Clare Bambra

Clare Bambra
FMedSci FAcSS
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
University of Manchester
Scientific career
InstitutionsNewcastle University
Durham University
University of Liverpool
Sheffield Hallam University
ThesisOne world? An examination of the convergence of European welfare states (2002)

Clare Bambra is a British social scientist who is Professor of Public Health at Newcastle University. She is the Founding Director of Health Equity North, and has led the Wellcome Trust investigation into the north-south health divide. Bambra is a member of the World Health Organization Europe's Scientific Advisory Group on Health Equity.

Early life and education

Bambra studied political sciences at the University of Birmingham.[1] She moved to the University of Manchester for her postgraduate degree, where she specialised in European politics and policy. She stayed in Manchester for her doctoral research, where she studied convergence of European welfare states.[2] After completing her PhD she moved to the University of Liverpool, where she worked as a research associate in public health policy.

Research and career

Bambra is a social scientist who works on public health and social epidemiology.[3] She is particularly concerned about low life expectancy in North East England.[4] For example, men in the city centre of Stockton-on-Tees die 15 years before those in the suburbs.[5] She founded Health Equity North, a research programme that looks to reduce health inequalities in the North of England.[6][7]

Bambra has studied how health inequalities will evolve in the future, and what needs to be done to reduce health inequalities.[8][9] She has argued that the socioeconomic inequalities generated by work (and no work) are determinants of population health.[10] Bambra is involved with the Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research, CHAIN.[11]

Bambra has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed, where she discussed health inequalities and how to eradicate them.[12] She provided expert evidence to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry.[13][14] She discussed health inequalities during the pandemic, how government understanding of health inequalities evolved over the pandemic and whether the devolved administrations addressed health inequalities equally.[15] Bambra explained that the pandemic disproportionately impacted the most deprived places in the UK, and that the north of England had twice as many vape shops as the south.[16]

In 2024. Bambra was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2025.[17]

Selected publications

  • ; Ryan Riordan; John Ford; Fiona Matthews (13 June 2020). "The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities". Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. doi:10.1136/JECH-2020-214401. ISSN 0143-005X. PMC 7298201. PMID 32535550. Wikidata Q96340347.
  • ; M Gibson; A Sowden; K Wright; M Whitehead; M Petticrew (19 August 2009). "Tackling the wider social determinants of health and health inequalities: evidence from systematic reviews". Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 64 (4): 284–291. doi:10.1136/JECH.2008.082743. ISSN 0143-005X. PMC 2921286. PMID 19692738. Wikidata Q37582713.
  • ; Terje A Eikemo (17 October 2008). "Welfare state regimes, unemployment and health: a comparative study of the relationship between unemployment and self-reported health in 23 European countries". Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 63 (2): 92–98. doi:10.1136/JECH.2008.077354. ISSN 0143-005X. PMID 18930981. Wikidata Q50119523.

References

  1. ^ "Contributors". International Journal of Health Services. 44 (3): 627–633. 2014. doi:10.2190/HS.44.3.k. ISSN 0020-7314. JSTOR 45140460.
  2. ^ "One world? An examination of the convergence of European welfare states | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  3. ^ "Prof Clare Bambra". NIHR School for Public Health Research. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  4. ^ "Low life expectancy in the north east, and what to do about it – with Alice Wiseman and Professor Clare Bambra". www.health.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  5. ^ Garthwaite, Kayleigh; Bambra, Clare (2017-08-01). ""How the other half live": Lay perspectives on health inequalities in an age of austerity". Social Science & Medicine. 187: 268–275. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.05.021. ISSN 0277-9536. PMC 5529211. PMID 28511818.
  6. ^ "Professor Clare Bambra". The NHSA. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  7. ^ Archivist (2016-10-05). "Review: where you live can kill you". Socialist Party. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  8. ^ Bambra, Clare. "Health Divides". Policy Press. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  9. ^ Getting better: the policy and politics of reducing health inequalities (1ST ed.). S.l.: BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PRESS. 2025. ISBN 978-1-4473-7288-2.
  10. ^ Carson, Ed (January 2013). "Clare Bambra (2011), Work, Worklessness and the Political Economy of Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press. £34.95, pp. 242, pbk". Journal of Social Policy. 42 (1): 178–179. doi:10.1017/S0047279412000670. ISSN 0047-2794.
  11. ^ "CHAIN Team people – CHAIN – Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research - NTNU". www.ntnu.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  12. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Health divides - Counting global health". BBC. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  13. ^ UK Covid-19 Inquiry (2023-06-19). UK Covid-19 Inquiry - Module 1 Hearing - 16 June 2023. Retrieved 2025-06-02 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "INQ000195843 - Expert report by Professor Clare Bambra and Professor Sir Michael Marmot, dated 30 May 2023 UK Covid-19 Inquiry Archives". UK Covid-19 Inquiry. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  15. ^ Johnson, Amy (2023-06-16). "Covid inquiry evidence by health inequality expert". NIHR School for Public Health Research. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  16. ^ Thomas, Tobi; Health, Tobi Thomas; correspondent, inequalities (2025-05-22). "Number of vape shops in England rises by almost 1,200% in a decade". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-06-02. {{cite news}}: |last3= has generic name (help)
  17. ^ "Prestigious academy elects leading scientists to its Fellowship". Press Office. 2025-05-22. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
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