The Bupa Foundation is an independent medical and health research charity that funds research to prevent, relieve and cure sickness and ill health. The Foundation aims to fund high quality research with the potential to improve the health of individuals across the UK and internationally.
The Bupa Foundation has donated approximately £3 million to medical research and healthcare initiatives across a range of clinical disciplines from medicine to public health. The Foundation currently donates approximately £3 million per year through its research grants multi-country grants to encourage international collaboration, Philip Poole-Wilson Seed Corn Grants and the Foundation Prizes.
Bupa currently donates £3 million per year through Gift Aid to the Bupa Foundation.
Aims
The charitable objects (intentions) expressed above are interpreted in the aims to fund:
Implementation of translational and action orientated research-based solutions, which:
- drive tangible action to prevent or alleviate chronic disease or the adverse elements of ageing, and to promote wellbeing
- lead to the sustained uptake of healthy lifestyles
- measurably improve public health to a significant degree
And/or research which leads to the development of such solutions.
Objectives
The Foundation’s objectives are:
To offer grants to fund research into identifying and evaluating solutions with the potential to improve health outcomes at a population-level as well as reducing health inequalities. Population groups of particular interest, although not exclusive, are: young children and families, and older adults. Intervention settings might include workplaces as well as educational establishments.
The funding will be available for the following areas:
- achieving sustained behaviour changes in relation to smoking, diet, physical activity and/or alcohol consumption
- facilitating wellbeing and preventing mental ill health
- improving patient decision-making through, for example, shared decision-making interventions
- improving the design of community health activities by using new technologies to cost-effectively organise and interpret health outcome data
The Bupa Foundation is dedicated to providing support for research into the prevention, relief and treatment of ill health, for the public good.
All projects should develop, apply or test research-based approaches in community settings - with clear intended impacts on public health.
