Improving Population Health programme news, blogs and events

In this blog, Scott Crosby, Associate Director, Centre for Excellence in Tobacco Control, Kaye Mann West Yorkshire Tobacco Control Lead and Sarah Hepworth, South Yorkshire Tobacco Control Lead describe how the three integrated care boards and 15 local authorities are working together to build a smoke-free future across Yorkshire and the Humber.

This week’s leadership message comes from Sonya Robertshaw, Workforce Lead for the West Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism Programme and Emilie Akselsen, Recruitment and Inclusion Coordinator at Touchstone. We also have a blog from Nicola Smith, Housing Co-ordinator (Learning Disabilities and Autism) at Wakefield District Housing.

This week’s leadership message comes from Nigel Harrison, CEO of Yorkshire Sport Foundation, and Jo Baker, Associate Director, Strategy and Transformation and Sonya Ainley, Senior Project Manager for the Perinatal Pelvic Health Service for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Local Maternity and Neonatal System (WY&H LMNS).

This week’s leadership message comes from Jim Barwick, CEO, Leeds GP Confederation. We also have a blog from Amritpal Reyat, Strategic Programmes and Health Inequalities lead at Wakefield District Health and Care Partnership.

To mark National Co-production Week (1-5 July), this week’s leadership message comes from Arfan Hussain, Strategy and Transformation Programme Manager, and Colin Hurst, Insight, Involvement and Consultation Lead for NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). For Clean Air Day, which took place on 20 June, we also have a blog from Maria Storer, Project Manager for Climate Change and Housing at the ICB.

This week’s leadership message comes from Jason Pawluk, Programme Director for West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance. We also have a blog from Dr Sunil Daga, Consultant Nephrologist and West Yorkshire’s kidney health lead.

This week’s leadership message comes from Rachel Forbes, Acting Consultant in Public Health in the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership's Improving Population Health team. We also have this blog from the Global Partnerships Programme about what it is like to undertake a fellowship abroad.

This week’s leadership message comes from Jen Connolly FFPH, Associate Director Population Health, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and West Yorkshire Combined Authority

This week's leadership message comes from Sally Bridges, Programme Manager NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration (YH ARC) and BaBi Network Director, Bradford Institute for Health Research. To mark World Kidney Day on 14 March, this week’s blog comes from West Yorkshire’s kidney health lead, Dr Sunil Daga.