Team
Members of the Health Equity and Inclusion Group
Dr Katie Powell
Research Fellow and Theme Lead for Health Equity and Inclusion
Katie works with practitioners and the public to develop novel ways of evaluating community health improvement in collective terms. Her work focuses on how people make sense of inequalities in health and the role of social scientists in supporting attempts to reduce them.
Dr Abi Stevely
Research Fellow
Abi's research focuses on alcohol epidemiology, public health policy evaluation, and reducing health inequalitites.
Dr Michelle Black
Public Health Registrar
An adviser on child and adolescent health in the World Health Organisation's (WHO) regional office for Europe (Athens). Michelle recently completed a National Institute for Health Research Doctoral Research Fellowship (NIHR DRF) on the impact of inequalities in child development on adolescent health.
Her background, prior to specialising in public health, is in pharmacy and she has extensive experience of medicines management in primary and community care in the NHS.
Dr Sarah Barnes
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Sarah's primary research interest is in 'improving the quality of life of older people'. Key research areas arising from this are:-
The impact of the physical environment on the quality of life of older people
Evaluating the housing needs of older people
Improving hospital environments for the end of life care of older people
Assessing the palliative care needs of older people with life-limiting illnesses
Improving communication between patients with life-limiting conditions and their health care professionals
Nick J Fox
Honorary professor of sociology
Nick comes to issues around health inequalities, social justice and empowerment via his research focus upon posthuman and new materialist theory. Areas addressed in recent publications include climate justice, the production of social dis/advantages and gender-related violence. He is currently working with Katie Powell and others on a rhizomatic review of posthumanism and health, and a possible project on community development, participation and activism in the digital society.
Kelly McKenzie
Consultant in Public Health
Consultant in Public Health at Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals, RDaSH and Doncaster Council. Particular interests include: physical activity and sedentary behaviour and the impacts they have on health and workplace health, reducing health inequalities and using whole systems approaches to improving public health. .
Hannah Fairbrother
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
My research focuses on socioeconomic inequalities in health and well-being, particularly as they relate to children, young people and families. This is a longstanding interest and stems from my upbringing in Sheffield, a city of contrasts in health and wealth, visiting family in Liverpool and through voluntary work in Cambridge with young mothers and with children in an underserved area of Paris.
Anna Brook
Public Health Registrar
Anna is a Public Health Registrar currently on a part-time placement with SCHARR at the University of Sheffield. During this placement she is predominantly working as part of the SIPHER team leading some work on a causal review regarding aggregate economic activity & health outcomes https://sipher.ac.uk/.
Anna's current research interests are social justice and the connections with human and planetary health.
Alongside working at SIPHER, Anna is continuing to support the public health response to the Covid-19 pandemic at the Yorkshire & Humber health protection team and doing a placement at Barnsley Hospital focused on their role as an anchor institution.