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Nesta is a research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time, working across the innovation lifecycle.

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Social movements for health

Nesta has collaborated with seven social movements working to shift the way health and care services are delivered across the UK.
In Health

Much needed social change has been driven time and again by people coming together in social movements, to fight for their rights, solve problems and shift how people think.

We define a health social movement as a people-powered effort to promote or resist change in the experience of health or the systems which shape it. We believe there is untapped potential to combine the energy and dynamism of social movements with the need for radical institutional change.

Our work with social movements is helping us learn how to effectively support people powered change in health services.

Explore the seven social movements we've collaborated with below.

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Social Movements for Health

Celebrating Black queer men

Northern Ireland's mental health emergency

Challenging health inequalities in East Brighton

Caring for care workers

People with learning disabilities need their voices heard

Medical students for people powered health

Social approaches to mental health

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We extend our impact through two specialised units that help people and organisations to solve complex problems and achieve their goals.

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BIT helps clients from government, nonprofits and the private sector to improve people’s lives through our empirical problem solving and deep understanding of human behaviour.

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Challenge Works designs and runs challenge prizes to spark innovation in science, technology and society.

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