Research units A-Z

Article

• Blake, C. et al. (2026) Participatory systems mapping: a review of population health research practice. Health Research Policy and Systems, 24, 30. (doi: 10.1186/s12961-026-01457-6)

• Mühlichen, M., Höhn,A., Lomax,N., Meier,P., and Grigoriev,P. 2026. Do Welfare Regimes Matter? A Comparative Analysis of Area-Level Inequalities in Life Expectancy in Germany and the United Kingdom, 2003–2021. Geographical Analysis 58, no. 2: e70040. https://doi.org/10.1111/gean.70040

• McDool, E., Mukuria,C., Wickramasekera, N. and Tsuchiya, A. (2026) Evaluating the validity of the EQ-HWB-9 in a large UK general population sample Value in Health In Press online February 28, 2026 10.1016/j.jval.2026.02.006

• Field, B., Smith, K., Wickramasekera, N. and Tsuchiya, A. (2026) Why Object to Inequalities in Health and Well-Being? A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Inequality Aversion With Members of the General Public
  Value in Health,  Published online February 25, 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2026.01.029

• Stewart, E., Garnham, L., Hill OConnor, C., Meier, P., and Smith, K. (2026) Prototyping a tool to layer lived experience narratives onto systems maps. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2026.2640917

•  Lomax, N., Elsenbroich, C., Hoehn, A., Rice, H., Meier, P., Heppenstall, A., and Hughes, C. (2025) An inclusive economy classification of British Local Authority Districts and assessment of its association with life expectancy and lifespan variation Population, Space and Place  Volume 32, Issue 1 January 2026 https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70151

Article

• Brown, A. Reframing health inequality? The rise, rise and fall of three competing policy frames, Journal of Public Health, 2025;, fdaf141, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaf141

• Walsh, D., Hoehn, A., Dundas, R., McCartney, G. and Whyte, B. (2025) Using lifespan variation to better understand long-term trends in health inequalities in Scotland and Europe. European Journal of Public Health, (Accepted for Publication Nov.2025)

• Garnham, L., Smith, K. E., Stewart, E. and Hill OConnor, C. (2025) Housing as a social determinant of health: system perspectives from lived experience, policy and evidence. Journal of Critical Public Health, (doi: 10.55016/ojs/jcph.vi.79583) (Early Online Publication)

• Tsuchiya, A., Wickramasekera, N., University of Sheffield. (2025). SIPHER-HWMIC Dataset: A Large-Scale Population Survey of Health and Wellbeing to Allow Comparisons between Outcome Measures, 2022. [data collection]. UK Data Service. SN: 9458, http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-9458-1

• Wickramasekera N, Ta AT, Field B, Tsuchiya A. Using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) to Compare Social and Personal Preferences for Health and Well-Being Outcomes. Medical Decision Making. 2025;0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X251378427

• Wickramasekera, N. and Tsuchiya, A. (2025) A large scale population survey of health and wellbeing to allow comparisons between outcome measures: the SIPHER-HWMIC dataset. Social Indicators Research. ISSN 0303-8300 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03728-1

• Rice, H.P., Hoehn, A., Meier, P. et al. An inclusive economy dataset for wards in Great Britain using administrative and synthetic data sources. Nature Scientific Data 12, 1230 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05502-x 

• Kakampakou, L., Stokes, J., Hoehn, A. et al.(2025) Simulating hierarchical data to assess the utility of ecological versus multilevel analyses in obtaining individual-level causal effects. BMC Med Res Methodol 25, 79. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-025-02504-6 

Article

• Field, B., Smith, K.E., Hill O'Connor, C. et al. (2 more authors) (2024) Exploring social preferences for health and wellbeing across the digital divide. A qualitative investigation based on tasks taken from an online discrete choice experiment. Value in Health. ISSN 1098-3015

• Gamal, Y. , Elsenbroich, C. , Gilbert, N., Heppenstall, A.  and Zia, K. (2024) A behavioural agent-based model for housing markets: impact of financial shocks in UK. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 27(4), 5. doi: 10.18564/jasss.5518

• Squires, H. et al. (2024) The PHEM-IB toolbox of methods for incorporating the influences on behaviour within public health economic models. BMC Public Health, 24:2794 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20225-1

• Ta, A., Van Landeghem, B. and Tsuchiya, A. (2024) Eliciting public preferences across health and wellbeing dimensions: an equivalent income value set for SIPHER-7. Health Economics. ISSN 1057-9230 https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4890

• Brook, A., Rendall, G., Hearty, W., Meier, P. , Thomson, H. , Macnamara, A., Crossley, R., Campbell, M.  and McCartney, G.  (2024) What is the relationship between changes in the size of economies and mortality derived population health measures in high income countries: a causal systematic review. Social Science and Medicine, Volume 357, Sept 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117190

• Olmez, S., Heppenstall, A., Ge, J., Elsenbroich, C., & Birks, D. (2024). Mitigating housing market shocks: an agent-based reinforcement learning approach with implications for real-time decision support.. Journal of Simulation, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477778.2024.2375446

• Hoehn, A., Lomax, N., Rice, H., et al Estimating quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) for local authorities in Great Britain and its association with indicators of the inclusive economy: a cross-sectional study BMJ Open March 2024 doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076704

• Hoehn, A., Policy Brief Policy with Foresight - Preparing for the future in a scientifically rigourous and actionable way.  Brief No. 43, Jan 2024, See Building Block 3 for SIPHER contribution to FutuRes workshop “Connecting Population and Crisis Foresight to Policy Challenges” Publisher Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science on behalf of the collaborative network “Population Europe” ISSN: 2512-6164

• Stewart, E., SIPHER Greater Manchester Community Panel., SIPHER Scotland Community Panel. et al. Evaluating participant experiences of Community Panels to scrutinise policy modelling for health inequalities: the SIPHER Consortium. Research Involvement and Engagement 10,4 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-023-00521-7

Conference Proceeding - Output

• SIPHER’s synthetic population for individuals in Great Britain 2019 - 2021. Presenting Author: Andreas Hoehn Authors: N Lomax, K Zia, J Cox, E Comrie, G Fergie, A Heppenstall, D Lewis, R Purshouse, J Winterbottom. Session 3: Methods - Society for Social Medicine & Population Health 68th Annual Scientific Meeting, Glasgow UK September 2024

• Whose policy system?: Contrasting perspectives of policy-makers, researchers and people with lived experience of public health issues. Presenting Author: Lisa Garnham Authors: L Garnham, E Stewart, K Smith Session 1: Policy & services - Society for Social Medicine & Population Health 68th Annual Scientific Meeting, Glasgow UK September 2024 - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Aug 2024, 78 (Suppl 1) A87-A88; DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-SSMabstracts.182

• Spatial variation in health outcomes arising from income support policy interventions for the United Kingdom, Presenting Author: Nik Lomax O5.282 C.03: Applied Geography: Applied Approaches for Healthy Public Policy - 35th International Geographical Congress, Dublin, Ireland August 2024 

• Health in All Policies? Analysing UK policy efforts to use complex systems tools to reduce inequalities and tackle policy silos,  Presenting Author: Lisa Garnham Authors: Katherine Smith, Clementine Hill-O'Connor, Emma Comrie, Natalie Dewison. O5.281 C.03: Applied Geography: Applied Approaches for Healthy Public Policy - 35th International Geographical Congress, Dublin, Ireland August 2024 

• The Role of Understanding Process in Exploring the Future for Social Policy, Presenting Author: Corinna Elsenbroich Authors: Jennifer Badham  - Abstract 51 - Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Glasgow UK July 2024 

• Health Inequalities: The Fall, Rise, and Future of a Social Policy Puzzle, Presenting Author: Ally Brown - Abstract 189 -  Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Glasgow UK July 2024 

• The UK’s Housing Policy Gap. Presenting Author: Lisa Garnham Authors: Jasmyne Sheridan, Clementine Hill-O'Connor, Katherine Smith - Abstract 226  Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Glasgow UK July 2024 

• A Structured Decision Making approach to Improve Population Health and Reduce Health Inequalities -Presenting Author: Shraddha Ghatkar. Authors: Emma Comrie, Joao Duro, Ping Li, Corinna Elsenbroich, Visakan Kadirkamanathan, Robin Purshouse - Session: MD-13 - Page 127 the EURO 24 - 33rd European Conference on Operational Research, Copenhagen, Denmark July 2024.  

• Challenges of using microsimulation for simulating the impact of interventions on populations - Presenting Author: Alison Heppenstall. Authors: Alison Heppenstall, Nik Lomax, Corinna Elsenbroich, Rob Clay, Luke Archer - Session: C04D - Uncertainty - 9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association, Vienna January 2024. 

• Projecting the impact of policy on income and wellbeing - Presenting author: Luke Archer. Authors: Luke Archer, Nik Lomax, Robert Clay, Hugh Rice, Alison Heppenstall - Session: C01A - Dynamic / Long term - 9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association, Vienna January 2024. 

• Simulating the effects of income and housing policies on Quality Adjusted Life Expectancy - Presenting author: Nik Lomax. Authors: Nik Lomax, Robert Clay, Luke Archer, Hugh Rice, Alison Heppenstall, Andreas Hoehn - Session: B02A - Population 9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association, Vienna January 2024. 

• Towards Reproducible Open SIPHER’s Synthetic Population - Presenting author: Kashif Zia. Authors: Kashif Zia, Andreas Hoehn, Nik Lomax, Alison Happenstall, Petra Meier Session: C02D - Synthetic Data - - Population 9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association, Vienna January 2024. 

Article

• Wijermans, N., Scholz, G., Chappin, E., Heppenstall, A. , Filatova, T., Polhill, J. G., Semeniuk, C. and Stöppler, F. (2023) Agent decision-making: the elephant in the room: enabling the justification of decision model fit in social-environmental models. Environmental Modelling and Software, 170, 105850.(doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105850)

• Antosz, P. et al. (2023) What do you want theory for? A pragmatic analysis of the roles of “theory” in agent-based modelling.  Environmental Modelling and Software, (doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105802) (Early Online Publication)

• Hassannezhad, M., Gogarty, M., Hill OConnor, C. , Cox, J., Meier, P. S.  and Purshouse, R. C. (2023) A cybernetic participatory approach for policy system of systems mapping: Case study of Inclusive Economies. Futures, 152, 103200. (doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2023.103200)

• Such, E. (2023) Framing the wider determinants of health: Reflections and learning from a knowledge mobilisation exercise with an English local authority Public Health in Practice  (doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2023.100410)

• Such, E. (2023) Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England Evidence & Policy, (doi:10.1332/174426421X16848470383584)

• Höhn, A. et al. (2023) Systems science methods in public health: what can they contribute to our understanding of and response to the cost-of-living crisis? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-220435)

• Brown A. (2023) Economic policy makers need to take health seriously BMJ Editorial 381 :p1164  (doi:10.1136/bmj.p1164)

• Breeze,P. R. et al. (2023) Guidance on the use of complex systems models for economic evaluations of public health interventions. Health Economics, (doi: 10.1002/hec.4681)

• Franklin, R. S. et al. (2023) Making space in geographical analysis. Geographical Analysis, 55(2), pp. 325-341. (doi: 10.1111/gean.12325)

• Meier, P., Katikireddi, SV., Smith, K. (2023) Bold action is needed to strengthen primary prevention British Medical Journal,  (doi: 10.1136/bmj.p595)

• Hill O’Connor, C. , Smith, K., Hughes, C., Meier, P.  and Purshouse, R. (2023) Operationalising inclusive growth: can malleable ideas survive metricised governance? Public Administration (doi: 10.1111/padm.12916)  

• Broadbent, P., Thomson, R. , Kopasker, D. , McCartney, G. , Meier, P. , Richiardi, M., McKee, M. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2023) The public health implications of the cost-of-living crisis: outlining mechanisms and modelling consequences. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 27, 100585. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100585) (PMID:37035237) (PMCID:PMC10068020)

• Elsenbroich, C.  and Polhill, J. G. (2023) Agent-based modelling as a method for prediction for complex social systems. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 26(2), pp. 133-142. (doi: 10.1080/13645579.2023.2152007) 

• Kelly-Irving, M., Ball, W. P., Bambra, C., Delpierre, C., Dundas, R. , Lynch, J., McCartney, G.  and Smith, K. (2022) Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research. Critical Public Health, (doi: 10.1080/09581596.2022.2036701)

• Hill O'Connor, C., Smith, K. and Stewart, E. (2023) Integrating evidence and public engagement in policy work: an empirical examination of three UK policy organisations. Policy and Politics, (doi:10.1332/030557321X16698031794569)

Conference Proceeding - Output

• Ghatkar, S., Duro, J., Comrie, E.,Li, P., Kadirkamanathan, V., and Purshouse, R. (2023) A Multi-Objective Optimization Framework for Effective CrossSectoral Policy Making to Improve Population Health and Reduce Health Inequalities" Abstract to the Operational Research Society Annual Conference (OR65) in Bath in September 2023.  OR65 Abstract  - Pg 142

• Heppenstall, A. , Polhill, J. G., Batty, M., Hare, M., Salt, D. and Milton, R. (2023) Exascale Agent-Based Modelling for Policy Evaluation in Real-Time (ExAMPLER).  at 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023), Leeds, UK, 12-15 September 2023, 38:1-38:5. ISBN 9783959772884 (doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.38)

• Johnson, V., Duro, J.A. , Kadirkamanathan, V and Purshouse, R.C. (2023) A distributed multi-disciplinary design optimization benchmark test suite with constraints and multiple conflicting objectives, GECCO ’23 Companion: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation,  Lisbon, Portugal Jul 2023 (doi.org/10.1145/3583133.3596414)

• Johnson, V., Duro, J.A. , Kadirkamanathan, V and Purshouse, R.C. (2023) A scalable test suite for bi-objective multidisciplinary optimization, Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization Conference (EMO) Leiden, The Netherlands, March 2023, (doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27250-9_23)

Article

• Elsenbroich, C.  and Badham, J. (2022) Negotiating a future that is not like the past. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 26(2), pp. 207-213. (doi: 10.1080/13645579.2022.2137935)

• Ralston R, Smith K, Hill O’Connor C, Brown A. (2022) Levelling up the UK: is the government serious about reducing regional inequalities in health? BMJ doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-070589 

• Wallace, R., Franklin, R., Grant-Muller, S., Heppenstall, A.  and Houlden, V. (2022) Estimating the social and spatial impacts of Covid mitigation strategies in United Kingdom regions: synthetic data and dashboards. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 15(3), pp. 683-702. (doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsac019)

• Brand-Correa, L., Brook, A., Büchs, M., Meier, P. , Naik, Y. and O’Neill, D. W. (2022) Economics for people and planet – moving beyond the neoclassical paradigm. Lancet Planetary Health, (doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00063-8) 

• Such, E., Smith, K., Woods, H. and Meier, P.  (2022) Governance of intersectoral collaborations for population health and to reduce health inequalities in high-income countries: a complexity-informed systematic review. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, (doi: 10.34172/IJHPM.2022.6550)

• Wu, G., Heppenstall, A. , Meier, P. , Purshouse, R. and Lomax, N. (2022) A synthetic population dataset for estimating small area health and socio-economic outcomes in Great Britain. Scientific Data, (doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01124-9)

Book Chapter

• Hill O'Connor, C. , Gavens, L., Chedgzoy, D. and Gogarty, M. (2022) Co-producing policy relevant research In: Vorley, T., Rahman, S. A., Tuckerman, L. and Wallace, P. (eds.) How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research: The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 73-82. ISBN 9781800378957 (doi: 10.4337/9781800378964.00013)

Conference Proceeding - Output 

• Johnson, V., Duro, J.A. , Kadirkamanathan, V and Purshouse, R.C.  Toward scalable benchmark problems for multi-objective multidisciplinary optimization, 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Singapore, Dec 2022, pp. 133-140, (doi:10.1109/SSCI51031.2022.10022207)

Article

• Naik, Y., Brook, A., Perraton, J. and Meier, P.  (2021) Fiscal and monetary policies: the cutting edge of advocacy and research on population health and climate change. Perspectives in Public Health, (doi: 10.1177/17579139211059983)

• Aburto, JM., Kashyap, R., Scholey, J., Angus, C., Ermisch, J., Mills, MC., Beam Dowd, J. (2021) Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, (doi: 10.1136/jech-2020-215505)

• Brook, A., Hearty, W., McCartney, G., Naik, Y., Meier, P., Thompson, H., Donaghy, G. (2021) Systematic review of studies examining the causal relationship between national aggregate economic activity and population health outcomes, including health inequalities. PROSPERO 2021 CRD42021227686.

• Hassannezhad, M., Gogarty, M., Hill O’Connor, C., Cox, J., Meier, PS., Purshouse, R. (2021) A Cybernetic Participatory Approach for Whole-Systems Modelling and Analysis, with Application to Inclusive Economies. Research Report TechRxiv. January 27, 2021 DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.13635059.v1

• McGill, E. et al. (2021) Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: a research methods review. Social Science and Medicine (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113697)

Book

• Bambra, C., Lynch, J., Smith, KE. (2021) The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. 120 p. (doi.org/10.51952/9781447361251)

Article

• Angus C. (2020) Visualising the spread of COVID-19 across England. People, Place and Policy, 14(3): 294-296. (doi: 10.3351/ppp.2020.4894678366)

• Bambra C, Riordan R, Ford J, Matthews F. (2020) The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 74:964-968. (doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214401)

• Barton, C. M. et al. (2020) Call for transparency of COVID-19 models. Science, 368(6490), pp. 482-483. (doi: 10.1126/science.abb8637) 

• Collyer T, Smith K. (2020) An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: “How is this all getting done in silos, and why?” Social Science & Medicine, 264, (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113330.)

Article

• Meier, P. et al. (2019) The SIPHER Consortium: introducing the new UK hub for systems science in public health and health economic research. Wellcome Open Research, (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15534.1)