Welcome to the collaboration space for the Public Health Challenge Lab held at the University of Essex on 23 and 24 July 2019.   This website will be used to collect and share information before, during and after the event, and provide a space for participants to continue their collaborations.

Sections currently available:

• Pre-event - information about the Challenge Lab and participants
• On the day - capturing the profiles, discussions and ideas
• Post-event- summary of applications

Access is restricted to Lab participants only.

About the Lab

The Challenge Lab is a facilitated two-day event during which practitioners and experts from a mix of sectors will explore urgent public health issues associated with, for example, mental health, wellbeing, ageing, and environment, and cross cutting data, systems and risk challenges.   During this two day event small interdisciplinary teams bringing together University of Essex academics from across the disciplines and sector professionals will discuss and delve into the challenges and co-develop projects to explore potential solutions.  At the end of the event teams will pitch their project to secure funding to test their propositions in practice.  Up to £10,000 will be available for each project.   This Challenge Lab approach has been used to successfully fund a breadth of small scale and proof of concept projects addressing other challenges in different sectors, with projects from basic science to testing innovative solutions and generating of social sciences impact accessing a range of funding sources.

The event forms part of the activities for the Univesity of Essex's Impact Acceleration Account 2, funded by the ESRC.   If you have any questions please contact iaa@essex.ac.uk