Amy Jane Elizabeth Barnes

Amy Jane Elizabeth Barnes is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Sciences at the School for Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of York. Previously, she held a Senior Lecturer position in Public Health at the University of Sheffield and directed the European Public Health (EPH) program across eight European universities. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary public health research, emphasizing community participation, inequality reduction, and policy development.

• Institutional Affiliation: University of York (current), University of Sheffield (former)
• Roles: Senior Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer, Program Director

Research Interests:
Amy specializes in community power and participation as health determinants, addressing inequality through grassroots initiatives. Her research spans topics such as community empowerment, health promotion, timebanking, co-production in local commissioning, inclusive economic models, global health funding, modern slavery prevention, trade policy impacts on food environments, and maternal healthcare scalability. She employs real-time, community-led methodologies and developmental evaluation frameworks.

Publication Trends:
Recent outputs highlight housing associations' roles in health equity, cooperative models for public health, and flexible working policies. These align with her focus on structural determinants of health and systems-level interventions to reduce inequalities.

Funded Projects:
Active in UKRI (MRC) Healthy Urban Places research, NIHR PHR Bradford Health Determinants Collaboration, and NIHR ARC initiatives on early-life health systems. These projects emphasize population health, inequality reduction, and systems approaches to policy implementation.