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Hertfordshire Public Health Festival of Evidence

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The third annual Festival of Evidence will run between 19 and 23 May, for colleagues and stakeholders from the Hertfordshire health and care system.

The focus will be on finding and using health and wellbeing evidence and data in Hertfordshire to improve the impact of your services and activities for our residents.

Through this page, we will be promoting free evidence sources, online training guides, case studies, masterclasses, and pop-up information sessions. 

We'll be adding new case studies, presentations, and video tutorials to this website and our Herts Health Evidence YouTube channel.

Contact us for more information.

Festival of Evidence Resources

Find below slides and recordings from events in the Festival of Evidence 2023, as well as other related resources and suggestions for further reading.

Refresh your thinking on how you can find, collect and use health and wellbeing data and evidence to improve services in Hertfordshire.

Where do I start?

Evidencing the need: use this StoryMap to find reliable sources of health and wellbeing evidence to support your work in Hertfordshire

StoryMaps – See our collections of interactive guides to health and wellbeing evidence in Hertfordshire:

Evaluation essentials

Find our Evaluation toolbox, a range of useful resources and our Evaluation Reports here: Evaluation (hertshealthevidence.org)

Contact our Research and Evaluation Team: PH.Evaluation@hertfordshire.gov.uk

Slides and recordings from previous Festivals of Evidence

 

Here are tips on data collection and an effective evaluation process from research and evaluation officers:

 

These YouTube guides from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) may also be helpful:

Evaluation in practice

Hertfordshire Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)

Hertfordshire's Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) looks at the specific health and social care needs of our local population and points out areas of inequality. It helps public bodies decide what type of local services to commission.

The JSNA contains a variety of needs assessments, each looking at a different issue. They are regularly updated to reflect the changing needs of the population.

Hertfordshire Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

Contact our Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Team: JSNA@hertfordshire.gov.uk

 

Slides and recordings from previous Festivals of Evidence

Posters about the JSNA

Hertfordshire data and trends

The Public Health Evidence & Intelligence team has access to datasets covering the health and wellbeing of Hertfordshire residents. The team also use a wide range of data sourced from other departments within Hertfordshire County Council as well as other agencies, such as the NHS and Public Health England.

Find out more About our data (hertshealthevidence.org)

Search for resources by different geographies, document types and topic themes Data tools & reports (hertshealthevidence.org)

Have a data request? Make an enquiry and we’ll get back to you Make an enquiry (hertshealthevidence.org)

Posters

Tutorial videos

Key Sport & Physical Activity Trends in Hertfordshire

(Presented by Herts Sports and Physical Activity Partnership and PressRed)

Latest resources and insight are available from the Herts Sports and Physical Activity Partnership at Evaluation and Insight - Herts Sports Partnership (sportinherts.org.uk).

There are also Physical Activity resources in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment at JSNA documents (hertfordshire.gov.uk). Topics include Barriers and Enablers to Physical Activity in Older Adults, and Physical Activity and Covid.

Public Health Masterclasses

Hertfordshire Public Health Masterclasses are presented by Hertfordshire Public Health Connect, a partnership between the University of Hertfordshire and Hertfordshire County Council Public Health Department.

Hertfordshire Public Health Connect aims to bring together information about excellent public health research, practice and education for all professionals and students involved in Public Health in Hertfordshire and the East of England. 

Herts Public Health Connect – Herts Public Health Connect (hertsphconnect.org)

Recordings and slides are available at this page: Masterclasses – Herts Public Health Connect

Smoke Free Generation – January 2025

The session included what action is being taken in Hertfordshire to tackle vaping in young people and to reduce illegal vapes for sale in Hertfordshire. It also looks at what the evidence from research tells us about the best way to design services and interventions that will reach smokers and support them to quit successfully.

Healthy Ageing – May 2023

Improving the health and lives of older people, including those living with dementia is a now global public health priority.

 

Further information about Healthy Ageing from partner organisations:

Barriers faced by the Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities in Herts & the UK (presented by Hertfordshire Public Health Connect) – May 2023

Overview of the challenges and barriers faced by the Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities in Hertfordshire & the UK.

Ideas and resources for your team meetings

If you would like further resources, a personal presentation or support at one of your team meetings, please email ph.intelligence@hertfordshire.gov.uk

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