MA and PhD Studentship in Understanding and reducing global health inequalities, Newcastle University
Globally, there are stark health inequalities between people from different socio-economic groups. For example, in the UK people from the most deprived neighbourhoods live 9 years less than those from the most affluent; there is a 25 year gap in life expectancy between poor and rich residents of New Orleans, USA; and in low and middle income countries, infant mortality rates are more than 7 times higher in the least educated groups compared to the most educated. Research has indicated that it is the political, social and economic factors embedded in societal structures that are the key drivers of these inequalities in health.
As part of the Centre for Global Health Inequalities and working closely with international academic and policy collaborators, this Masters and PhD in Global Health Inequalities will use quantitative data to examine how we can better understand and reduce health inequalities – globally.
Examples of potential projects include examining: trends in health inequalities in South Africa; inequalities in cancer outcomes in low and middle income countries; the effects of long term political and economic changes on health inequalities in different countries. The exact PhD question will be agreed by the student and supervisors together.
supervisor(s)
Professor Clare Bambra and Dr Heather Brown
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have at least a 2:1 degree in a discipline relevant to public health research (such as economics, sociology, human geography, biomedical sciences, anthropology etc) and demonstrable quantitative research skills (e.g. completion of a quantitative undergraduate dissertation).
The award is available to UK/EU applicants only. If English is not your first language, you must have IELTS 7 with at least 6.5 in the written component, or equivalent.
Deadline 10th July
Details here: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/hs039.html
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