How has the project come about?

Question:: How has the project come about?
Answer:: In 2022, Tower Hamlets Council and its core partners received five years of funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to establish the Tower Hamlets Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC). The goal of the HDRC is to make Tower Hamlets a borough that can enable high-quality, collaborative, applied, impactful, and co-produced research on the factors driving health inequalities. To achieve this, the Tower Hamlets HDRC is committed to strengthening and developing community research, ensuring that health determinants research is co-produced with residents and local communities. Establishing a co-produced P&C research system with relevant stakeholders - including P&C researchers based in Tower Hamlets, research-active VCS organisations, academic researchers, and local authority officers - will support the 12 HDRC in enabling residents to conduct research that informs local policy and brings about positive change for the community.