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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 was a research associate with the University of Nottingham, and with Newcastle University Population Health Sciences Institute. He is now affiliated with Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London. 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 Vice Director of the Socialist Health Association and active within The Fabian Society Think Tank.
Type of member: Regular (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: 02/22/2025