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Evidence Informed Leadership 15 November 2017 Richard Gleave, Deputy Chief Executive 2 Public Health England Public Health England PHE exists to protect and improve the nations health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. We do

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Evidence Informed Leadership 15 November 2017

Richard Gleave, Deputy Chief Executive

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Public Health England

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PHE exists to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. We do this through world-class science, advocacy, partnerships, knowledge and intelligence, and the delivery of specialist public health services.

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What we are not

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A University A Whitehall Department A Regulator A Commissioner A Provider

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An “unholy trinity”

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Academics Ministers Civil Servants

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First contrasting perspective

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Academics Ministers Civil Servants

“I was shocked at the level of interference of civil servants at certain points in the process of the

research. Specifically they intervened at the

sampling stage.” “There was huge pressure to spin findings to fit their agenda”

Academics in LSE study published 2014

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Academics Ministers Civil Servants

“ We got some really high quality papers but it was always felt that they were answering yesterday’s question tomorrow”

Senior civil servant from 2012 workshop

Second contrasting perspective

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Academics Ministers Civil Servants

“Do we think it will work? Sure I think it will work. And if you ask me for evidence, my evidence is the whole of history of the world. It’s not a question of getting some academic in some tower to use some absurd statistical regression to prove some point.”

Oliver Letwin MP 2010

Third contrasting perspective

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(1) Science

Government Industry

Academic Government Industry

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(1) Science

Government Industry

Academic Government Industry

Government Office for Science

“We ensure that government policies and decisions are informed by the best scientific evidence and strategic long-term thinking.”

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(2) More than evidence

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Sources Of Knowledge Expertise & Experience Realpolitik

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Research &

Evaluation

Surveillance
Data & Information
Networks &

Experience

Generating Knowledge

Analysis
Modelling
Evidence synthesis
Data visualisation and

sharing

Developing Knowledge products

Assessed needs
What works
Spread and

dissemination

Local support

Delivering outcomes: improving health and reducing inequalities Translation implementation

PHE’s Knowledge Strategy

2(a) Knowledge

Public Health England

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A “Knowledge Product”

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“Spatial Planning for Health” (2017)

PHE commissioned UWE to produce a tool to communicate the associations between health and spatial planning and the strength of the evidence

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2(b) Expertise and Experience

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3(c) Sugar – “rational” process

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Academic Papers Surveillance data

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And then there’s “realpolitik”

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Academic Papers Surveillance data

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(3) Impact

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PERSUASION ETHOS LOGOS PATHOS KAIROS

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Aristotle gone wrong

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PERSUASION ETHOS LOGOS PATHOS KAIROS

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