Health Inequalities
Critical Perspectives
Edited by Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, and Sarah E. Hill
Author Information
Katherine E. Smith, Reader, Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK,Clare Bambra, Professor of Public Health Geography, Centre for Health and Inequalities Research, Durham University,Sarah E. Hill, Senior Lecturer, Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK
Katherine Smith is a Reader at the Global Public Health Unit in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on analysing policies affecting public health (especially health inequalities) and better understanding the relationships between public health research, policy, advocacy and lobbying. Katherine recently brought some of this work together in a book entitled Beyond Evidence Based Policy in Public Health: The Interplay of Ideas, as part of a new book series, Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy, which she co-edits with Professor Richard Freeman. From January 2011-December 2012, Katherine held an MRC-ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, followed by an ESRC Future Research Leaders award in 2013-2015.
Clare Bambra is Professor of Public Health Geography, Centre for Health and Inequalities Research, Durham University. Her research focuses on the health effects of labour markets, health and welfare systems, as well as the role of public policies to reduce health inequalities. She has published extensively in the field of health inequalities including a book on Work, Worklessness and the Political economy of Health (Oxford University Press, 2011). She contributed to the Marmot Review (2010); the European Commission's Health Inequalities in the EU report (2013); the US National Research Council Report on US Health in International Perspective (2013) as well as the Public Health England commissioned report on the health equity in the North of England: Due North (2014).
Sarah Hill is a Public Health Physician and Senior Lecturer at the Global Public Health Unit in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on health inequalities and the social determinants of health, tobacco and health, and global health. She is particularly interested in the structural drivers of health inequalities including historical and institutional discrimination and the role of commercial actors in non-communicable disease epidemics. Sarah joined the University of Edinburgh in 2009 having previously worked in research, public health and medicine in New Zealand, the USA, West Africa and the UK.
Contributors:
Clare Bambra, Professor of Public Health Geography, Centre for Health and Inequalities Research, Durham University, UK
Ben Barr, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Applied Public Health Research, University of Liverpool, UK
Melanie Bartley, Professor Emerita, University College London, UK
David Blane, Professorial Research Associate of University College London, Professor Emeritus of Imperial College London, UK
Toba Bryant, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Jeff Collin, Professor of Global Health Policy, University of Edinburgh, UK
Chik Collins, Reader in Applied Social Science, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK
Espen Dahl, Professor, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway
Peter D Donnelly, President/CEO Public Health Ontario, Canada
Margaret Douglas, Deputy Director of Public Health, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK
Eva Elliott, Lecturer, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, UK
Dr Lynne Friedli, Freelance Researcher, UK
Lisa M Garnham, Research Assistant, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, UK
Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
Johanna Hanefeld, Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Development and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Mark Hellowell, Lecturer, Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sarah E. Hill, Public Health Physician and Senior Lecturer, Global Public Health Unit in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK
David J Hunter, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Centre for Public Policy and Health, School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, UK
Jane Jones, previously co-ordinator, Pilton Community Gealth Project from 1984-94 and the Communities Against Poverty (CAP) Scottish Network 2003-06, UK
Gerry McCartney, Head of the Public Health Observatory at NHS Health Scotland, UK
Cathy McCormack, Campaigner on Poverty, Housing, Health and Climate-change, Easterhouse, Glasgow, UK
Ben McKendrick, Communications and External Affairs Director for Myeloma UK
Linda Marks, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Public Policy and Health, School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, UK
Richard Mitchell, Professor of Health and Environment, Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK
Jamie Pearce, Professor of Health Geography, Centre for Research on Environment Society and Health (CRESH), University of Edinburgh, UK
Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology, University of York and co-founder of The Equality Trust, UK
Jennie Popay, Professor of Sociology and Public Health, Lancaster University, UK; Deputy Director, NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) and Director of Engagement, NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for the NW Coast (NIHR CLAHRC NWC), USA
Maximilian R. Ralston, Medical student, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dennis Raphael, Professor of Health Policy and Management, York University, Toronto, Canada
Niamh Shortt, Senior Lecturer in Health Geography, Centre for Environment, Society and Health (CRESH), School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
Katherine E. Smith, Reader at the Global Public Health Unit, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ellen Stewart, Research Fellow, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
Kjetil A. van der Wel, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Professor Gareth Williams, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Wellbeing, Cardiff University, UK
Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham, UK
