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Jatinder Hayre

Jatinder Hayre

ccQueen Mary University of London


Dr Jatinder Hayre is a medical 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’.

He is politically active and elected to the Central Council of the Socialist Health Association and active within The Fabian Society Think Tank.


Type of member: Provisional Member (since 2022)


Telephone: 07403138006

Email Address: Jatinder.Hayre1@NHS.Net

Website Address: https://jatinderhayre.wordpress.com/

Mailing Address: 10 Hughes Place


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: 10/31/2024