| Contact Details |
|
Professor Laurence Moore |
| Biography |
Professor Laurence Moore is an Honorary Professorial Fellow with the McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing.
His full time position is as Director of the Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics. He is a social scientist and statistician with a particular interest in interventions to improve public health and health behaviour. He has led a number of cluster randomised trials of such interventions, including school-based interventions such as fruit tuck shops, peer-led smoking prevention and the free breakfast initiative in Wales. From January 2009, he will be Director of the new UK Centre of Excellence in Public Health Research, which is a strategic partnership of Cardiff, Bristol and Swansea Universities. The DECIPHer centre will use the framework of the socio-ecological model of health behaviour as a framework to Develop and Evaluate Complex Interventions for Public HEalth impRovement.