Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures) is a digital health hub that aims to address the unmet health and care needs of populations in the North East and North Cumbria region of the UK by facilitating responsible cross-sector research, innovation, and training.
We are a consortium uniting:
We take a people-centred approach and are committed to humanising health-tech by championing equity, participation, and investment across the region. We practice participant-led user research and evaluation of tools and resources to strive for the design of useable and useful technologies and services.
Our goal is to establish NortHFutures as a pioneering ecosystem working across job sectors that empowers people to engage and lead in digital health and health-tech initiatives.
The UK has an urgent need for new health data scientists – it’s a rapidly expanding field with the recognised potential to transform the future of health and care for all, and health data science should serve and reflect the needs of the entire UK population. Once again, NortHFutures is
This summer, we were fortunate to welcome two interns into our lab to explore how data science and machine learning might support better clinical decision-making in maternal mental health. Together, they tackled a challenging and sensitive topic using synthetic data, exploring risk factors for postnatal depression and safeguarding concerns, and
This year, the NortHFutures Digital Health Hub has helped broaden and deepen the pool of talent in the health data research sector by sponsoring seven places on Health Data Research UK’s pioneering Black Internship Programme (BIP). The BIP, organised by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), fosters a more
