Welcome - CISHE

CISHE Mission Statement

CISHE undertakes methodologically innovative multidisciplinary research with a focus on:

understanding and theorising the determinants of population health and well-being
the development and testing of interventions and policies to achieve sustainable improvements in the health and well-being of the public
public health ethics
rigorous evaluation of effectiveness.

CISHE aims to lead and facilitate research of international excellence, placing emphasis on tackling health inequalities and ensuring that our research has an impact on policy and practice in Wales and beyond.

CISHE is home to the UKCRC funded Public Health Research Centre of Excellence DECIPHer – the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement. It is also home to PHIRN - Public Health Improvement Research Network and WHIASU - Welsh Health Impact Assessment Support Unit.

CISHE is based in the Cardiff School of Social Sciences in close collaboration with Cardiff Law School and the School of Medicine. The establishment of the Institute in 2003 was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.

Focus On:

New CISHE Project

CISHE has been awarded funding for a major new project which will evaluate the Strengthening Families 10-14 UK Programme in Wales (SFP10-14 UK), a substance misuse prevention intervention. The research study - Project SFP Cymru - is being funded by the National Prevention Initiative and includes the cost of delivering the programme in three local areas in Wales. For further details please see the project webpage

CISHE Has Moved!

Due to expansion CISHE has moved to new premises, our new address is:

Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics (CISHE)
Cardiff University
1-3 Museum Place
Cardiff
CF10 3BD

The reception telephone number remains the same - 029 2087 9609, for individual staff contact details please visit the 'People' section of our website.

DECIPHer website now online

The Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) is one of five new UKCRC Public Health Research Centres of Excellence. DECIPHer will bring together leading experts from a range of disciplines to tackle public health issues such as diet and nutrition, physical activity; and alcohol, tobacco and drugs, with a particular focus on developing and evaluating multi-level interventions that will have an impact on the health and well-being of children and young people. The Centre will engage strongly with policy, practice and public user communities to translate the research results into practical outcomes.
The DECIPHer website is now online, for further information visit the DECIPHer website at www.decipher.uk.net

Latest Issue of CISHE NEWS:

Issue 17 Winter 2009

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Past Issues

Events:

Fourth Julian Tudor Hart Annual Lecture - presentation now available

Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics and PHA Cymru held the fourth in the Julian Tudor Hart annual lecture series on 9th December 2009. The aim of this lecture series is to engage the academic community in Wales in topical public health issues with a view to promoting relevant research and scholarship.

The fourth lecture in the series was delivered by Professor David Hunter and was entitled ‘Tackling wicked issues: the case of health inequalities’.

Please click here for a copy of Professor Hunter's presentation