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Our national role in Inequalities research

Inequalities

There are 15 NIHR ARCs across England that work together on a number of key, national areas

Our ARC for the North East and North Cumbria is the lead for Health Inequalities.

One strand of our work in this leadership role is to establish a national Health Inequalities Data Warehouse that will draw together cohort studies, large-scale area-level data sets and area-level NHS and local authority data, to analyse the long-term effects of place, population and area-based interventions on health inequalities, and help to identify populations to target.

We are also delivering a series of national seminars around Health Inequalities.

Priority area funding for research into Health Inequalities

We have also secured an extra £1.87 million of extra funding from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to lead applied research in the national priority area of Health and Care Inequalities. We’ll be working with a number of partners to deliver this project, including with our neighbouring ARC for Yorkshire and Humber, and the Northern Health Sciences Alliance (NHSA).