About Us
About Health Equity North
Health Equity North is a virtual institute focused on place-based solutions to public health problems and health inequalities. Our members have a unique understanding of their regional communities, creating research and policy solutions of local benefit, but also with the potential for national and international translation.
Health Equity North is a key resource for political and civil stakeholders. We welcome collaborations with like-minded organisations and institutions.
Vision
To end health inequity through research, policy impact, and public health improvement.
Mission
To fight health inequity by influencing policymakers and enhancing understanding of health inequalities through research-informed evidenced solutions.
Our Vision
To end health inequity through research, policy impact, and public health improvement.
Our Mission
To fight health inequity by influencing policymakers and enhancing stakeholder understanding of health inequalities through research-informed evidenced solutions.
Health Equity North is supported by the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA)
A health and life sciences partnership between leading NHS hospital trusts, universities, and academic health science networks in Northern England.
The NHSA works together with its members, industry, and government to mobilise the North’s assets for the benefit of the people and the economy by, brokering research collaborations, building expert networks, attracting investment, and providing a unified voice for the region’s health research system.
Our Team
Meet our Directors
About Hannah Davies
She has led the Northern Health Science Alliance’s health inequalities work from launching the 2018 Health for Wealth report to its most recent reports developing relationships with academics, government and other stakeholders.
About Kate Pickett
She is a world-leading figure in public health. She heads the Public Health and Society Research Group and is Deputy Director of the Centre for Future Health at the University of York. She is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of the bestselling The Spirit Level (2009) and The Inner Level (2018). Kate co-led the NHSA/N8 Child of the North report.
About David Taylor-Robinson
He is a Professor of Public Health and Policy at the University of Liverpool, and a Professor of Child Public Health at the University of Copenhagen. He works clinically as a Consultant in Public Health at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. David leads Liverpool’s Health Inequalities Policy Research Group (HIPR) and he recently co-led the N8/NHSA Child of the North report.
About Clare Bambra
She is a Professor of Public Health, at Newcastle University and author of Health Divides and An Unequal Pandemic. She leads the health and care inequalities theme for the National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaborations and is a Senior Investigator in the NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria. Clare led the Health for Wealth report and co-led the Covid19 reports
About Luke Munford
He is a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at The University of Manchester. He co-leads the ‘health in a wider context’ theme within the School of Health Sciences as well as the economic sustainability theme within the NIHR ARC Greater Manchester. Luke led the Health Inequalities in Left Behind Neighbourhoods report and co-led the Covid19 reports.
About Amy Barnes
Amy's work focuses on power and control: how institutional conditions enable or constrain how people or groups can develop and exercise their capabilities to be healthy and thrive. She has worked on a range of different public health topics: child of the north, coproduction in local commissioning, community action, neighbourhood planning, food systems, governance and inclusive decision-making.
About Sam Khavandi
Sam is a NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Health Economics at the University of Manchester. He is an applied health economist with a background in public health focusing on the wider determinants of health and consequences of health inequalities.
About Natalie Bennet
Natalie is a Research Associate in the Institute of Population Health Sciences at Newcastle University and holds an inequalities fellow position within the National Institute of Health Research North East and North Cumbria Applied Research Collaboration. Natalie is a social epidemiologist with a background in human geography and a keen interest in the role of place and geography on health and inequalities.
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