Margaret Whitehead

Dame Margaret McRae Whitehead DBE (born 28 September 1948) holds the W.H. Duncan chair in Public Health at the University of Liverpool.[1] She heads the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Policy Research on the Social Determinants of Health.[2]

Whitehead has published extensively on the effects of social equality on health and also the social concequences of chronic ill health.[3] She has advised on government policy[4] and has written reports for the WHO on tackling inequalities in health.[5] She is also an associate editor for the Cochrane Public Health Review Group since 2008 and has a visiting Professorship at the Karolinska Institute.[6]

Whitehead was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to public health.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Margaret Whitehead, about". University of Liverpool.
  2. ↑ "WHO Collaborating Centre for Policy Research on Social Determinants of Health,Margaret Whitehead". Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Margaret Whitehead, research". University of Liverpool.
  4. ↑ "Record of Testimony, Health Inequality - Health Committee". UK House of Commons. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Concepts and principles for tackling social inequities in health: Levelling up Part 1" (PDF). World Health Organisation. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Margaret Whithead, academic roles". University of Liverpool. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 61450. p. N8. 30 December 2015.
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