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Behavioural Activation Training

Behavioural Activation TrainingDiscover behavioural activation and how it can be used to help depression by stimulating our interest in day-to-day activities. Visit our BA learning pages.

Welcome to the Centre for IMPACT

Welcome to the Centre for IMPACTOur new £7.6m Centre for IMPACT builds on the previous work delivered by the NIHR Global Health Research Group IMPACT (Improving Outcomes in Mental and Physical Multimorbidity and Developing Research Capacity in South Asia).

Training tomorrow’s research leaders

Training tomorrow’s research leadersAt least 60% of the new Centre’s research trainees will be women. The new Centre for IMPACT will train researchers, particularly women scholars, to become tomorrow’s research leaders.
Female research delivering a training session

DiaDeM Programme

DiaDeM ProgrammeThe DiaDeM research programme aims to develop and test culturally appropriate treatment for depression in people with diabetes in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

TuBerculosis MultiMorbidity (TBMM)

TuBerculosis MultiMorbidity (TBMM)Find out about the TuBerculosis MultiMorbidity (TBMM) network of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners who are passionate about improving TB programmes and services.

Welcome to the Centre for IMPACT

IMPACT is a NIHR Global Health Research Centre established to improve mental and physical health together.

Centre for IMPACT is jointly led by Aga Khan University in Pakistan and the University of York in the UK with Rawalpindi Medical University and Khyber Medical University both in Pakistan partnering and key collaborators in:

  • Afghanistan (HealthNet TPO and Kabul University of Medical Sciences)
  • Pakistan (Baqai Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology and The Initiative)
  • UK (Universities of Edinburgh and Liverpool) 
  • Luxembourg (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)

Ahead of the launch event in Islamabad on 1st November 2022 members of the team shared their aspirations for the new Centre for IMPACT.

The Centre’s goal is to promote mental and physical health in Afghanistan and Pakistan by reducing premature deaths and disabilities caused by non-communicable diseases. We focus on common mental disorders (depression and anxiety), heart conditions, and diabetes. We will evaluate approaches to prevent and treat these, targeting those most at risk, and –uniquely– giving mental health parity alongside physical health.

We are training researchers, particularly women scholars, to become tomorrow’s research leaders. We are raising standards of health research conducted in our institutions and promoting an environment in the two countries that demands, understands, and utilises research to inform policy and practice.

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