Health Equity and Inclusion Group
A collaboration within
Our Goal
To work in partnership with local people and stakeholders to improve understanding of, and action on, health inequity.
Our principles
We focus on the social and political determinants of health.
We specialise in participatory and inclusive research methods.
We use theory-informed approaches to addressing health inequity.
Recent projects
Depicting local systems of consumption that produce inequalities
Project Lead: Katie Powell k.powell@sheffield.ac.uk
Project Lead: Hannah Fairbrother h.fairborther@sheffield.ac.uk
Activism for Planetary Health & Equity
Building a learning partnership, between academics, activists and the public health workforce, to support future practice, research and evaluation of ‘Activism for planetary health and equity’
Project Leads: Katie Powell, Anna Brooke a.brooke@sheffield.ac.uk
Housing insecurity for families with children
This project aims to explore local authority strategies for reducing housing insecurity among families with children. We will develop a picture of current experiences of housing insecurity, the factors that drive housing insecurity and what information would help local authorities to provide better support to at-risk families.
Project lead: Hannah Fairbrother