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Articles from IPPO

  1. How Policymakers Responded to Mental Health Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

    How Policymakers Responded to Mental Health Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

    November 15, 2022

    By Professor Sir Geoff Mulgan, Engagement Lead and Co-Investigator of IPPO and Professor Muiris MacCarthaigh, Policy Engagement Lead for Northern Ireland, with contributions from the wider IPPO team.   This paper accompanies a systematic evidence review carried out during 2022 by the EPPI centre for the International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) on the nature and extent of mental health issues arising during the pandemic and the evidence on the effectiveness of mental health interventions delivered at-scale. This work has been supported by an advisory group chaired by the Mental Health Champion for Northern...

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  2. Effective, Scalable Interventions for Tackling Population Mental Health

    Effective, Scalable Interventions for Tackling Population Mental Health

    November 15, 2022

    The pandemic triggered an increase in the incidences of mental health problems across the globe. It also revealed a need to identify what mental health service provision, available at population-level, is effective. A population-level problem naturally requires solutions that can be rolled out at scale. Since January 2022, the EPPI-Centre (UCL), which is part of the the International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) collaboration, has been conducting a systematic review of the most effective, scalable interventions to address anxiety and depression, shown to have surfaced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy briefing that...

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  4. The Future of the City Centre: what are the issues?

    The Future of the City Centre: what are the issues?

    November 9, 2022

    Ahead of our joint event with the Future of City Centres Network, Robert Rogerson (Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde), and Bob Giddings (Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University), set out an agenda for discussion. Robert Rogerson and Bob Giddings Listen to local and national politicians across the world, and the term ‘crisis’ appears frequently in their narratives about the city centre or downtown. By any of the traditional measures deployed to assess the success of the urban core – footfall, rental income, lease uptake, occupancy rates, business turnover...

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