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Jatinder Hayre
University of Nottingham, School of Medicine
Jatinder Hayre is a student doctor, academic researcher and active campaigner committed to tackling the social and political determinants of health. He is a research associate with the University of Nottingham, and research collaborator with Newcastle University Population Health Sciences Institute. The social conditions and growing inequity exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic led to Jatinder being commissioned by the Independent Sage Group to co-author the authoritative ‘SAGE Report 21: COVID-19 and Health Inequality’. Resulting in the Government delaying the £20-a-week cut to Universal Credit. He has also advocated for a 'whole system approach' to tackling obesity: "tackling poverty, treating obesity".
Jatinder works with the Socialist Health Association, The Fabian Society think tank and Reclaim The Future to devise policy on the political and social determinants of health. Jatinder is also a national spokesperson for Keep Our NHS Public.
Type of member: Provisional Member (since 2022)
Email Address: mzyjh15@nottingham.ac.uk
Website Address: https://jatinderhayre.wordpress.com/
Mailing Address: School of Medicine, Lenton, University of Nottingham, NG7 2UH
Current research interests
Jatinder's research interests lie in the intersection between socioeconomic deprivation and health inequalities, as well barriers to accessing health systems: the inverse care law. In addition to this, he has a research interest in global health; in particular, universal accessibility to essential medicines and health system development in the third world.
Research priorities
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty). Social into the biological and epigenetic. Intergenerational influences. | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty. Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual. Regional studies (within countries). Which indicators? for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health (these may be more reliable in studying mechanisms). Root cause analysis to inform policy change.
Selected publications
Hayre, J. (2020). Tackling Poverty, treating obesity: A ‘whole system’ approach. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 106(12), 1145–1146. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-320552 – Full Text PDF
The Independent SAGE Report 21: COVID-19 and Health Inequality https://www.independentsage.org/covid-19-and-health-inequality/
profile updated: 12/06/2022