The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will host the launch of two new Department of Health policy research units on 13 June 2011 in London. The Units are funded by the Policy Research Programme of the Department of Health.
The Policy Research Unit in Commissioning and the Healthcare System (PRUComm) will be officially opened along with the Policy Research Unit in Policy Innovation Research (PIRU).
The guest speaker will be Professor Mark Petticrew, delivering an inaugural lecture entitled: Policy evaluation in an age of evidence-based decision-making: what should it look like?
Speakers
Peter Piot, Director, LSHTM
Sandra Williams, Director, DH, Policy Research Programme
Stephen Peckham, Director, PRUComm
Nicholas Mays, Director, PIRU
Mark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation, LSHTM
Event panel
Professor Ken Judge, Head of the Department for Health, University of Bath
Clive Smee, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Surrey
Stephen Peckham, Reader in Health Policy, LSHTM, Director of PRUComm
Professor Mark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation, LSHTM
Richard Murray, Director, Financial Planning and Allocations, Department of Health
Programme
5.30pm
Welcome – Peter Piot, Director, LSHTM
5.35pm
What the Department of Health aims to achieve with its Policy Research Programme, Policy Research Units and Research Consortia – Sandra Williams, Director, DH, Policy Research Programme (PRP
5.50pm
How PRUComm and PIRU will contribute to policy evaluation and advice – Stephen Peckham (Director, PRUComm) and Nicholas Mays (Director, PIRU)
6.00pm
Policy evaluation in an age of evidence-based decision-making: what should it look like? – Mark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation, LSHTM
6.30pm
Panel discussion with questions and comments from the floor
7.00pm
Close and drinks reception in South Courtyard Atrium