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