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Mughal, R., Reynolds, R., Thomson, L.J., Waterson, H., Manley, K., Gilmore, C., Coulter, A., & Chatterjee, H.J. (2024) Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities: A synthesis and review of Phase 2 case studies. London: University College London.

Read the Case Study Synthesis: https://ncch.org.uk/uploads/MCA_Phase-2_Case_Study_Synthesis.pdf

This synthesis brings together insights generated by 16 community-university partnerships. They found that, since health issues manifest in integrated communities of people, so too do the assets that can effectively address many of the health challenges that people in local communities do face.

As a result, researchers worked towards identifying and strengthening existing community assets that can address health needs and inequalities through co-designed and co-produced activities.

This work has enabled the Mobilising programme to generate new knowledge on how to build scalable health programmes with communities that provide key insight about health across a broad range of ages, genders, classes and ethnicities.

Resource Output from the Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities (MCA) Programme

Mobilising Community Assets (MCA) is a three-phase UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded Research Programme running from 2021 to 2027. It is coordinated by the Culture-Nature-Health Research Group at University College London, in partnership with the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), led by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), with Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Medical Research Council (MRC). MCA has encouraged the projects it has funded throughout the UK to share knowledge and approaches to integration of community assets into the integrated care structures that exist in the local communities.