LECTURE: Who you are or where you are? Social and spatial patterning of health

You are invited to a free public lecture by

Professor Sally Macintyre Director, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow

Who you are or where you are? Social and spatial patterning of health

Date and Time: Wednesday 27 October at 7.00pm

Venue: Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA

Profile:

Sally Macintyre graduated from Durham University in 1970 (BA Hons, Social Theory & Administration), and gained an MSc in Sociology as Applied to Medicine, Bedford College, in 1971. Her PhD was awarded in 1976 (Aberdeen University). After research posts in Aberdeen University and the MRC Medical Sociology Unit, Aberdeen, she became its Director in 1983, and oversaw the unit's move to Glasgow. In 1991 she was made Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Glasgow University. With the merger of the MRC Medical Sociology Unit and the Public Health Research Unit in 1998, she became Director of the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit.

Recently Professor Sally Macintyre has researched socioeconomic and spatial inequalities in health across time and over the life course, using data from individuals, households and areas to improve understanding of the significance of the social and physical environment for health. Current interests include the potential of area-based health promotion initiatives, and developing an evidence-base for health improvement and reducing health inequalities. Sally is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Society of Medicine, is Editor-in-Chief of Social Science & Medicine, and was awarded the OBE for services to Medical Sociology in

This lecture is presented by the Institute of Advanced Studies in association with the Public Health Association



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