Professor Graham Moore

Graham is a Professor in the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, and Director of the Health and Care Research Wales funded public health improvement research centre, DECIPHer  He is Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Public Health Research funding committee and has been a Health and Care Research Wales Senior Research Leader since 2022. He also leads the mental health in schools workstream within the Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health, and co-leads the health and wellbeing theme within the ESRC funded UK leadership hub for behavioural research (BR-UK).  

His substantive research interests are in intervention effects on health inequalities, including (un)equal impacts of universal interventions, and interventions targeting under-served subgroups. His research focuses primarily on the health impacts of interventions outside of healthcare settings. He is also interested in methodological innovations in evaluating social interventions. He led development and authorship of highly cited MRC guidance for process evaluation and was co-PI and lead author for MRC-NIHR funded guidance on adapting interventions to new contexts. Both of which are widely cited and used in international public health research and beyond.  

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)