Sara undertook a knowledge exchange role at the Centre from August 2013 to March 2016 whilst on secondment from the Scottish Government. 

Sara worked with GCPH colleagues to further enhance the utilisation of the Centre’s research and integrate its evidence messages into policy and practice.   As part of this process Sara undertook a synthesis of all the Centre’s research outputs.  The key evidence messages and policy implications were outlined in a report published for the Centre’s 10 year anniversary in October 2014.  The ten year synthesis outlined how a set of interlinked issues - poverty, early life experience, neighbourhood environments and social contexts – are at the heart of inequality and consequently health inequality in Glasgow. 

Sara subsequently produced two further synthesis reports looking at two of these areas in more depth, bringing together learning from GCPH and GoWell, on social contexts and health (published in February 2016) and on early years, children and young people (to be published later in 2016).

Find out more about the synthesis programme of work.