Professor Heather Brown
Professor of Health InequalitiesMy research expertise is in applied econometrics. I am particularly interested in the causes and consequences of health inequalities and evaluating policies that mitigate or excaerbate these inequalities. I am interested in understanding how both structural level factors and policy impacts on inequalities across generations and the life course. I am also interested in engaging with a wide range of stakeholders to make complex quantitative data anaylsis accesible and user friendly.
The causes and consequences of health inequalities including the persistence of inequalities across generations and how the environment contributes to these. Policy evaluation and linkage of novel datasets.
<糖心Vlog>External RolesNIHR PRP core committee member
Cabinet Office: Evaluation and Trial Task Force Panel Member
Advisory Group Member: ClimateXChange
Advisory Group Member: Understanding Society Survey
<糖心Vlog>Additional InformationI am founding and Lead Convenor of the Teaching Health Economics Special Interest Group of the International Health Economics Associate. I am also an associate editor of the journal: Health Economics
<糖心Vlog>Current TeachingI currently teach and supervise students on the Blended Learning PhD Programme
<糖心Vlog>PhD Supervision InterestsI am interested in supervising students in the areas of health inequalities in particular place based, integenerational inequalities, inequalities across the life course, and health inequalities in relation to climate change
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01/04/2026 → 31/03/2029
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01/04/2026 → 31/03/2031
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01/09/2025 → 28/02/2027
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01/08/2025 → 31/01/2027
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01/09/2024 → 31/03/2027
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01/09/2024 → 31/03/2027
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01/03/2024 → 28/02/2027
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01/02/2024 → 31/07/2024
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01/09/2023 → 30/06/2025
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01/09/2023 → 31/10/2025
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17/08/2023 → 16/11/2024
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01/04/2023 → 30/01/2024
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01/03/2023 → 28/02/2024
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01/11/2022 → 31/03/2024
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01/10/2022 → 30/09/2027
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01/06/2022 → 30/11/2022
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25/04/2022 → 31/08/2025
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01/02/2022 → 31/03/2024
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- Health Economics