The King’s Fund will explore how public health and population health leaders can work – and are working – together well in the emerging health and care context.
What we've published so far
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Public health and population health: leading together
The new government has made a commitment to halving gaps in health life expectancy and delivering a 10-year plan for health. To achieve this, ministers must call on and support the exper...
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As ICSs bed in, how are public health and population health leadership collaborating?
How are population health and public health leaders working together? Cheryl Gowar shares insight into the possible tensions in these relationships, as well as the potential for co-opera...
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How influential is public health within local health systems?
The Covid-19 pandemic raised the profile of directors of public health. But has that increased profile been sustained? It’s a complicated picture, says Luca Tiratelli.
Why we're doing this project
With life expectancy and other indicators stalling and health inequalities widening for some groups, it's clear that the health of England’s population is not where we want it to be. The country is also facing economic challenges, and public services are under great pressure. This will both increase the need for public health and population health leadership and put significant pressures on it.
Strong, effective and cohesive public health and population health approaches in local and regional health and care systems are more important than ever. But their impact depends on the influence and cohesion of leadership in integrated care systems (ICSs), and how that leadership connects regionally and in place. Through this project, The King’s Fund will explore how public health and population health leaders can work – and are working – together well in the emerging health and care context.
What we are doing
Our project aims to:
understand the changing roles and influence of directors of public health in local authorities, ICSs and other structures such as combined and mayoral authorities
understand the goals, roles and ability to influence key decisions among the cohort of new and emerging population health leaders (in particular those with titles such as Director of Population Health as part or all of their role) in integrated care systems
develop a positive vision for how these two key leadership communities can:
identify the scope to work together in the light of the above setting out a positive vision and roadmap for the future, in the context of place-based approaches to population health
test this vision and roadmap among senior leaders, including in non-traditional public health roles, and in a number of integrated health and care systems
identify the barriers and risks to achieving this, eg, at national, regional and local level
convene a group of influential leaders from the public health and population health community to help develop and test a set of recommendations to promote the positive vision, and address identified barriers and risks.
In order to achieve these aims, we will be running a series of workshops with professionals and stakeholders in order to gauge the current state of play within public and population health, and to hear people’s ambitions and concerns for the future. We will also be exploring these dynamics in greater detail within a number of case study sites, and running interviews with other key stakeholders.
The project team
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David Buck
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Luca Tiratelli
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Cheryl Gowar
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Clare Sutherland
Project Delivery Officer
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