With support from the Prudence Trust, the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute and the Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO) have funded a talented individual to conduct research into mental health in children and young people.
Friday 7 April 2023 is ‘World Health Day’: an annual event hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO). This year, it marks exactly 75 years since the WHO’s foundation: a chance to take stock of great work done and the challenges that remain ahead. The theme of this year’s World Health Day is ‘Health For All’, which centres health as a human right and the importance of good health for everyone’s fulfilment. Here, Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Director, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, reflects on what health research is, and how it's contributing to achieving health for all.
A new report has revealed for the first time the wide-ranging and increasing health dangers posed by long-term weather extremes in the UK, as the effects of climate change deepen.
This Earth Day (22 April) – an international day for environmental protection - we are raising awareness of how our changing climate is affecting our health. Watch our series of films to find out more about the challenges we face and how research is part of the answer.
This Mental Health Awareness Week (13 to 19 May 2024) we caught up with a researcher we supported to find out the latest with their work looking into developing an emotion recognition toolkit for autistic children.
In April 2023 we launched a rapid research funding call for interdisciplinary health research. The aim was to support health-related research in any context, including: equitable and sustainable health; climate, environment and health; infectious disease research; mental health; and transformative technologies for health. Below you'll find details of the researchers and projects we will be supporting.
Student wellbeing is of paramount concern to all academic institutions. Students are vulnerable to mental health problems – because of their age range, as well as the lifestyle changes associated with starting university. Here we share how the positive psychology ‘Science of Happiness’ course helped improve wellbeing for University of Bristol students, and explain the broader potential an online version of the course may have for improving mental wellbeing beyond the student body.
September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Month. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol, is the most common preventable cause of neurodevelopmental disability worldwide, and it’s thought to be particularly prevalent in the UK. It is associated with learning and behaviour problems, issues with physical and mental health, substance misuse and social problems, including over-representation in the criminal justice system. Despite this, there is little data and little research into FASD in the UK.
Anxiety and depression are impairing mental health problems that commonly co-occur and often develop in adolescence. Many young people with anxiety and depression do not receive any treatment and, if they do, treatments are not always effective. It is important to prevent anxiety and depression to improve young people’s lives. In a Prudence Trust/Elizabeth Blackwell Fellowship, Dr Naomi Warne will co-design a novel art-based programme to prevent anxiety and depression in UK secondary schools.
With support from the Franklin-Adams endowment, during 2024 we ran two funding calls to support research on children and young people's health, with a focus on global health. The awards are named after Dr Joan Franklin-Adams who was a medical doctor who specialised in paediatrics.
