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class="container"><div class="row justify-content-center"><div class="col-12 col-sm-10 col-lg-8"><h2>We鈥檙e developing a world class academic centre focused on: </h2></div></div><div class="row justify-content-center"><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-lg-4"><div class="reveal-panel acha-radius"><div class="reveal-panel-image"><img src="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/panel-research-720x720.jpg" alt="" /></div><div class="reveal-panel-content"><img class="reveal-panel-icon" src="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/icon-research.png" alt="" /><h3>Research</h3><div class="reveal-panel-expand"><div><p>Creating research capacity and closing knowledge gaps in healthy ageing and clinical frailty to respond to pressing local clinical questions focused on prevention of poor outcomes</p> </div></div></div></div></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-lg-4"><div class="reveal-panel acha-radius"><div class="reveal-panel-image"><img 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care informed directly by ACHA鈥檚 research and tailored to individual needs and preferences</p> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="cb cb-highlight-block"><div class="bg-pattern-g"><div class="container"><div class="row align-items-center justify-content-center"><div class="col-6 col-md-4"><img src="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/awi-theme/lib/images/logo-highlight.svg" alt="" /></div><div class="col-12 col-md-8"><p>ACHA has been designed to speed up health and care transformation by connecting research to frontline care. It's uniquely positioned to deliver real impact locally by transforming how services support people as they grow older while helping reshape and grow the local health and care workforce.</p> </div></div></div></div></section><section class="cb cb-image-text"><div class="cb-content bg-grey"><div class="container"><div class="row align-items-center"><div class="col-12 col-md-6"><div class="fl-image fl-image-right"><img class="acha-round" src="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PXL_20240614_110143974-720x720.png"><img class="fl-image-decor" src="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/awi-theme/lib/images/logo-image.svg" alt="" /></div></div><div class="col-12 col-md-6"><h1><span class="TextRun SCXW264959770 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun CommentHighlightClicked SCXW264959770 BCX0">Workshop Invite: Shape our Strategy</span></span></h1> </div></div></div></div></section><section class="cb cb-welcome"><div class="cb-content bg-pattern-w"><div class="container"><div class="row align-items-center justify-content-center"><div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-lg-4"><img src="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/awi-theme/lib/images/logo-home.svg" alt="" /></div><div class="col-12 col-md-8 col-lg-7"><p>ACHA is running a series of sandpit workshops during March 2025 to help shape the future of healthy ageing in North East London.</p> <a class="btn btn-arrow" href="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/shape-our-strategy/">Find out more</a></div></div></div></div></section><section class="cb cb-feature-list"><div class="cb-content bg-grey"><div class="container"><div class="row align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-xxl-between"><div class="col-12 col-md-6 col-xxl-5"><h2>Improving care and services for older people by</h2><ul><li>Combining academic and clinical expertise</li><li>Generating real world evidence of what works</li><li>Using the evidence to make changes to care and support services</li><li>Developing the local workforce to implement changes</li></ul></div><div class="col-12 col-sm-10 col-md-6"><div class="fl-image"><img class="acha-round" src="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/fl-home-720x720.jpg" alt="Two people talking while one holds a pot of flowers" /><img class="fl-image-decor" src="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/awi-theme/lib/images/logo-image.svg" alt="" /></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="cb cb-reveal-panels"><div class="cb-content bg-grad-b"><div class="container"><div class="row justify-content-center"><div class="col-12 col-sm-10 col-lg-8"><h2>Meet Our Three Renowned Professors Appointed to Lead ACHA:</h2></div></div><div class="row justify-content-center"><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-lg-4"><div class="reveal-panel acha-radius"><div class="reveal-panel-image"><img src="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1.png" alt="" /></div><div class="reveal-panel-content"><h3>Adam Gordon, MBE</h3><div class="reveal-panel-expand"><div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-lg-4"><div class="reveal-panel acha-radius"><div class="reveal-panel-image"><img src="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2.png" alt="" /></div><div class="reveal-panel-content"><h3>Liz Sampson</h3><div class="reveal-panel-expand"><div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-lg-4"><div class="reveal-panel acha-radius"><div class="reveal-panel-image"><img src="https://acha.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/3.png" alt="" /></div><div class="reveal-panel-content"><h3>Hamish Simpson</h3><div class="reveal-panel-expand"><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="cb cb-cta"><div class="cb-content bg-grey"><div class="container"><div class="row align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-between"><div class="col-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-lg-7 col-xl-6"><a class="btn btn-arrow" 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