💭 Just imagine if Greater Manchester had the best health in the world...
'Just Imagine If', in partnership with Manchester Museum and Healthier Futures, are inviting you join a conversation on Monday 9 February to discuss how to make this a reality.
Excited to be returning
Room of people at an innovation lab. The screen at the front says project pitches.
Great energy in the room at the @healthierfutures.bsky.social Innovation Lab yesterday! Wonderful to see such brilliant folks across practice and academia coming together to tackle health inequalities in the UK! @uomseed.bsky.social @cperguom.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social
A pleasure to speak about recent work on Global Urban Perspectives on Social Work for Innovative Access to Homeless Care at a great event on the Impact of the Specialist Homelessness Social Work Role & Next Steps for Policy & Practice organised by Manchester Council and KCL
You can register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
Clare will be discussing the policy and politics of reducing #healthinequalities, drawing on her book, #GettingBetter
Join us on 15 Dec in Manchester, for our annual lecture, this year to be delivered by @profbambra.bsky.social , Professor of Public Health at @newcastleuni.bsky.social , and a Co-Director of @healthequitynorth.bsky.social.
How can faith spaces better support women experiencing domestic abuse?
Join Brave Spaces an interactive exhibition and craft event led by Dr Omolade Allen @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
📍SeeSaw Exhibition Space
🖼️Exhibition: 1–5 Nov, 10–4
🎨Craft Workshops: 3 Nov & 4 Nov
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brave-spac...
Out Now!
Our @ukri.org event launched a series of exhibits.
Explore how play, activity & green spaces boost wellbeing and mental health doi.org/10.48420/c.8...
@uomhums.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk
#ESRCFestival #McrESRCFest
NEW EVENT: Creative Health: Supporting older adults to live well in Greater Manchester
Join us for an afternoon exploring creative health + Brain Health to supporting older adults to live well in Greater Manchester.
📍Martin Harris Centre
📅 19 Nov
🕜 2-5pm
🎟️ https://ow.ly/x0Xl50XgVqL
Such an honour to be nominated and recognised for our work in Ardwick to try and help residents to avoid pollution by creating a green walking route that avoids some of the polluted hot spots there
We are at @thekingsfund.bsky.social #KFPrevention meeting today. Next up: Can Devolution be good for your health? The evidence suggests yes... @warrenheppolette.bsky.social will convince you :)
You can also see a @manchester.ac.uk evaluation on this here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/d...
Image of the UoM campus, showing an autumn scene in front of the Whitworth Building
A new blood test can detect ovarian cancer in symptomatic women with high accuracy.
Study from Manchester and Colorado, with UoM findings led by Professor Emma Crosbie @fbmh-uom.bsky.social.
Paper: @aacrjournals.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1158/2767...
As part of the Greater Manchester Research Engagement Network, the team partnered with @AwakeningMinds_, a specialist Punjabi mental health service, and @MadeByMortals, who bring lived experience to life through immersive audio, film, & theatre
🔗More: www.bit.ly/4m1tlau
This week 👇👇👇
Explore our latest report 'Education Equity for the North of England', which calls for school readiness to become a national priority.
#ChildrenFirst #NatOppSummit
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www.n8research.org.uk/media/CotN_E...
Last year, we started a campaign to explore how we can build a country that works for all children and young people.
Today, we launch a new campaign to bring the spotlight back on the 12 most pressing issues.
#ChildrenFirst #NatOppSummit
www.n8research.org.uk/child-of-the...
How can we make cities healthier & fairer places to live, work and play? @ctemenos.bsky.social investigates the intersecting challenges that exacerbate #healthinequalities.
research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/c...
#healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall
@uomseed.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social
Improving access to healthcare for people in marginalised positions - be that those accessing food aid, people in prisons - drives @laurasheard.bsky.social 's research focus on #healthinequalities. Discover more here: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/l...
#healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall
If you want to learn more about cancer research at @manchester.ac.uk, check out out 'One in Two' podcast here: www.manchester.ac.uk/research/bea...
And find more information here: www.manchester.ac.uk/research/bea...
@fbmh-uom.bsky.social
One in two of us will receive a cancer diagnosis at some point during our lives, but your outcomes will be significantly impacted by the inequalities that you may experience.
@sammerriel.bsky.social is working on doing something about that.
#healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall #oneintwo
Last month @healthequitynorth.bsky.social launched #ageinginthenorth, highlighting the inequalities faced by older people in the North of England
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Meet one of the authors, @muarg.bsky.social's, @tinebuffel.bsky.social
#healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall #healthinequalities
Check out the work of #Austerity and Altered Life Courses project here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...
@uomsoss.bsky.social @morgancentre.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social
Centring joy, connection and dignity in anti-poverty activism. 🪧 📢 😁
@smhall.bsky.social is a champion for tackling the causes and consequences of poverty with and for communities and grassroots organisations.
#healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall #healthinequalities
As we are talking about women's health in GM today, let's hear from @manchester.ac.uk's @lukemunford.bsky.social, who was one of the lead authors of the
@healthequitynorth.bsky.social
#womanofthenorth report...
www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/app/uploads/...
#healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall
Today we're at the Women's Health in Greater Manchester Showcase, organised by various parts of GM @nihr.bsky.social infrastructure.
We're listening to Faye Ruddock speaking on insights into black women's health in GM.
#Healthequity #Healthierfuture
Today’s were hosting an important conversation led by Dr Omolade Allen.
Panelists are from GMP, faith leaders, health researchers + family law discussing how to turn research into action for domestic abuse alongside a new exhibition in the glass corridor.
@healthierfutures.bsky.social
On display on the @manchester.ac.uk campus over the summer, Omolade Allen and Caroline Luckham's exhibition in the Samuel Alexander Building, explores the role of Faith-based organisations in supporting ethnic minority women with lived experience of domestic abuse.
@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
Faith based organisations - alongside voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations - are a vital part of the social infrastructure tackling health challenges and inequalities on the ground.
Meet Omolade: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/o...
#healthierfuturesuom
#fairerhealthforall
Thanks to the 27 scholars & practitioners who came together from across the globe for a workshop examining how cities are responding to the complex crises of our time.
The Spatialising Urban Crisis Workshop was convened by @ctemenos.bsky.social as part of a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for urgent action to tackle what it calls a global crisis of loneliness and social disconnection, in a new report informed by the research of Professor Pamela Qualter, the UK's leading scientific expert on child and adolescent loneliness.
@who.int
