HDRC Lunchtime Webinar - Transport and Health

Exploring how transport shapes health equity and the social determinants of health. Dr Jessica Allen - Deputy Director of the Institute of Health Equity Jessica began working with Michael in 2008, joining to head the secretariat for the 2010 Marmot review. Since then, Jessica and Michael have worked together to build the IHE and strengthen action on health equity and the social determinants across the UK and around the world. In her role as Deputy Director, she has shaped the strategic direction of the Institute and overseen its work and development. She has worked closely with international organisations, including WHO, national and local governments, businesses, the economic sector, community and voluntary sector organisations and public health and health care systems. She has published widely on the social determinants of health and led much of the Institute’s work. She leads IHE’s work with places in the UK and beyond, now numbering over 60. She has worked with global organisations including the UN, leading the current WHO Special Initiative, UNAIDS, and led the production of WHO regional health equity reports including the Eastern Mediterranean Region Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas and the Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide in the WHO European Region. She was co-author of the 2010 Marmot Review Fair Society, Healthy Lives, the 2020 Marmot Review 10 Years On report and Build Back Fairer: The COVID-19 Marmot review. Jessica has also been involved in national reviews including most recently for Norway, Hong Kong and Taiwan. She has led many of the Institute’s evidence reviews on a wide range of social determinants of health and health inequality assessments. She is a member of several advisory groups in England and internationally. Prior to her work at IHE she was head of Health and Social Care at IPPR, Research Fellow in Public Health at the Kings Fund, and worked at the London School of Economics, UNICEF. She has published and broadcast widely and holds a doctorate from the University of London.