Professor Clare Bambra

Inequalities

Clare Bambra  is Professor of Public Health.  She is an interdisciplinary social scientist working at the interface of public health, health politics & policy, health geography and social epidemiology. Her mixed methods research focuses on understanding and reducing health inequalities.

She has published widely including several books. She is a Senior Investigator in several large collaborations: CHAIN: Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research; NIHR Policy Research Unit in Behavioural Science, SIPHER: UKPRP consortium on Systems Science in Public Health, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration – North East and North Cumbria (NE-NC-ARC), NIHR Communities in Control study, NIHR School for Public Health Research  and Fuse: the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health.  

Clare is a Director of the Equal England: Health Inequalities Knowledge Exchange Network and she leads a Wellcome Trust grant investigating the North-South health divide. 

Clare led the Independent SAGE report on Covid-19 and Health Inequalities, the NHSA report on Covid-19 in the North and co-leads a Health Foundation Grant on Covid-19 and Health Inequalities.

She works regularly with policy and practice organisations including the NHS, Public Health England, European Union and WHO.