Inequality, inequity, and intersectionality

Building a fairer and more equitable society

The focus of this theme is on the wider determinants of health and approaches to reduce inequalities and promote equity. This theme aims to

• Understand intersectionality in inequality
• Improve measurement of inequalities
• Apply novel methods to link people to places
• Strengthen the evidence base for equity

This theme leverage on: 

• Our track record of work on ethnicity, sex/gender, and our work with providers and patients with disabilities, care home residents, homeless people, housebound residents, migrants/asylum seekers, substance misusers, people with learning or other disabilities, people with serious mental illness
• Our methodological developments to create open source algorithms enabling linkage of health and administrative data using Unique Property Reference Numbers to address geospatial inequalities (eg air pollution), housing overcrowding, household composition, and to evaluate local and national policies (eg free school meals)
• Our expertise in working with communities underrepresented in population and genomic health, via successful research programme such as Genes & Health

Staff

John Robson  |  Jianhua Wu  |  Carol Dezateux  |  Stuart Rison

Ana Gutierrez