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Professor Phillip Helliwell, Rheumatology Consultant at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and a Senior Lecturer in Immunology, has been nominated for the Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Healthcare award in the 2024 ‘Our Health Heroes’ awards.

Researchers from Born in Bradford (BiB), based at the Bradford Institute for Health Research, are part of a team that have been awarded the Academics Stand Against Poverty Book.

This month, the Ageing and Stroke Research (ASR) unit, at the Bradford Institute for Health Research, celebrates 36 years of commitment, innovation, and perseverance in conducting world-class research to improve the health and care of older people and survivors of stroke.

The NIHR has funded a new Research Support Service Public Health Specialist Centre (PHSC) comprising of two Hubs hosted by the Universities of Newcastle and Southampton.

Professor Mark Mon-Williams of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber, based at the Bradford Institute for Health Research, led on the newly published ‘Child of the North’ report which shows that schools in the Bradford District are losing out on hundreds of pounds of funding per pupil compared to those in London.

Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the four-year-long research project will be carried out by a team led by clinical researcher and specialist registrar in geriatric medicine, Dr Oliver Todd

As many as one-in-two healthcare attendances for breathing difficulties in Bradford could be triggered by breaches in daily air pollution limits, new research funded by the National Institute for Health Research has uncovered.