The NIHR has reaffirmed its commitment to public health research by awarding a third round of funding to its NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR), which includes our collaboration between the universities of Liverpool and Lancaster. The next round of the...
The NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) has launched its summer internship programme for 2021, and we are very happy to announce that three of these internships are being hosted by LiLaC. The 2021 scheme offered 17 undergraduate students from a wider range...
Vaccine hesitancy – one of the World Health Organisation’s top 10 global health challenges even prior to the Covid-19 pandemic – can be a consequence of views and attitudes that are formed and exchanged through discourse, for example by reading the news, listening to...
Mario Martinez-Jimenez, Health Economics, Lancaster University (HEAL) has been selected to present findings from his doctoral research at the Public Health Research and Science Conference on 26 May 2021. His research examines the effects of retirement on chronic...
The Small Area Vulnerability Index (SAVI) is an empirically informed measure of COVID-19 vulnerability for the 6,789 Middle Super Output Area (MSOA) in England. The SAVI index investigates the association between four predictors (proportion of the population from...
I am a PhD student based in the Division for Health Research at Lancaster University. My fellowship is funded by Lancaster University to support LiLaC’s membership of the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR). Through SPHR, I had the opportunity apply for an...
