Tackling multimorbidity at scale: Understanding disease clusters, determinants & biological pathways

Research on multimorbidity has been identified as an urgent priority for the UK and globally following the Academy of Medical Sciences’ (AMS) report on Multimorbidity and the follow-up workshop jointly organised by the MRC, the NIHR, AMS and Wellcome. Multimorbidity is defined by this report as the co-existence of two or more chronic conditions in a single individual, including mental and physical conditions and long duration infectious diseases.

The overall objective is to bring together world-leading multi-disciplinary expertise in epidemiological research, mechanistic, and data science to catalyse multimorbidity research nationally and at scale through supporting a portfolio of Research Collaboratives.