NIHR awards £7.8m to drive knowledge mobilisation across Applied Research Collaborations
The NIHR has awarded £7.8m to its Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) to build knowledge mobilisation capacity and capability within the health and social care system. As part of this national initiative, ARC Yorkshire and Humber has received a portion of this funding to support local knowledge mobilisation efforts. This initiative aims to reduce the time […]
Ignore ‘Nanny State’ critics and expand sugar taxes, ban sale of energy drinks to under 16s, and roll out national supervised toothbrushing programmes in schools to tackle the crisis of tooth decay affecting millions of children – Child of the North/Centre for Young Lives report
A new report published today by Child of the North and Anne Longfield’s Centre for Young Lives think tank, “An evidence-based plan for improving children’s oral health with and through educational settings”, makes a series of new proposals to tackle the children’s oral health crisis in England which is seeing millions of children suffering from […]
Hard-hitting report exposes vast inequalities faced by women in the North of England
Women in the North of England live shorter lives, work more hours for less pay, are more likely to be an unpaid carer, and more likely to live in poverty than women in other regions of England, according to new research published today. The damning research – published by Health Equity North – has laid […]
Child health experts, including researchers from ARC Yorkshire & Humber, call on new government to urgently address inequalities in rising infant mortality
More babies are dying before their first birthday, with those in deprived areas, the North of England and Black and Asian ethnic groups the worst affected, according to new analysis released today. National figures on infant deaths in 2022 reveal that, after a brief hiatus, infant mortality is rising once again, exposing stark inequalities across […]
West Yorkshire Scientific Advisory Group (WYSAG) launches “WYSAG Talks”
The West Yorkshire Scientific Advisory Group (WYSAG) has released videos in it’s new “WYSAG Talks” series which provide the chance to find out more from WYSAG experts about the big challenges facing us, what the science tells us and what we can do to together to build a healthier future in West Yorkshire. Whilst we […]
Success for YH ARC PhD student, Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy passed his PhD viva in June and is now working as a research fellow with the Global Health Team in the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York. . He will be specifically working on a programme of work called HFACT. Peter explains that his PhD is titled: Evaluating childhood public health […]
Dacheng Huo presented at the HSR UK Conference in Oxford in July
Dacheng Huo, member of the YH ARC Health Economics team, and Research Fellow in the Centre of Health Economics at the University of York presented at the HSR UK Conference in Oxford in July.
BaBi Network joins the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator Scheme
The ARC Yorkshire & Humber BaBi Network study has recently announced its participation in the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Associate Principal Investigator (API) scheme. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in developing research capacity and experience across the UK BaBi sites.
Congratulations to Senior Research Fellow, Sebastian Hinde who has completed a PhD by publication, using research as part of YH ARC.
Seb Hinde’s PhD project evaluated how decisions are made about spending NHS funding and made recommendations to involve more local decision makers.
Bradford leap-frogs London, Oxford and Cambridge to top UK medical research table for first time
Bradford has consolidated its position at the forefront of world-class, people-powered medical research after recruiting the highest number of volunteers to NIHR portfolio studies in the UK over the past year.
