Complex Interventions - Evaluating them and Synthesising Evidence on their Impacts

This was the second in a series of workshops for the 'Creativity from an Interdisciplinary Perspective' project, which is funded through the Bridging the Gaps development fund, featuring a presentation by Professor Mark Petticrew from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

This series of workshops aims to provide a range of introductions to this research programme, the purpose of which is to explore the relations between creativity as it is understood in the arts and humanities, creativity as a mental process, and creativity as a phenomenon occurring within processes of information generation in mathematical and biological systems.

Mark's presentation was entitled: “Complex interventions – evaluating them and synthesising evidence on their impacts” and addressed the challenge that creativity within social systems poses to researchers and policy makers who seek to develop an evidence base for implementing and evaluating interventions that aim to effect change within social systems.

Mark is Professor of Public Health Evaluation in the Department of Social & Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has written extensively on evidence-based policymaking, the evaluation of the health effects of social policies, and evidence synthesis. He is an editor of the Cochrane Public Health Review Group, as well as being closely involved in the Cochrane/Campbell Health Equity Field. 

Mark Petticrew's Presentation can be downloaded here.

 For more information about this project, please contact the project lead, Robin Durie