Population Health Fellowship

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. It includes action to reduce the occurrence of ill-health, including addressing wider determinants of health, and requires working with communities and partner agencies. (Source: PHE Multi-agency Stakeholder Forum 2019)

Our national Population Health Fellowship (PHF) for health and care workers, as well as others in public sector roles relevant to population health, continues to develop a workforce of professionals who integrate population health into their daily responsibilities. The aspiration of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan is to have a fellow working in every Integrated Care System (ICS) to support the development of local expertise in population health and to help systems establish more population health roles.

The programme has delivered four cohorts and will now be offered as a Postgraduate Certificate by the University of Salford.

If you have any additional questions, please contact NHS England on england.ltcp@nhs.net

Applications are now open for the NHS England Population Health Fellowship (cohort five)

Providing exciting opportunities for a wide range of health professionals successful applicants will embark on a one year part-time fellowship, two days a week, alongside their substantive posts. As part of the initiative, they will receive a taught learning programme, PgCert qualification at level 7, provided by the University of Salford and will be required to undertake a population health project in the workplace.

Dr Maslah Amin, Associate Medical Director at NHS England, said: “The fellowships offer a fantastic opportunity to pursue personal interests, develop population health skills, and make a real impact on health inequalities. We welcome applications from a broad range of health and care professionals, as well as public sector workers whose roles influence population health.”

Previous fellows have been recruited from a wide range of backgrounds including nursing, pharmacy, medicine, speech and language therapy, dietetics, orthotics, physiotherapy and non-clinical roles. Their projects have covered everything from preventing the spread of communicable diseases in the community to best practice regarding mental illness and diabetes care.

Applications for the programme’s fifth 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. Applicants will have to apply through the University of Salford’s admissions portal and follow this procedure and document requirements.

You can find out more information, including the eligibility criteria, by visiting the University of Salford website.