This CHAD seminar on the Natural Environment and Health took place on Wednesday May 17th at Staffordshire University, Leek Road Campus, Stoke-on-Trent. More than 30 delegates attended, including those from academia, voluntary organisations, local authority and NHS. Dr Christopher Gidlow and Dr Gemma Hurst provided an introduction to the association between exposure to natural environment…
The Power of Working Together – Working in partnership really works! Welcome to the latest CHAD blog. We really value the opportunity that blogging creates for us as a team to draw a breath and reflect on our progress over the last couple of months and hope it is interesting to you too. We want…
CHAD developing links with potential Japanese partners, Dr Peter Kevern (Associate Director and lead for Healthy Living) recently presented on the work of CHAD at a Symposium on ‘Healthy and Active Ageing’ hosted by the London office of the Japan Agency for Medical research and Development (AMED) in April. AMED is the Japanese equivalent of…
This seminar on Social Value and Participatory Research Methods took place on Wednesday the 5th April 2017, 45 persons attended the seminar with a good mixture of internal and external people. Get Talking – the power of participatory research. Penny Vincent (pictured above), Senior Lecturer for Community Engagement and Community Partnerships, kicked off the proceedings with a…
CHAD were honoured to have a visiting guest lecture delivered by Professor Aliko Ahmed, Chair of Public Health Africa, and current Director of Public Health England for the East of England. Previously the Director of Public Health for Staffordshire NHS and County Council, and a founding member of CHAD. The lecture entitled ‘Global Health Interdependencies…
Dr. Mona Fouad with the CHAD Team Connecting communities is at the heart of CHAD’s mission to carry out locally relevant, translational research into health inequalities. When we knew that we were fortunate enough to have a four-day visit from Dr Mona Fouad* from the University of Alabama, we were keen to share with her…
The Centre for Health and Development (CHAD) is pleased to announce the launch of its Small Grants Fund. The purpose of this funding announcement is to stimulate locally relevant research into health inequities across Staffordshire University. This funding will provide an opportunity for you to partner with an academic member of staff from the university…
We held our first CHAD seminar of 2017 on Wednesday 1st February, focussing on homelessness in Stoke-on-Trent. The seminar was well attended by representatives from the Council, Clinical Commissioning Group, Police and Charity organisations as well as staff and students from the University. Dr Rachel Massie, Research Associate at CHAD, was our first speaker. She…
Well done to Kostas Spyropoulos, a PhD student within CHAD, who was invited to speak at a lunchtime research seminar at Staffordshire University on Wednesday 18/1/2017. This series of research seminars has been organized by Chris Gidlow (Academic Director of CHAD and Associate Professor at Staffordshire University) providing PhD students the opportunity to present their…
A blog written by Professor Sian Griffiths the independent Chair of the CHAD Board, highlighting a £1 housing scheme by Stoke City Council, has been published on The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) website. The scheme was set up in 2013 in a run down area of the city around Portland Street with the…