The Healthy Futures East Visiting Fellow Programme creates space for health and care or public health professionals across the East of England to lead focused, practical work on priority system challenges.
The programme offers an opportunity to co‑lead a Healthy Futures East Task Force project, working with service leaders, academics and communities to turn evidence into action and support meaningful, system‑wide change.
Visiting Fellow programme details
Focus: Prevention and systems transformation
Duration: Up to 12 months
Time commitment: Minimum of 24 days (approximately 1 day per week, flexibly arranged)
Start date: From 1 April 2026
Number of Visiting Fellow positions available: 2–3
Funding available:
Up to £10,000 for research activity per project
Up to £10,000 for Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) per project
Application deadline: 9 March 2026
The Visiting Fellow Programme does not provide funding for salary backfill. Applicants must secure agreement from their employer to release the required time within their existing role.
Prevention workstream
A shift to prevention is central to achieving long‑term improvements in population health and reducing health inequalities. However, embedding prevention into everyday decision‑making remains challenging across health and care systems.
Fellows play a leading role in shaping and delivering time‑limited, evidence‑informed task force projects designed to produce outputs that are practical, usable and relevant across the region.
Prevention themes
Applicants are invited to propose a project aligned with one of the following themes:
Building Inclusive Prevention: Improving equity by ensuring prevention strategies reflect the needs, priorities and experiences of diverse communities, including those who are underserved or digitally excluded.
Developing Prevention‑Ready Places: Clarifying roles, governance and shared accountability for prevention across NHS organisations, local authorities and voluntary sector partners.
Making Prevention Work: Aligning incentives, commissioning approaches and measurement frameworks to support a shift from treatment‑focused models toward prevention and long‑term population health outcomes.
What Fellows will gain
Healthy Futures East Visiting Fellows benefit from:
- Protected time to focus on a strategically important prevention challenge
- Practical experience of systems leadership through co‑leading a Task Force
- Mentorship from an academic workstream lead and access to HFE expertise
- Opportunities to strengthen skills in applying evidence to practice
- Experience of co‑design with communities and (Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise) VCSE partners
- Access to senior service leaders and regional networks
- Development support focused on systems thinking and leading change
- Funding to support project delivery, including research and PPIE budgets
Who can apply
Applications are welcomed from health and care or public health professionals working across the East of England, including those based in:
- NHS organisations
- Local authorities
- Voluntary and community sector organisations
- Other health, care or public health service settings
Applicants should demonstrate experience of applying evidence to practice, working collaboratively across organisational boundaries, and a commitment to improving population health and reducing inequalities.
How to apply
To apply, please submit:
- A completed application form, and
- An up‑to‑date CV
Applications should be emailed to Dr Danielle Cannon dc415@cam.ac.uk by 2 March 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any questions, please review our Generic FAQ document or the Public Health Registrar FAQ, or contact us directly by email.
Key dates
Applications open: 2 February 2026
Application deadline: 9 March 2026
Interviews: 9–13 March 2026
Outcome notification: By 20 March 2026
