The Community and Health Research Unit received the team achievement award for research for the seventh successive year for 2022 at this year’s university awards ceremony which took place on 10 November at the Engine Shed.
The team includes Profs Niro Siriwardena and Graham Law, Drs Murray Smith, Coral Sirdifield, Zahid Asghar, Stephanie Armstrong, Julie Pattinson, Joseph Akanuwe, Elise Rowan, Vanessa Botan, Gupteswar Patel, Tom Parkhouse, Mehrshad Parvin Hosseini and Greg Whitley, with Viet-Hai Phung, Despina Laparidou, Priya Sharma and Sue Bowler. It also includes visiting international and associate staff including Dr Dinesh Koggalage, Dr Maria Kordowicz, 
and Prof Roderick Orner. We were sad to bid farewell to Prof Murray Smith, who was recently promoted to Professor in Rural Health Economics at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales.
Over the past year CaHRU began 16 new externally funded studies and continued more than 30 others, including major COVID programmes and clinical trials. We continued our success in competitive high-quality external research funding despite the pandemic, with 16 successful external funding applications to value of £1.5M with every academic member of CaHRU being a lead or collaborator on a funded study.
Two major textbooks, three book chapters and over 50 peer reviewed research papers were published or accepted in the past year including landmark studies of ambulances attending diabetes emergencies, community first responders, mental health during COVID, GPs in Emergency Departments, ethics of ambulance trials, and psychological treatment of insomnia, in leading journals including Diabetic Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Age and Ageing and Addiction.
In addition to may long-term collaborations with academic and health service partners in the UK and internationally we have had major new collaborations including the EDGE consortium with McMaster, Canada and athe European Prehospital Research Network. CaHRU was also proud to have been major contributor to REF2021, leading the Allied Health submission, returning six staff, 15 outputs and all three impact case studies.