Healthy Bodies and Minds

The Healthy Bodies and Minds topic aims to co-produce scalable community and system interventions to tackle the child and family obesity crisis.  It seeks to support the optimum physical health of children and families including prevention of obesity.

Healthy Bodies and Minds Projects

JU:MP Join Us Move Play

JUMP is a physical activity programme which works with families, communities, schools, organisations, makes improvements to the environment, and embed physical activity into local policy with the aim of improving...

Exploring how citizen science can be used to improve health

Physical activity levels of many of the children in Bradford do not meet national guidelines which can have a negative effect on health. JU:MP (Join Us: Move, Play) is a...

Continuation: Obesity Trailblazer – Co-production with Islamic Religious Settings

Born in Bradford is working in partnership with Department of Health and Wellbeing, Bradford Council to promote healthy behaviours through Islamic faith settings such as mosques and madrasas in Bradford....

Meet the Healthy Bodies and Minds Team

Our latest Healthy Bodies and Minds publications

The association between adverse childhood experiences and mental health, behaviour, and educational performance in adolescence: A systematic scoping review

Promoting Positive Adolescent Mental Health (PPAMH!) for School Climate: protocol for a feasibility randomised control trial in secondary schools

Integrating Multi-Omics with environmental data for precision health: A novel analytic framework and case study on prenatal mercury induced childhood fatty liver disease