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Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University

Clare Bambra is Professor of Public Health. Her research examines health inequalities; the political, social, economic and environmental determinants of health; and how public policies and interventions can reduce health inequalities.

She is also the Associate Director and Health Inequalities lead for Fuse: Centre for Translational Research in Public Health and an Executive member of the NIHR School for Public Health Research.

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University

Publications

  • 2016
    Health Divides: where you live can kill you, Policy Press
  • 2016
    Health Inequalities: Critical Perspectives, Oxford University Press
  • 2015
    Neoliberal Epidemics: How Politics Makes Us Sick, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2011
    Work, worklessness and the political economy of health, Oxford University Press

Grants and Contracts

  • 2015
    HiNews: Health Inequalities in European Welfare States
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    NWO/ESRC
  • 2013
    Local Health Inequalities in an Age of Austerity
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Leverhulme Trust
  • 2013
    fuse: The Centre for Research Excellence in Translational Research in Public Health
    Role:
    Senior Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Medical Research Council (MRC)
  • 2012
    School for Public Health Research
    Role:
    Senior Investigator
    Funding Source:
    National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

Honours

AcSS