This year’s Health Research in Action highlights some of the many notable impacts and outcomes of our work. It includes a snapshot in numbers of recent work completed, followed by 22 success stories about wide-ranging health and social care research across five themes.

The stories include HRB-funded projects about identifying when and how people experience social exclusion, advancing drug screening for rare disease, examining factors influencing the wellbeing of family carers, and strengthening supports for breastfeeding. Research conducted directly by HRB staff made many important contributions to national conversations around varied aspects of health policy, including women’s health, sunbed use and eating disorders in under-18s.