A multidisciplinary team of UCL researchers have launched a new centre for inclusion health. The new UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health will research, evaluate and lobby for health services and interventions aimed at excluded groups.
The aim is to improve care of the most vulnerable and under-served members of society such as homeless people, migrants, drug users, sex workers and prisoners.
The centre also aims to prevent social exclusion from occurring in the first place through research and advocacy, and will ‘co-produce’ research with members of excluded groups.
The centre has already been involved in evaluation of a new way of addressing cardiovascular disease in homeless individuals.
And one key upcoming piece of work will focus on understanding the health and social care needs of frequent A&E attenders who come from vulnerable populations.
The Centre was launched as a response to a Lancet Systematic Review that showed a 10-fold increase in mortality for homeless people, prisoners, drug users and sex workers.
It is co-directed by Prof Andrew Hayward (Director – UCL Institute of Epidemiology and HealthCare) and Dr Alistair Story (Lead – UCLH Find&Treat Service).
Read a blog written by researchers at the Centre on upcoming work and what inclusion health is: Inclusion Health: Co-producing a research and advocacy agenda.
