NIHR themes and work strands

NIHR themes

The NIHR's work is organised under five broad themes:

1. We fund, support and deliver high quality research

2. We engage and involve patients, carers and the public

3. We attract, train and support the best researchers

4. We invest in world-class infrastructure and a skilled delivery workforce

5. We partner with other public funders, charities and industry

Find out how the various parts of NIHR work across these themes.

Research priorities

As well as investing in research to help the NHS and care providers meet the major health and social challenges they face, we are responding rapidly to national research priorities, especially the Government's 2020 Dementia Challenge and the pressing need to address Antimicrobial Resistance identified by the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally C Davies FRS FMedSci. Find out more.

Four work strands

The NIHR is structured so that our health research activities can be managed through four complementary work strands:

• Infrastructure: providing the facilities and people for a thriving research environment
• Faculty: supporting the individuals carrying out and participating in research
• Research: commissioning and funding research
• Systems: creating unified, streamlined and simple systems for managing research and its outputs.

We work in partnership with many sectors including other Government funders, academia, charities and industry.

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