The forthcoming autumn budget represents an opportunity to firmly establish the importance of good population health for the UK economy.

Are the policy initiatives in the White Paper likely to make an impact on the deeply unfair inequalities in health outcomes that blight life in the UK?

We want public policies to improve people’s wellbeing and reduce inequalities in wellbeing. But how do we measure “wellbeing”?

SIPHER’s Workstrand 6 (WS6) is all about understanding how members of the public value different policy outcomes.

Ever since the concept of inclusive growth (or more commonly now, inclusive economy) started to gain traction in the UK, policy makers and analysts have been grappling with challenges of measurement.

By Mary Gogarty Mary Gogarty writes about her experience working as an Embedded Researcher for SIPHER in the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. This blog post (first published on the Social […]

By Ally Brown A few months ago in The Guardian, Aditya Chakraborrty argued that the common feature of food poverty, fuel poverty, period poverty and child poverty is just poverty, […]

By Mohammad Hassannezhad and Daniel Chedgzoy Cascading effects arise when an initiating cause in one part of the system has knock-on effects on other parts, due to interdependencies between them. […]

By Colin Angus The World Health Organization recently published their Global Health Estimates for 2019 with a news story that led on the fact that 7 of the top 10 […]

By Ally Brown Before I discovered being a teenager, I played with a complex systems model every evening for hours on end, for weeks, for months. I wasn’t doing homework, […]