Liverpool HDRC

Background, aims and objectives: Liverpool has some of the worst health outcomes in the country. A girl born in Kensington, Liverpool can expect to live 13 fewer years in good health than one born in Kensington, London. To reduce this health divide we need to enhance evidenced-based decision-making and the co-production of research in local government to maximise the benefits of action on the social determinants of health for those that need it most Our vision is to embed the LHDRC as part of a collaborative learning city system, co-producing knowledge for whole system change. We will achieve this by: - Co-designing, co-delivering, and co-disseminating health determinants research with our communities. - Embedding an approach to decisions which affect health or its wider determinants that is informed by the best available evidence. - Strengthening processes and collaborations across the council, universities, NHS and voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector. - Developing skills and capacity to support knowledge creation and evidence-based decision-making. - Extending our Local Authority (LA) focused research infrastructure, including the Community Evidence Network, Civic Data Cooperative, and scenario modelling tools. - Developing a local, national and international learning network for dissemination and knowledge exchange. Collaborations/Partnerships: The HDRC will foster strong partnerships with a diverse range of organizations, including governmental bodies, the NHS, research funders, other Local Authorities (LAs), voluntary sectors, universities, and private industry. Strengthening these partnerships across the region is a priority, and we aim to establish a local government research network encompassing Liverpool City Region and Cheshire and Merseyside area, building upon and supporting the C&M research hub. Timelines and milestones for delivery: We have set milestones over 5 years that focus on evidence synthesis/decision support, civic data Integration, knowledge mobilisation, community and public Involvement, training / capacity building which will allow us to transform research culture within LCC, build collaborations and increase research outputs. Anticipated impact and dissemination: The impact of the LHDRC will be actions on the determinants of health that are co-designed with local communities and address population needs. Our dissemination strategy will focus on internally changing practice across LCC’s departments and civic partnership and externally influencing evidenced based local government practice. Outputs from LHDRC will include tools and methods for embedding research and evidenced based decision making in local government, outputs providing new evidence of what local government actions work and products tailored to the needs of specific audiences (the public, local authorities, the voluntary sector, and industry).