Applications are still open for HEE Population Health Fellowships

Health Education England is still inviting applicants for its population health fellowship programme, providing exciting opportunities for a wide range of health professionals.

Successful applicants will embark on a year-long part-time fellowship, two days a week, alongside their substantive posts. As part of the initiative, they will receive a taught learning programme and will be required to undertake a population health project at a host organisation.

Population Health is an approach aimed at improving the health of an entire population. It is about improving the physical and mental health outcomes and wellbeing of people, while reducing health inequalities within and across a defined population.

HEE’s national Population Health Fellowship for NHS healthcare staff in England aims to develop and grow a workforce of professionals who will incorporate population health into their everyday jobs.

Mas Amin, National Clinical Advisor & Associate Director, Health Education England, said: “The fellowships present a fantastic opportunity to expand on personal interests, build expertise and make a real difference.

“We welcome applications from a whole range of professionals whose jobs in some way embrace population health.”

Applications for the programme’s fourth cohort are open to fully registered clinicians providing NHS services, and to individuals from the wider workforce who are providing NHS or public sector services which are relevant to population health.

Previous fellows have been recruited from a wide range of backgrounds including nursing, pharmacy, medicine, speech and language therapy, dietetics, orthotics and physiotherapy.

Their projects have covered everything from preventing the spread of communicable diseases in the community to best practice regarding mental illness and diabetes care.

You can find out more information, including the eligibility criteria and a rough guide, by visiting the HEE population health webpage:-

https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/population-health/population-health-fellowship-0