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Championing equality, diversity and inclusion through health and care workforce partnership

Professor Yemisi Takwoingi will be bringing her expertise to national health and care workforce research partnership.

16 April 2025
A health care provider places a bandage on the injection site of a patient who just received an influenza vaccine.

In a bid to tackle challenges facing NHS and social care workers, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has commissioned across the UK. These multi-million-pound partnerships will lead research focusing on challenges in health and care recruitment and retention.

Remote areas of the UK tend to be underserved in access to health and care due to their lack of accessibility and social deprivation. To add, health and care workers in these areas often face more extreme forms of workforce challenges in staff retention and the organisation and quality of teams. will be led by Newcastle University, collaborating with researchers from the University 麻豆精选 as well as the universities of Northumbria, Oxford and York. From Birmingham, Professor Yemisi Takwoingi will be taking on the role of co-investigator as well as the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Lead, to ensure EDI is embedded across the WRP鈥檚 work.

Equity, diversity and inclusion is fundamental to building a health and care workforce that truly serves everyone.

Professor Yemisi Takwoingi, Head of the Department of Applied Health Sciences.

Professor Takwoingi is the Head of the Department of Applied Health Sciences at the University, and will be using her many affiliations with health and care-related EDI groups to support the WRP鈥檚 research. Examples include the through Professor Takwoingi鈥檚 role as their EDI Lead, and the , which she leads.

鈥淓quity, diversity and inclusion is fundamental to building a health and care workforce that truly serves everyone,鈥 she says.

To ensure EDI is at the heart of this research, Professor Takwoingi plans for the partnership to actively involve groups from underrepresented backgrounds in decision-making, as well as co-producing research with diverse communities and making all activities accessible and inclusive by design.

鈥淏y embedding EDI at the heart of our research and leveraging national networks, we will create solutions that respond to urgent workforce challenges, reflect the realities of underserved communities, and deliver meaningful impact at scale across the health and care system.鈥

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    Head of the Department of Applied Health Sciences

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