University launches health facility

The Institute for Health and Wellbeing will have six research themes: healthy communities, health promotion, men’s health, men, gender and wellbeing, nutrition and childhood obesity, pain science and management.

Prof Mike Kelly, director of the Centre of Public Health Excellence at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, said: “This development is going to make a very big impact on a range of different areas of health and wellbeing. To understand the nature of the health of society, we have to focus not only on the mortality and morbidities but the broader concept of wellbeing.”

A new university research project is also being launched to track the health and wellbeing of children from birth.

The BABY (Born and Bred in Yorkshire) Project is a partnership between midwives and doctors at York Hospital and researchers at Hull York Medical School and in the Department of Health Sciences at York University. It will follow a group of babies and their parents from pregnancy.