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Examples of UCL research influencing policy

UCL research and expertise influences public policy in a variety of ways, from providing advice to Government or policy organisations, undertaking commissioned research, or arriving at new insights that can inform policy-making. 

Just a few examples of the ways in which UCL research has influences public policy are given below:

• Improving governance in Nigeria
• Working with the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
• Providing insights into coalition government
• Report reveals England's health inequalities
• Ground-breaking research finds juries fair and effective
• Influencing the Choosing Health White Paper and the Children's Plan
• Ground-breaking weather predictions
• WHO responds to findings of UCL-led commission with landmark resolution
• Main-streaming disability within the UN Millennium development goals
• UCL briefings for Commonwealth Health Ministers published
• Foresight report launched: Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment
• Revolutionary Regulation Reforms
• Foresight report: Land Use Futures
• WHO publication: Developing sexual health programmes: A framework for action