looking at health and wellbeing effects of wealth poverty and local, exploring how regional & national policy powers interact
Tickets still available for Wellbeing Economies Film "Purpose" + panel discussion @weallscotland.bsky.social @glasgowcc.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @uofgshw.bsky.social Join us for lively debate on how we can redesign the economy for people and planet www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/purpose-a-...
There is still time to join us to explore modelling, inequality & prevention.
Bookings are open until Sunday 1 March!
📍 Vox, Birmingham
🗓️ 4-5 March
🪧 Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice for Health Equity #PreventionResearch26
Register: registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...
Advert for Prevention Research Conf 4-5 March 2026 Image of Birmingham skyline plus host organisation logos Prevention Research Network, PHI UK and NIHR and QR code to event website
📢 Policy Modelling for Health will be presenting across #PreventionResearch26 in Birmingham next week! With 2 posters, 5 presentations and the Interactive Roundtable
“Reimagining Healthier and More Equitable Futures” hosted by our Director @pmeierprof.bsky.social - we’d love to see you there! 👇
Professor @pmeierprof.bsky.social Director Policy Modelling for Health commented: “We are delighted to have produced this report, which exemplifies the kind of rigorous, policy-relevant modelling that @phiuk.bsky.social Policy Modelling for Health exists to deliver." www.phiuk.org/policy-model...
Compiled by @cempaessex.bsky.social key findings include:
•Modest reductions in overall #Poverty & #ChildPoverty, but increases #PensionerPoverty
•Net fiscal improvement of £1.0–£1.4 billion per year
•Minimal change to overall income inequality, impacts concentrated among specific household groups
Report cover - Policy Modelling for Health logo top left Text reads Policy Impact Assessment: Autumn Budget Statement 2025 UK-Wide Distributional Analysis 2026-2030
How will the Autumn Budget 2025 affect poverty, inequality, and household incomes across the UK?
Using UKMOD #microsimulation - modelling to simulate behaviour and interactions - our new report assesses winners, losers and fiscal impacts from 2026–2030. www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_1246769_smxx.pdf
Thanks to everyone already booked for tomorrow's Lunchtime Webinar with @pmeierprof.bsky.social - there is still time to register for this free online Zoom event - a must for anyone who is, or wants to become involved in, delivering ambitious, multi-partner research programmes. Details👇
@uofgussp.bsky.social has a fab community of participatory researchers. Now advertising for RA w participatory methods experience to join us and work across two of our large grants: @healthmod.bsky.social and @changingrealities.bsky.social
Our @cempaessex.bsky.social colleagues are contributing to this #microsimulation Workshop: Prof Matteo Richiardi @essexuni.bsky.social our Computational Modelling Lead is introducing the event & David Sonnewald part of our Dynamic Modelling Work package will present on care over the life course.
📢 Join the 2nd Winter Microsimulation Workshop: Modelling behaviour in dynamic microsimulation models
📅 27 February 2026 | 09:30 GMT | University of Turin - Campus Luigi Einaudi, Italy Plus Streaming online
Explore a great programme and register to attend www.microsimulation.ac.uk/about/events...
📢 Book Now - Managing Complexity: Leading Large-Scale Research Projects
🗓 Thursday 19 February 2026 | 12:30 pm | 30–40 mins
Our Director @pmeierprof.bsky.social on leading large, interdisciplinary research consortia, the opportunities, challenges, and practical strategies.
🔗 Register bit.ly/4jNI4Gl
section of poster from exhibition at Parklea Policy modelling for health logo top left - title Through our Eyes and image of girl taking a picture on her phone bottom right
📸 Community Insights Exhibition Inverclyde
Launching today, we share young people’s lived experiences of finding work in Inverclyde. Created with Project SEARCH it brings real voices into conversations about policy, opportunity, & health. Open to all Parklea Community Hub, Port Glasgow until 28 Feb
This work reminds us why lived experience matters — it shows dimensions of housing and health that standard evidence too often overlooks,
🎉 Free research support for third sector & community orgs!
Launching the Centre for Health Policy's new Community Research Cafes!
First cafe: Wed 25 Feb, 2-4pm at Townhead Village Hall, 60 St Mungo Ave, G4 0PL.
Drop in for tea, cake & expert advice on your research & evaluation ideas ☕ 🍰
Delighted to see our consortium partners at Public Health Scotland launch their new 10-year strategy, Together We Can. A bold and important step towards improving life expectancy and reducing health inequalities across Scotland. Proud to be working together on this challenge.
A senior strategic role at the heart of a UK-wide research programme modelling how policy decisions shape economic wellbeing, health and equity. Working closely with our Director @pmeierprof.bsky.social and the Executive group. Explore our consortium: www.phiuk.org/policy-model...
