School of Health in Social Science

Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health

CHIH are a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and local partners in Scotland to improve the health and wellbeing of people who experience homelessness. 

Our research focus at the Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health is on the multiple and complex ways that health care professionals, homelessness services and people who experience homelessness interact to improve or limit health care outcomes.

We are a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and local partners in Scotland to improve the health and wellbeing of people who experience homelessness. Our partners include Cyrenians, Simon Community Scotland, Homeless Network Scotland, Crisis, Shelter, Bethany Christian trust, Street Support Network, Social Bite, Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership, and Edinburgh City Council.

We are passionate about inclusion health and are working to prevent and redress health inequalities among those who are the most marginalised in society.

We do this through community engagement, education and research. In a spirit of co-creation, we work with our community partners towards a vision of Edinburgh as a socially just and inclusive city where everyone can flourish.

Our Projects:

Home intervention for patients with COPD

PHOENIx