A sociological and historical perspective on health inequalities: implications for current policy debates Mike Kelly, Institute of Public Health and Simon Szreter, Faculty of History

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Understanding Inequalities: new thinking for public policy

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Professor Kelly is Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge and a member of St John’s College, Cambridge. Between 2005 and 2014 he was the Director of the Centre for Public Health at the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) where he led the teams producing public health guidelines. Professor Kelly’s research interests include the methods and philosophy of evidence based medicine, prevention of CVD, health inequalities, health related behaviour change, the causes of non-communicable disease, end of life care, dental public health and the sociology of chronic illness. Professor Simon Szreter is a Fellow of St John's College and Professor of History and Public Policy at the Faculty of History. Professor Szreter is an historian of population, public health and reproduction. His most recent books have all presented historical studies with diverse contemporary public policy implications: Registration and Recognition. Documenting the Person in World History (2012), The Big Society Debate. A New Agenda for Social Welfare? (2011), History, Historians and Development Policy (2011) and Sex Before the Sexual Revolution (2010). Simon Szreter is a Steering Committee member of the Public Policy SRI.