Our Current Projects
Project – Mental Health Collaboratory 2024-2029 NIHR
BCHDS team -Dan Lewer, Emma Doggett, John Pickavance
Description – Programme Grant for Applied Research investigating interventions that could improve adolescent mental health.
Project – Children and Families Policy Research Unit 2024-2027 NIHR
BCHDS team -Dan Lewer, Helen Dale
Description – Estimating inequalities in access to mental health services for children and young people.
Project -EQUITY-MS 2024-2027 Horne Family Foundation
BCHDS team – Liz O’Nions, Dan Lewer
Description – Estimating inequalities in access to treatment for multiple sclerosis.
Project – Healthy Urban Places 2024-2028 UKRI
BCHDS team – Tiffany Yang, Faith Moyo, Rachael Cheung, Dan Lewer
Description – Population Health Improvement UK hub examining how population health is affected by features of the urban environment.
Project – Research Support Service 2024-2029 NIHR
BCHDS team – Dan Lewer, Liz O’Nions
Description – Providing advice to researchers designing public health research projects and applying for research funding.
Project – Piloting of ecological momentary assessment tools 2024-2026 NIHR
BCHDS team – John Pickavance
Description – Investigating the feasibility, acceptability, and validity of EMA delivered through a novel smartphone application in the context of a digital intervention trial.
Project – BETTER4U 2023 – 2027 HORIZON
BCHDS team – Gillian Santorelli, Ellena Badrick
Description – Aims to prevent obesity through tailored interventions.
Project – MuM-PrediCT 2021 – 2025 MRC
BCHDS team – Gillian Santorelli
Description – Aims to characterise and understand the determinants and consequences of pre-existing multimorbidity (MM) in pregnant women, and to predict and prevent MM and its adverse consequences in women and their offspring.
Project – MIREDA 2023 – 2026 MRC
BCHDS team – Gillian Santorelli, Amy Hough
Description – Aims to improve maternal and infant health by developing new resources and tools for research that uses routinely collected data.
Project – Caesarean section and risk of asthma and allergic disease. 2018-2025 NIHR
BCHDS team – Gillian Santorelli, Amy Hough
Description – Aims to investigate whether in-utero antibiotic exposure in babies born by caesarean section is associated with risk of developing allergic disease and asthma.
Project – Midwife-led Continuity of Care 2017-2024 National Lottery Community Fund initiative
BCHDS team – Gillian Santorelli
Description – RCT to evaluate the effectiveness of a midwife-led continuity of care model on birth outcomes and maternal mental health in women from vulnerable populations.
Project – BiB Breathes 2020-2025, extended to 2026 NIHR
BCHDS team – Faith Moyo, Tiffany Yang,Gillian Santorelli
Description -Evaluate the health, air quality, and economic impacts of Bradford’s Clean Air Plan, including a Clean Air Zone.
Project – INGENIOUS 2021-2025 UKRI NERC
BCHDS team – Rachael Cheung, Tiffany Yang
Description – Understand the key sources, composition, and concentrations of indoor air pollutants, its variability between homes, and co-produce an intervention to improve indoor air quality.
Project – ATHLETE 2020-2024, extended to 2025 HORIZON 2020
BCHDS team – Tiffany Yang
Description – Study the environmental exposures of 80,000 mother-child pairs across 15 cohorts, develop next-generation tools to quantify its effects on health, implement feasible and acceptable interventions, and translate evidence to policy recommendations and prevention strategies.