Professor Graham Moore

Professor Graham Moore is a professor in the School of Social Sciences, with roles across a range of research investments and infrastructures, including the Centre for Development Evaluation Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) funded by Health and Care Research Wales, the Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health and a UKPRP funded consortium focused on commercial determinants of health and health inequalities (Shaping Public hEalth poliCies To Reduce ineqUalities and harM; SPECTRUM). 

Graham's substantive research interests are in health inequalities, primarily focused on childhood and adolescence. This includes a focus on equity impacts of universal interventions, and on interventions which aim to reduce inequality by targeting population subgroups (eg children from poorer backgrounds, children exposed to domestic violence, children experiencing local authority care, or neurodiverse children and young people). Alongside a range of work focused on child and adolescent mental health, as a major contributor to the inter-generational reproduction of inequality, he also has a strong track record in research on young people's tobacco use and tobacco policy. 

Methodologically, Graham has an international reputation in innovation in evaluating social interventions. He led the development and authorship of highly cited Medical Research Council guidance for process evaluation, and was co-Principal Investigator and lead author for MRC-NIHR funded guidance on adapting interventions to new contexts. Both are published as research methods and reporting articles in The BMJ. This work connects to his substantive interests in health inequalities through its emphasis on moving beyond whether interventions 'work', toward understanding the contextually situated nature of intervention effects, and consequences of intervention-context interactions for the widening or narrowing of inequality through social intervention. As programme lead for DECIPHer's methods programme from 2013-19, Graham led a series of established methodology short courses, delivered in 5 continents to date. 

Graham is a member and deputy chair of the NIHR Public Health Research Funding Committee, and a member of the CRUK Prevention and Population Research Committee, having chaired the CRUK Prevention Expert Review Panel from 2018-20. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

In the news:

Faculty webinar -Overview of the MRC guidance for complex interventions and process evaluations with Professor Graham Moore (May 2023)

Faculty Learning and Development Day (April 2023)

Senior researchers in Wales contribute to landmark initiative (April 2022)

Health and Care Research Wales invests in leaders across Wales to shape the research of the future (April 2022)