We are very grateful to The Lancet and the NIHR School for Public Health Research for sponsoring prizes at the conference. Details of how abstracts are selected and judged can be found here.
The Lancet prize winners for oral presentations:
Helen Pineo was awarded the first prize for a presentation on the impact of urban health indicators in urban planning policy and decision making: a qualitative system dynamics study.
Marissa Smith was awarded the second place prize for a presentation on exploring e-cigarette policy recommendations and the role of evidence in international public health guidelines: a citation network analysis.
Wendy Thompson was awarded third place prize for a presentation on antimicrobial stewardship in dentistry: an arts-based approach to intervention development.
NIHR School for Public Health Research prize winners for poster presentations:
Fatemeh Eskandari was awarded the first prize for a poster presentation on twitter conversations about food poverty: an analysis supplemented with Google Trends analysis.
Rachel Pearson was awarded the joint second place prize for a poster presentation on maternal adversity and variation in the rate of children entering local authority care during infancy in England: a longitudinal ecological study.
Francesco Aletta was awarded the joint second place prize for a poster presentation on associations between soundscape experience and self-reported wellbeing in open public urban spaces: a field study