Public Health Accelerator Bids (PHAB)

Funding for new projects that deliver services to help everyone in Essex to live a healthy life and achieve their full potential

What projects we can fund

Projects need to:

  • be new or add something to a service
  • help achieve good physical and mental health outcomes at either an individual level or a community level. This includes improved quality and length of life

We will prioritise projects that:

  • adopt the principles of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) to empower communities to make healthier choices and maximise their opportunities
  • use Population Health Management to identify groups experiencing or at risk of poor health
  • support positive mental health to improve quality of life and healthy life expectancy
  • address the main six lifestyle risk factors: smoking, high body mass index (BMI), high systolic blood pressure, high LDL cholesterol, high fasting blood glucose and alcohol use