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Research and Impact

Research

We recognise, value, and gather evidence through research to better understand the social determinants of health and people’s lived experiences. This is central to the development of initiatives and influencing policy to address health inequalities.  

We advocate for community based participatory research approaches, this enables people and communities to be integral to the research process,  not only shaping the research but also enhancing their knowledge and understanding of the topic. 

Download our recent research reports

Our Lives, Our Meds, Our Health: Exploring Medication Safety through a Social Lens

Inspiring Impact and Impact Practice in NI

Evaluation and Impact

In CDHN we evaluate the impact of our programmes so that we can:

  • increase the evidence base which on how community development approaches reduce health inequalities.  
  • influence policy making to continue to support community-based initiatives
  • support and encourage our members to value and continue to use community development approaches and get seek funding to deliver community development to tackle health inequalities

You can read our BCPP and Elevate Impact reports here

You can read BCPP impact stories here

You can read and watch Elevate impact stories here 

Supporting our members with evaluation and impact

As part of the Elevate and BCPP programmes, we provide training on understanding evidence and impact, we also offer this as bespoke training as part of our training offering

Sharing our learning from research and impact

We use the learning from our research and impact work to

  • Build awareness of the issues of the lived experiences in communities
  • Helps communities understand the issues in their own communities
  • Inform CDHN staff and members allowing us to keep abreast of current issues
  • Build the learning  into our training programmes and capacity building
  • Sharing the success stories of what works in community based approaches to health
  • Identify areas for collective action