Improving health and reducing inequalities: Mayoral Regions Programme
A three-year programme supports Mayoral Regions in England to improve health and reduce inequalities by building capacity, sharing resources, and fostering regional collaboration on wider health determinants.
Funder: Health Foundation
Due Dates: No standard application deadlines; programme runs Spring 2023 – Spring 2026
Funding Amounts: £1.3 million total programme funding; support is non-competitive and provided via direct collaboration, not individual research grants
Summary: Supports Mayoral Regions in England to improve health and reduce inequalities by building capacity, providing resources, and fostering collaboration at the regional level.
Key Information: Not a traditional grant competition; participation is via regional authority partnership with the programme.
Description
This initiative, led by the West Midlands Combined Authority in partnership with eight other Mayoral Regions and funded by the Health Foundation, is a three-year programme (Spring 2023 – Spring 2026) designed to help Mayoral Regions in England leverage their unique powers and resources to address the wider determinants of health—such as employment, transport, and planning. The programme focuses on building capacity, sharing evidence-based resources, and strengthening regional collaboration to improve health outcomes and tackle inequalities.
Support is delivered through direct partnership with Combined Authorities, offering practical tools (such as the Health in All Policies toolkit), embedded posts, webinars, learning networks, and tailored consultancy. The programme is not an open grant call for individual researchers but is a system-level intervention involving regional authorities and their strategic partners.
