Lead: Professor Elena Vacchelli (Partner on collaborative project)
Duration: 1 February 2024 - 31 July 2025
Funder: UK Research and Innovation
Total Value: £2.4 million
Project Overview
Refugees, asylum seekers and migrants can experience poor health caused by a variety of factors such as language barriers, employment, education and poverty. This project will explore how community assets can be used to improve health, wellbeing and social support that addresses these factors. Examples of community assets include advice and information services, community hubs and groups, religious organisations and open spaces.
It will research new ways for these factors to be addressed within integrated health systems that bring together services such as the NHS and local authorities as well as the voluntary sector.
