Public and community partnerships (PCP)

We use the term public and community partnerships to describe all our work in supporting local authorities to understand and develop their activities that involve and engage the public, communities and people with lived experience in their public health research.  

We agreed the use of the term public and community partnerships with our public and community contributors to reflect that local authorities have different names to describe their involvement and engagement work in research.  

You will hear local authorities use different names and approaches to achieve their public and community partnerships including: 

• Co-production 

• Co-design

• Community researchers

• Participatory research 

• Peer research.  

At SCPH, we have placed PCP at the heart of our work to ensure we make a difference to public health and reduce inequalities. ​ 

To achieve this, we have set out our PCP ambitions in a Public Involvement and Engagement Strategy 2024 to 2028. This strategy sets out how we will support local authorities and researchers to work in meaningful partnership with people and communities to design, deliver, and disseminate research and to provide evidence to inform the delivery of public health services. 

The strategy also explains how the voice of the public and community contributors is fully embedded in our work. 

For more information about our PCP work please contact our PCP Manager, Kasia Kurowska – kasia.kurowska@newcastle.ac.uk.