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Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer)

DECIPHer brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to tackle public health issues such as mental health and wellbeing, positive social relationships, diet and nutrition, physical activity and tobacco, alcohol and drugs, with a particular focus on developing and evaluating multi-level system approaches that will have an impact on the health and well-being of children and young people.


People and community links:

Professor Simon Murphy - Director DECIPHer

Professor Graham Moore - Senior Research Leader

Dr Hayley Reed - Research Associate at DECIPHer

Health and Care Research Wales Podcast - Young people’s vital role in shaping research with Sophie Jones


In the news:

Social care practitioners gather at Venue Cymru to discuss support for children and families (May 2023)

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

Research into young people’s mental health hopes to stop children ‘falling through the gap' (March 2023)

How the research community in Wales is changing lives in 2023 (February 2023)

Research in Wales making a difference to the mental health of Welsh children and young people (November 2022)

Data making a difference: the world-leading data bank behind life-changing research (May 2022)

The 25-year-old championing young people’s voices in research (May 2022)

2021 – A year filled with life-changing research in Wales (March 2022)

Life-changing research improving the lives of Welsh children and young people (December 2021)

Supporting equality, diversity and inclusion in research at Health and Care Research Wales Conference (September 2021)

Aron’s story: how I transform health research in Wales as a student (September 2021)

Praveena’s story: how I transform health research in Wales as a student (September 2021)

“There’s no point in undertaking research if it doesn’t benefit the public” (August 2021)

£44 million investment in health and social care research in Wales (October 2020)

Health and Care Research Wales Conference 2020 (October 2020)