Fuse, the Centre for Translational Reseach in Public Health (renewal)

公共卫生研究是关于寻找新的、更有效的方法来改善人口健康和预防疾病，并确保健康在人口中更公平地传播。这对可持续的卫生保健系统至关重要，还能带来经济和社会效益。FUSE进行世界级的研究，以预防疾病，改善所有人的健康和福祉，并缩小健康状况最差的人与其他人之间的差距。FUSE是英格兰东北部的一个研究中心，汇集了五所大学(达勒姆、纽卡斯尔、诺森布里亚、桑德兰和蒂赛德)的教职员工和学生的专业知识，并与NHS、当地政府、志愿者和社区部门的同事密切合作。“翻译”Fuse开展的研究结果，使其能够满足这些部门的需求，是Fuse使命的核心。FUSE进行研究的背景正在发生变化，在现任政府的NHS改革下，公共卫生服务转向地方当局。因此，对于这项亟需的“翻译”研究来说，这是一个特别重要的时刻。FUSE进行研究的方式多种多样，但可以概括为“开发、评估和翻译”。在我们的许多研究中，这些活动是并行进行的，与公共卫生服务机构合作，因此研究结果立即对在一线工作的人有用。我们的研究旨在解决当今人们面临的主要健康问题，包括肥胖、心脏病和癌症，试图开发出鼓励人们吃更健康的饮食、更多锻炼、戒烟和适度饮酒的方法(行为改变研究计划)。人们在一生中都面临着这些问题，而Fuse的研究计划通过研究生命过程中的关键时期来反映这一点。该研究计划从探索如何在怀孕的关键时期到成长中的家庭提供一个健康的早期生活开始。例如，我们正在进行研究，帮助父母认识到他们的孩子何时超重，通过舞蹈在学校提供有趣的运动，以及探索改变学校晚餐指南的影响。这项研究计划(早期生活和青春期)贯穿青少年时期，重点是试图降低酒精、毒品和不良的性健康的风险。在早期生活的同时，还选择了在老年保持和改善健康(健康老龄化研究方案)，因为这些阶段在影响长期健康方面具有重要意义。在这个计划中，我们的目标是找到方法来促进更长、更活跃的健康生活。FUSE的另一个研究线索(复杂系统研究计划)将尝试了解目前医疗系统正在发生的变化以及这些变化将如何影响人们，评估正在使用的战略，试图改善人们的健康和福祉。健康不平等研究方案进行研究，以更好地了解为什么健康最差的人与其他人之间存在差距，并缩小这种差距。我们主要关注生活在更贫困地区的人，那里往往有更高水平的许多疾病，从感染到心脏病和癌症。当然，许多研究结果并不总是立即在现实世界中付诸实践。这就是Fuse的不同之处。FUSE与那些在当地提供公共卫生服务的人携手合作，这样他们就可以更快地获得研究结果，以制定对人们生活产生现实影响的物有所值的政策。除了是FUSE使命和目标的核心，这一挑战还通过翻译研究计划取得了进展。

Public health research is about finding new and more effective ways to improve the population's health and prevent disease, and ensure that health is more fairly spread in the population. This is essential to a sustainable health care system, and also provides economic and social benefits. Fuse carries out world-class research to prevent disease, and improve health and well-being for all and close the gap between those with the worst health and the rest of the population.Fuse is a research centre in the North East of England, bringing together the expertise of staff and students at five universities (Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside) and working closely with colleagues in the NHS, local government, voluntary and community sectors. 'Translating' the findings of the research carried out by Fuse so that it can meet the needs of these sectors is central to Fuse's mission. The context in which Fuse conducts its research is changing, with public health services moving to local authorities under the current Government's NHS reforms. Consequently, this is a particularly important time for this much needed 'translational' research. Fuse conducts its research in various ways, but these can be summarised as "develop, evaluate, and translate." In much of our research, these activities are carried out in parallel, working with public health services, so that research findings are immediately useful to the people working in the front line. Our research aims to tackle the major health problems facing people today, including obesity, heart disease and cancers, by trying to develop ways to encourage people to eat a healthier diet, exercise more, stop smoking, and consume alcohol in moderation (behaviour change research programme). People face these problems right through their lives and Fuse's research programme reflects this by researching key periods in the life-course.This starts by exploring how to provide a healthy start in early life through the critical period of pregnancy, through to growing families. For example we are conducting research on helping parents to recognise when their child is overweight, providing fun exercise in schools through dance, and exploring the effects of changes in the guidelines for school dinners. This research programme (early life and adolescence) goes through to teenage years and focuses on trying to reduce the risks of alcohol, drugs, and poor sexual health. In parallel to early life, maintaining and improving health in older age (healthy ageing research programme) has also been selected because of the importance of these stages in life in influencing longer term health. In this programme, we aim to find ways to promote longer, more active lives in good health.Another of Fuse's research strands (complex systems research programme), will try and understand the changes currently taking place in the health system and how these will impact on people, assessing the strategies being used to try to improve the people's health and well-being. It will also evaluate the policies being used to regulate public and private sectors to promote health.The health inequalities research programme conducts research to understand better why there is a gap between those with the worst health and the rest of the population, and to narrow this gap. We focus primarily on people living in more deprived areas, where there tend to be higher levels of many illnesses, from infections to heart disease and cancer.Of course many research findings are not always immediately adopted into practice in the real world. That is where Fuse is different. Fuse works hand-in-hand with those delivering public health services on the ground, so that they can more quickly access research findings to create value-for-money policies that have a real-life impact on people's lives. As well as being core to Fuse's mission and aims, this challenge is also progressed through the translational research programme.