Webinar Recordings and IHE Publications

Manchester shows that real change in the social determinants of health is possibleIn a new BMJ article, Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Jessica Allen explore what Greater Manchester's experience can teach us about improving health equity across the UK.With devolution high on the national agenda, the article argues that Greater Manchester has demonstrated how a place-based approach to the social d

Delivering Health Equity Through English DevolutionAs England's devolution agenda continues to evolve, a new report from UCL and the Local Government Association explores how devolved authorities can play a pivotal role in creating healthier, fairer communities.Drawing on insights from local government, academia, the NHS and the voluntary sector, the report highlights how health equity can be embe

Health Equity Network BONUS Webinar: Putting communities at the heart of researchThis bonus webinar explored how research partnerships can support local authorities to become more research-active and better equipped to address the wider determinants of health. The session focused on the NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) programme and considered how academic expertise, external

Health Equity Network Webinar Recording: May - Good Practice Across the UKThis month’s Health Equity Network webinar brought together practitioners and researchers to share practical examples of how communities are being meaningfully involved in shaping health services, research, and systems change. The session focused on participatory and co-designed approaches that aim to reduce health inequalit

In April 2024, Medway commissioned the IHE for support in becoming a Marmot Place, establishing the Medway Marmot Place Partnership. A headline ambition of this programme is to halve the gap in healthy life expectancy over the next decade. This new report - Medway Marmot Place Partnership: Together for a fairer, healthier future – recognises the challenge ahead through a presentation of local data

Health Equity Network Monthly Webinar: April - Ghost Towns: High Streets and Health InequalitiesThis month's webinar featured colleagues from Health Equity North — Eman Zied and Hannah Davies — presenting findings from their Ghost Towns report and the associated paper published in Social Science & Medicine. The session offered a compelling look at how the physical fabric of our high streets is bot

Health Equity Network Monthly Webinar: March - Equity in health needs change in the systemThis month's webinar brought together colleagues from The Curiosity Society — Lara Norris and Chris Wood — to explore how systems thinking can deepen our understanding of health inequalities and open up new possibilities for change.Chris and Lara began by grounding the session in a key premise: health inequal

Health Equity Network Monthly Webinar: February - Developing services and organisations for health equityIn this month’s Health Equity Network webinar, held with the British Red Cross, we explored how the organisation is embedding health equity across its UK services.Donna Clarke, Acting Director of Insight and Improvement, and Ruth Brown, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Data Development Officer

Health Equity Network Monthly Webinar: January - 3 Years On!Thank you to everyone who joined our recent webinar reflecting on three years of the Health Equity Network. Alongside the discussion, we gathered feedback through Mentimeter and the chat. A few clear themes came through that we wanted to share here.What people value mostLearning and evidence that helps make sense of health inequalitiesHea

The Health Survey for England (HSE) was released yesterday, providing updated national estimates on health conditions, risk factors and health-related behaviours. The survey remains a key source of information that is not available elsewhere on a regular basis.A few headline findings from the latest release:Smoking and vaping11% of adults currently smoke cigarettes10% of adults currently use e-cig

Head to the IHE's website to read all about the CHEC!What is the CHEC? The Children and Young People’s Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC) was a three-year partnership between Barnardo’s, the UCL Institute of Health Equity and three Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) across England: Birmingham & Solihull, Cheshire & Merseyside, and South Yorkshire, which was established to show how the healthcare syste

Clarion Housing Group’s new report, A New Social Contract for Housing, explores the “five new giants” shaping the future of housing: connection, resilience, sufficiency, trust and health. It offers a thought-provoking assessment of how housing systems must evolve to address health inequalities.The report features contributions from colleagues at the UCL Institute of Health Equity, including analys

Health Equity Network Monthly Webinar: October - Collaboration is Key: The application of an NIHR Local Authority research model for reducing health inequalities by investing in partnership and public involvementIn this webinar, we were delighted to welcome the Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Leicestershire team, who shared how building research infrastructure within local author

Trussell have recently published major new research entitled ‘The Cost of Hunger and Hardship’. This new report explores the costs associated with hunger and hardship, a measure of severe hardship. Through detailed economic analysis and conversations with people with experience of hardship, they unpick and value the economic, fiscal and public service costs associated with hunger and hardship. The

UKRI Projects spanning the UK to tackle food inequality unveiledProjects spanning the UK to tackle food inequality unveiledSix projects across the UK have been announced to address concerns around accessibility and affordability of nutritious meals.New projects to be funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) include:targeting mobile greengrocer, the Queen of Greens, at social housing in Liverpoo

This report takes a life course approach to examining inequalities in the drivers of health – known as the social determinants of health – in Hong Kong. The second report from the UCL and CUHK Institutes of Health Equity, it builds on the first, which examined inequalities in health and the social determinants of health and assessed the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on health and on the social