Patient and Public Involvement

& Engagement1. Embed PPI and PPE thematically across the whole

HPRU.

2. To build the PPI/E capacity and expertise.

3. To provide support to patient/public representatives to

engage with scientists on public-directed research.

4. To present work directly to the public.

5. To assess the effectiveness of our communication

strategies.

6. To establish PPI networks.

7. To evolve the evidence base for the effectiveness of

PPI/E in directing public understanding of

environmental health issues.

http://hieh.hpru.nihr.ac.uk/our-research/ppippe

• Diesel fumes poison babies in the womb Sunday Times, 27 March

2016 (Kelly, FJ)

•Air pollution: How strong is the link to cancer? Independent, 25

February 2016 (Phillips, D)

• Drivers 'exposed to highest levels of pollution' BBC News, 15

February 2016 (Barratt, B, Mudway, I)

• Pollution stunts children's lungs. Sunday Times, 25 October 2015

(Mudway, IS)

• The health implications of the diesel ‘scandal’. Guardian, The

Telegraph, The Financial Times, BBC, Channel 4, BBC Radio 5 Live,

Guardian and BBC. (Kelly FJ, Walton H, Mudway IS, Barratt B,

Fuller G)

• Air pollution raises risk of death 'for decades after exposure‘,

Guardian, 9th Feb (Hansell A)

Objective 1: PPI Strategic Oversight Group (SOG)

Mireille Toledano (Lead)

Ian Mudway (Deputy)

Theme I: Tony Fletcher (PHE) and Anna Hansell (Imperial)

Theme II: Tim Gant (PHE) and David Phillips (KCL)

Theme III: Mireille Toledano (Imperial) and Antony Young (PHE)

Theme IV: Ian Mudway (KCL) and Rachel Smith (PHE)

Optimizing assessment of health impacts of air pollution

Modes and Mechanisms of Toxicity

Health Impact of low dose non-ionising and ionising radiation

Health effects of noise and air pollution including nanoparticles

Involv

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Paul Braithwaite - clean air activist, ex MP of Camden

Monica Robb - Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise

Gavin Thomson - Healthy Air Campaigner, ClientEarth

Arlean Rhode - Conservation of Clean Air and Water in Europe (CONCAWE)

Jacob Hayler - Environmental Services Association

TBA - Representative from the Mobile Operators Council

Katherine Murphy - Patients Association

Victoria Borwick – MP for Kensington (previous Deputy Major of London)

Emily Jesper - Assistant Director of Sense about Science

Community Advisory Board

• Anna Hansell - Noise and Health

• Ian Mudway - Public engagement includes politicians too: lessons from the

Environmental Audit Committee

• Anna Hansell - Update on progress of Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators

study in England, Wales and Scotland

• Rebecca Ghosh - Analysis of hospital adminssions due to carbon

monoxide poisoning in England, between 2001 and 2010

Presentations by HPRU members

PPI: NIHR funded Breathe London Initiative

Example Projects

• The Main Road or the Park?

• The Close the Door study

• The Dog Kennel Hill Primary School study

• The Cycle to Work

• South-East London Residents Study

• MPs measure their own exposure levels

• Modes of Transport

http://www.breathelondon.org/

Launched 11th March 2015

Euston to King’s Cross Wellbeing WalkThe study was undertaken by the Cross River Partnership, with assistance

from King’s College London.

LAQN annual conference: Air Pollution trends and intervention analysis, engagement with businesses and

communities. 2nd July

SCAMP Study Interactive Website & Education Resources

Dissemination

http://hieh.hpru.nihr.ac.uk/

Dissemination

• Educational videos

• Q&A sections

• Access to data and data

visualisation tools

• Wed presence developed with

feedback from focus groups

BBC1- Panorama "The VW Emissions Scandal"

BBC1 - Food; Truth or Scare

David Phillips interviewed for the BBC 1 programme

Food; Truth or Scare, looking at the cancer risk from

red and processed meat.

Frank Kelly

Heather Walton

Gary Fuller

Ben Barratt

Science festivals & outreach

Environmental health Question Time – Franklin-Wilkin’s Building

20th June

The Life Bank – St Thomas’ Hospital

24th June