Posted on: 13 April 2023
Health Equity Fellows for the class of 2022 have published their project reports carried out as part of their Health Equity Fellowship. Those projects are now being adapted and making a difference across other areas of West Yorkshire and beyond. For example, children’s charity SELFA secured an £85,000 funding boost for children’s mental health support thanks to research carried out by fellow Emma Pears.
Projects covered a range of subjects each helping to build more equitable systems covering everything from maternity, faith, mental health, oral cancer and heart failure to learning disabilities, lung checks, paediatrics, breast cancer, kidney health and cervical cancer. You can read all the published projects on the meet the fellows page on our website.
The Health Equity Fellowship was run as part of the West Yorkshire Health Inequalities Academy. Following the success of the first year we have recruited 52 more fellows to a new and expanded Improving Population Health Programme Fellowship covering health equity, adversity, trauma and resilience, climate change and suicide prevention.
Fellows are taking inspiration from the class of 2022 for their own projects. We are also on the lookout for more mentors and project ideas. If you have a project idea for a fellow, please fill in the project proposal template and return it to caroline.