1. Centre for Public Policy & Health WHO Collaborating Centre on Complex Health Systems Research, Knowledge and Action Presented by David Hunter Professor of Health Policy and Management 23 rd July 2015

2. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health WHO Europe Health 2020

3. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health Key Principles Underpinning Health 2020  Renewed emphasis on public health  Health is wealth  Health inequalities must be redressed  Health systems are more than just health care  Whole of society and whole of government approaches needed  Systems thinking approach adopted to analyse problems and devise solutions  From analysis to supporting delivery

4. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health Health 2020: Key Studies Health 2020 Governance for health in the 21 st century (Ilona Kickbusch) Report on social determinants of health and the health divide in the WHO European Region (Michael Marmot) The economic case for public health action (OECD)

5. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health Health 2020: Priority areas for policy action  Investing in health through a life-course approach and empowering people  Tackling Europe’s major health challenges of noncommunicable and communicable diseases  Strengthening people-centred health systems, public health capacity and emergency preparedness, surveillance and response  Creating resilient communities and supportive environments

6. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health European Action Plan for Strengthening Public Health Capacities and Services  Avenues for Action – 10  Essential Public Health Operations (EPHOs) – 10

7. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health Avenues for Action  Surveillance of population and wellbeing  Monitoring and response to health hazards and emergencies  Health protection including environmental and occupational health, food safety and others  Health promotion, including action to address social determinants and health inequity  Disease prevention including early detection of illness  Assuring governance for health and wellbeing  Assuring a sufficient and competent public health workforce  Assuring sustainable organisational structures and financing  Advocacy, communication and social mobilization for health  Advancing public health research to inform policy and practice

8. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health WHO Collaborating Centre Terms of Reference  EPHO 6 – governance  EPHO 10 – research to inform policy and practice  EPHO 7 – public health workforce

9. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health Pathways to Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice  Linear model  Interactive model

10. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health Linear Model  Evidence/knowledge is a product  Uni-directional flow from producers to research users  Knowledge is generalisable across contexts

11. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health Policy-Makers’ Sources of Evidence  Experts’ evidence (including consultants and think tanks)  Evidence from professional associations  Opinion-based evidence (including lobbyists and pressure groups)  Ideological evidence (including party think tanks, manifestoes)  Media evidence  Internet evidence  Lay evidence (including constituents’ and citizens’ experiences)  ‘Street’ evidence (including urban myths, conventional wisdom)  Research evidence

12. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health Interactive Model  Embracing knowledge from multiple sources: research, theory, practice  Promoting close interaction between researchers and end-users in a co-production/co-creation approach  Context is important  Effective uptake is not only a function of the science but also the degree to which the purveyor of knowledge is viewed as a credible witness  Relationships are key to use and application of knowledge  Dissemination of results through traditional academic channels is not enough – the media utilised must fit the audience

13. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health Selected Activities  Health Summit: Governance for Health in a Changing World, Durham, November 2014  WHO EVIPNet – meetings in Lithuania, Slovenia to discuss knowledge translation and evidence-informed policy and practice  Health in All Policies (HiAP) accredited training centre – WHO HiAP Trainers Meeting, Geneva, March 2014  WHO/PAHO – designed and delivered two day training programme in Suriname, Caribbean, May 2014  Central Asian Republics training course on public health leadership, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June 2015  Autumn School on Health Information and Evidence for Policy- making, Warsaw (2014), Moscow (2015)  Interim review of the EAP for Regional Committee 66, 2016

14. ∂ Centre for Public Policy & Health For more information about our activities visit our website www.dur.ac.uk/public.health/whocc And follow us on Twitter CPPHdurham Thank you!