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Bioscience for an integrated understanding of health: strategic framework

This framework provides a refreshed roadmap outlining BBSRC’s approach in supporting bioscience for an integrated understanding of health.

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This framework highlights four key themes that the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) will use to support and enable a deeper, more integrated understanding of the determinants of health. The four key themes are:

  • ageing and health across the life course
  • food and nutrition for health
  • combatting infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance
  • transformative technologies for health

The framework is underpinned by two core principles that will be embedded within all research and innovation initiatives supported by BBSRC. They are:

  • One Health: a unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimise the health of people, animals and the environment
  • the 3Rs: a guiding framework for the replacement, reduction and refinement of animals used in research

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  • 24 July 2025
    Document updated: two names and affiliations added to page 27.

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