Professor Dame Margaret Whitehead has spent the last 40 years attempting to tackle inequalities in health, over 20 of those years in the renowned public health city of Liverpool. It’s been a long and winding road. With tales of the unexpected, she reflects on the...
In this latest blog from LiLaC, Harris Kaloudis makes the case for ‘systems resilience’ over ‘community resilience’ in tackling upstream determinants of health inequalities In a newly published paper, a team of researchers from Liverpool and Lancaster...
A recent report led by LiLaC researchers paints a stark picture of inequality for children growing up in the North of England post-pandemic compared to those in the rest of the country. The considerable costs to society and the UK’s economy of rising inequality are...
The 10th of May 2022 marked the end of my NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) Postdoctoral Launching Fellowship. For the duration of this award, I was based in the Centre for Health Inequalities Research at Lancaster University (one arm of the LiLaC...
The NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) has launched a PhD studentship competition, which offers a flexible opportunity to start a PhD in April 2022 for part-time applicants (studentships up to 5 years part-time) and by October 2022 for full-time applicants...
Levelling up health will only succeed if we invest across the whole of local government. Written by Alex Alexiou, Ben Barr, Kate Mason, Davara Bennett, Katie Fahy and David Taylor-Robinson. The Government has committed to level up the country and ensure that no place...
