Healthier Lives Work
Multi-disciplinary collaboration.
Our work on healthier lives will provoke a step change in research on interventions in the area of lifestyle and health. We will do this through multi-disciplinary collaboration.
We aim to improve health across the life course. We will do this by disrupting conventional thinking and approaches. Our proposed interventions will impact globally by being:
- culturally acceptable
- scaleable
- cost effective
- sustainable
Our healthier lives work and interventions will address the interdependent nature of behaviours. Social, cultural, and political environments will be considered too.
To achieve these advances, we will use:
- biological and behavioural sciences
- digital technologies including artificial intelligence, big data, and other leading edge approaches.
We will engage with industry, policy makers, and civil society. Together we will co-produce effective interventions to promote and bring about behaviour change.
Workstreams
Our workstreams are:
- underpinning science
- intervention development
- evaluation of interventions
- translation into innovative policies, products, and services
They address key global public health challenges. These challenges are driven by many risk behaviours across the life-course including:
- obesity
- cardiometabolic disease
- diabetes
- micronutrient deficiencies
- brain ageing
- musculoskeletal health