The British Heart Foundation are delighted to become a funding charity partner in Our Future Health, a leading health research programme.
Despite advances in healthcare and medicine, large numbers of people in the UK still spend many years of their later life in poor health because of common diseases and health conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes and stroke.
Our Future Health helps health researchers to tackle these major diseases. Using data, Our Future Health aims to develop new ways to detect diseases at an earlier stage, and even prevent them from occurring in the first place.
As a funding charity partner, along with providing funding, we will sit on Our Future Health’s Founders Board, a crucial part of Our Future Health’s governance that brings together the charity and industry partners who are co-funding the programme.
Our Future Health’s funding charities work collaboratively, sharing knowledge, expertise and resources to accelerate progress in improving health outcomes for the entire UK population, including under-served communities who historically have not been well represented in research programmes of this nature.
Tackling the greatest health challenges
Commenting on the BHF joining as a charity funding partner, Professor Bryan Williams OBE, our chief scientific and medical officer, said: “We are proud to become a funding partner in Our Future Health, a vital research programme with a mission is to tackle the greatest health challenges facing us today.
“With one person in the UK dying every three minutes from cardiovascular disease, making transformational advances in prevention, detection and treatment of one of the country’s biggest killers is key to ensuring millions of people live in better health for longer.”
Dr Raghib Ali, Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer of Our Future Health, also commented, “We’re delighted that the British Heart Foundation has signed as a funding charity partner.
“We share a commitment to tackling heart and circulatory diseases and particularly focussing on research on prevention and in historically under-represented groups. We are looking forward to working with BHF towards a future where people can spend more years of their life with good cardiovascular health.”
