Health and Wellbeing

Health is essential to sustainable development and is intertwined with issues such as economic growth and poverty, education, gender equality and the environment. Health is not merely concerned with disease and mortality, but also promoting physical, mental and social well-being for individuals and populations across the life course. Despite significant improvements in health and wellbeing across the globe, it is widely acknowledged that this has masked inequality in progress between and within countries.

Social justice is a core value of our hub, and our expertise in participative and inclusive research methods are used to explore diversity and inequality in health and wellbeing from the cradle to the grave. The hub brings together research in the areas of:

Children, young people and families.
Ageing, death, dying and bereavement.
Reproduction, sexualities, and sexual health.
Learning disability and long-term conditions.

It focuses on the complementarities of health and wellbeing and the impact on sustainable development.

Projects

Improving the mental wellbeing of young mothers in West African countries
This Open Societal Challenge project aims to co-develop, pilot and evaluate a local intervention focused on supporting the mental wellbeing of young mothers in West Africa.

Learn more about CSGD projects here.