Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing

Welcome to the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
The Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing is Durham’s flagship interdisciplinary Institute tasked with delivering the Health@Durham Strategy. Established in 2001, we foster research relating to human health and wellbeing in both developed and developing countries from the individual to global scale.
Interdisciplinary approaches
Our mission is to encourage and support high calibre interdisciplinary research to understand and address human health challenges.
We do this through our Challenge Academies. Each has been carefully built to address local and global unmet need in health-related issues. Closely aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, these Academies have the interdisciplinary approach unique to Durham University built in. In this way, each Academy can address major problems in health and wellbeing, but also be responsive to new challenges as they arise.
We help our Challenge Academies grow, fostering networking, identifying and assisting with funding opportunities, expanding their internationalisation and ensuring impact through clinical, industry or policy collaboration. This approach is central to our core ethos where our Academies address the beginning (identifying the correct question), the middle (understanding who the problem affects and how) and the end (how we can use this knowledge to create purpose built solutions that donโt just help some of the people some of the time but all of the people, all of the time).
Health at Durham
We're a collaboration of 44 specialist centres, academies and projects, with over 40 undergraduate courses and postgraduate programmes. Unbound from clinic, we frame health differently. Our vision for health is for people to thrive in the places they live. We embrace physical, mental, social and environmental health, envisioned as a synergy of self, beliefs, culture, family, community and planet.
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Room 236
Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
C/O Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
Tel: + 44 (0) 191 334 0013