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Professor Jennie Popay is Professor of Sociology and Public Health at Lancaster University's Faculty of Health and Medicine, where she directs the Centre for Health Inequalities Research and co-directs the Liverpool and Lancaster Universities Collaboration for Public Health Research (LiLaC), an NIHR School for Public Health Research member. With over four decades of research in public health sociology, she has established herself as a leading expert in health equity, qualitative research methods, and community engagement approaches.
Her research interests focus on the social determinants of health and health equity, evaluation of complex public health policies and interventions, community empowerment, and the sociology of knowledge. She has pioneered qualitative evidence review and synthesis methodologies, establishing the Qualitative Research Methods Group within the Cochrane Collaboration and developing influential Narrative Synthesis Guidance used internationally. Her work consistently emphasizes community-centered approaches to addressing health inequalities and promoting health equity.
Professor Popay's extensive publication record reflects her leadership in health inequalities research, with recent work examining the intersection of economic growth and health equity, pandemic impacts on care economies, austerity effects on local health strategies, and sanctuary city approaches to health and social cohesion. Her research demonstrates consistent methodological innovation while maintaining strong policy relevance across multiple domains of public health.
Among her significant professional contributions are leadership roles as Coordinator of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health's Global Social Exclusion Knowledge Network, Chair of the WHO EURO Disadvantage Task Group, and inaugural chair of The People's Health Trust. She has received substantial research funding from NIHR, ESRC, and other major funders for her work on health inequalities assessment tools and community empowerment initiatives.
Professor Popay has supervised numerous doctoral students and leads multiple active research projects addressing contemporary public health challenges, including food insecurity, migrant health, and pandemic recovery. Her current work emphasizes co-production with marginalized communities and the development of equity-sensitive research methodologies that center community voices in the research process.
