Clare Bambra (PhD, FAcSS)  is Professor of Public Health.

She is an interdisciplinary social scientist working at the interface of public health, health politics & policy, health geography and social epidemiology.

Her mixed methods research focuses on understanding and reducing health inequalities.

She has published widely including several books.

She is a Senior Investigator in several large collaborations: CHAIN: Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research; NIHR Policy Research Unit in Behavioural Science, SIPHER: UKPRP consortium on Systems Science in Public Health, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration - North East and North Cumbria (NE-NC-ARC), NIHR Communities in Control study, and NIHR School for Public Health Research  and Fuse: the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health.  

She is a Director of the Equal England: Health Inequalities Knowledge Exchange Network

She works regularly with policy and practice organisations including Public Health England, European Union and WHO.

You can listen to Clare talk about her research on BBC Radio or listen to her public lecture.

Recent Grants

• CHAIN: Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research, Norwegian Research Council, 2019-2024, €6,800,000
  
• SIPHER: UKPRP Consortium for Systems Science in Public Health, UKPRP, 2019-2024, £4,900,000
• Communities in Control Study: An evaluation of a natural policy experiment in community empowerment, NIHR, 2018-2022. £659,000.
• NIHR School for Public Health Research, 2017-22, £1,800,000
• Fuse: Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, MRC, 2013-2018, £3,400,000.
• NIHR Policy Research Unit in Behavioural Science, 2019-2024, £4,800,000
• NIHR Applied Research Collaboration - North East and North Cumbria (NE-NC-ARC), NIHR, 2019-2024, £9,000,000
• Local health inequalities in an age of austerity: the Stockton on Tees study, Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Grant, 2013-2018, £997,000.
• Health inequalities in European welfare states (HiNEWS), NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe), 2015-2018, €1,030,000

Awards and Honours

• Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) (since 2013)
• Member of the WHO Europe Scientific Advisory Group on Health Equity (since 2017)
• Member of the Punching Above their Weight (PAW) global health network (since 2019)
  
• Editorial board member of the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (since 2018)
• Wellcome Trust Fellowship Awards panel member (since 2016)
  
• BMA book award winner (2016)
• Panel member, Due North Inquiry into Health Equity (2014)
• Task group member, Marmot Review of Health Inequalities (2010)
  
• NICE Expert Review Group member (since 2018)
• Leverhulme Research Leadership Award holder (2013-18)
• Visiting Professor, University of Montreal (2017)
• Visiting Researcher, Karolinska Institute (2010)
  

Professor Clare Bambra has over 20 years teaching experience and holds a PGCert in Higher Education.

At undergraduate level, Clare contributes to the public health components of the MBBS and BMS and leads an SSC on health inequalities. She also supervises public health projects on the MPharm and BMS degrees.

At postgraduate level, she contributes sessions to the Masters in Public Health and the Masters in Global Health and she supervises MPH and MRes Epidemiology dissertation students.

She supervises PhD students with interests in health inequalities. 

• Yannish N, Baker P, Tillmann T, Bash K, Hillier-Brown F, Jayatunga W, Black M, Quantz D, Roderick P, Gopfert A, Barr B, Bambra C. Going upstream – an umbrella review of the macroeconomic determinants of health and health inequalities. BMC Public Health 2020, 19, 1678.
• Watts PN, Rance S, McGowan V, Brown H, Bambra C, Findlay G, Harden A. The long-term health and wellbeing impacts of Healthy New Towns (HNTs): protocol for a baseline and feasibility study of HNT demonstrator sites in England. Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020, 6, 4.
• Bambra C, ed. Health in Hard Times: Austerity and Health Inequalities. Bristol: Policy Press, 2019.
• Langthorne M, Bambra C. Health Inequalities in the Great Depression: a case study of 1930s Stockton on Tees, North East England. Journal of Public Health 2019, ePub ahead of print.
• Besnier E, Thomson K, Stonkute D, Mohammad T, Akhter N, Todd A, Jensen MR, Kilvik A, Bambra C. Which public health interventions are effective in reducing morbidity, mortality and health inequalities from infectious diseases amongst children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): protocol for an umbrella review. BMJ Open 2019, 9(12), e032981.
• Morris K, Beckfield J, Bambra C. Who benefits from social investment? The gendered effects of family and employment policies on cardiovascular disease in Europe. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2019, 73, 206-213.
• Todd A, McNamara CL, Balaj M, Huijts T, Akhter N, Thomson K, Kasim A, Eikemo TA, Bambra C. The European epidemic: Pain prevalence and socioeconomic inequalities in pain across 19 European countries. European Journal of Pain 2019, 23(8), 1425-1436.
• Bambra C. The political economy of the United States and the people’s health. American Journal of Public Health 2019, 109(6), 833-834.
• Taylor-Robinson D, Lai E, Wickham S, Rose T, Bambra C, Whitehead M, Barr B. Assessing the impact of rising child poverty on the unprecedented rise in infant mortality in England 2000-17: time trend analysis. BMJ Open 2019. In Press.
• Meier P, Purshouse R, Bain M, Bambra C, Bentall R, Birkin M, Brazier J, Brennan A, Bryan M, Cox J, Fell G, Goyder E, Heppenstall A, Holmes J, Hughes C, Ishaq A, Kadirkamanathan V, Lomax N, Lupton R, Paisley S, Smith K, Stewart E, Strong M, Such E, Tsuchiya A, Watkins C. The SIPHER Consortium: Introducing the new UK hub for systems science in public health and health economic research [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research 2019, 4, 174.
• Niedzwiedz C, Thomson K, Bambra C, Pearce J. Regional employment and individual worklessness during the Great Recession and the health of the working-age population: Cross-national analysis of 16 European countries. Social Science & Medicine 2019.
• Bambra C, Smith K, Pearce J. Scaling up: The politics of health and place. Social Science & Medicine 2019, 232, 36-42.
• Hillier-Brown F, Thomson K, McGowan V, Cairns J, Eikemo T, Gil-González D, Bambra C. The effects of social protection policies on health inequalities: Evidence from systematic reviews. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2019, 47(6), 655-665.
• McGowan V, Wistow J, Lewis S, Popay J, Bambra C. Pathways to mental health improvement in a community-led area-based empowerment initiative: Evidence from the Big Local ‘Communities in Control’ study, England. Journal of Public Health 2019, Epub ahead of print.
• Robinson T, Brown H, Norman P, Barr B, Fraser L, Bambra C. Investigating the impact of New Labour's English health inequalities strategy on geographical inequalities in infant mortality: a time trend analysis. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2019, 73, 564-568.
• Thomson K, Hillier-Brown F, Walton N, Bilaj M, Bambra C, Todd A. The effects of community pharmacy delivered public health interventions on population health and health inequalities: a review of reviews. Preventive Medicine 2019, 124, 98-109.
• Smith D, Thomson K, Bambra C, Todd A. The breast cancer paradox: a systematic review of the association between area-level deprivation and breast cancer screening uptake in Europe. Cancer Epidemiology 2019, 60, 77-85.
• Garthwaite K, Bambra C. ‘It's like being in Tattooville’: An ethnographic study of territorial stigma and health in a post-industrial town in the North East of England. Health and Place 2019, 54, 229-235.
• Bambra C. From quotas to sanctions: the political economy of disability rehabilitation in the UK. In: Harslof, I; Poulsen, I; Larsen, K, ed. New Dynamics of Disability and Rehabilitation. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp.69-96.
• Curtis S, Pearce J, Cherrie M, Dibben C, Cunningham N, Bambra C. Changing labour market conditions during the ‘great recession’ and mental health in Scotland 2007–2011: an example using the Scottish Longitudinal Study and data for local areas in Scotland. Social Science and Medicine 2019, 227, 1-9.
• McMahon N, Thomson K, Kaner E, Bambra C. Effects of prevention and harm reduction interventions on gambling behaviours and gambling related harm: an umbrella review. Addictive Behaviors 2019, 90, 380-388.
• Lewis S, Bambra C, Powell K, Barnes A, Townsend A, Ponsford R, McGill R, Orton L, Halliday E, Salway S, Whitehead M, Popay J. Reframing "participation" and "inclusion" in public health policy and practice to address health inequalities: evidence from a major resident-led neighbourhood improvement initiative. Health and Social Care in the Community 2019, 27(1), 199-206.
• Todd A, Thomson K, Kasim A, Bambra C. Cutting care clusters: the creation of an inverse pharmacy care law? An area level analysis exploring the clustering of community pharmacies in England. BMJ Open 2018, 8(7), e022109.
• Addison M, Kaner E, Johnstone P, Hillier-Brown F, Moffatt S, Russell S, Barr B, Holland P, Salway S, Whitehead M, Bambra C. Equal North: How can we reduce health inequalities in the North of England? A prioritisation exercise with researchers, policymakers and practitioners. Journal of Public Health 2019, 41(4), 652-664.
• Bambra C. First do no harm: developing interventions that combat addiction without increasing inequalities. Addiction 2018, 113(5), 787-788.
• Bambra C, Munford L, Brown H, Wilding A, Robinson T, Holland P, Barr B, Hill H, Regan M, Rice N, Sutton M. Health for Wealth: Building a Healthier Northern Powerhouse for UK Productivity. Northern Health Sciences Alliance, 2018.
• Forster T, Kentikelenis A, Bambra C. Health Inequalities in Europe: Setting the Stage for Progressive Policy Action. Dublin: TASC, 2018.
• Beckfield J, Morris K, Bambra C. How social policy contributes to the distribution of population health: The case of gender health equity. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2018, 46(1), 6-17.
• Akhter N, Bambra C, Mattheys K, Warren J, Kasim A. Inequalities in mental health and well-being in a time of austerity: follow-up findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study. Social Science and Medicine: Population Health 2018, 6, 75-84.
• Farrants K, Bambra C. Neoliberalism and the recommodification of health inequalities: a case study of the Swedish welfare state 1980 to 2011. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2018, 46(1), 18-26.
• Bambra C. Placing health inequalities: where you live can kill you. In: Valorie A. Crooks, Gavin Andrews, Jamie Pearce, ed. Routledge Handbook of health geographies. London: Routledge, 2018, pp.28-36.
• Bambra C, Reibling N, McNamarra C. 'States of health: Welfare regimes, health and health care'. In: Greve, B, ed. The Routledge Handbook on the Welfare State. London, UK: Routledge, 2018.
• Graham E, Thomson K, Bambra C. The association between diabetes and depressive symptoms varies by quality of diabetes care across Europe. European Journal of Public Health 2018, 28(5), 872-878.
• Thomson K, Hillier-Brown F, McNamarra C, Todd A, Huijits T, Bambra C. The effects of public health policies on health inequalities in high-income countries: an umbrella review. BMC Public Health 2018, 18, 869.
• Todd A, Akhter N, Cairns JM, Kasim A, Walton N, Ellison A, Chazot P, Eldabe S, Bambra C. The Pain Divide: a cross-sectional analysis of chronic pain prevalence, pain intensity and opioid utilisation in England. BMJ Open 2018, 8(7), e023391.
• Gkiouleka A, Huijts T, Beckfield J, Bambra C. Understanding the micro and macro politics of health: Inequalities, intersectionality & institutions - A research agenda. Social Science and Medicine 2018, 200, 92-98.
• Leão T, Campos-Matos I, Russo G, Bambra C, Perelman J. Welfare states, the Great Recession and health: Trends in educational inequalities in self-reported health in 26 European countries. PLoS ONE 2018, 13(2), 1-14.
• Garthwaite K, Bambra C. “How the other half live”: lay perspectives on health inequalities in an age of austerity. Social Science and Medicine 2017, 187, 268-275.
• Mattheys K, Warren J, Bambra C. “Treading in sand”: A qualitative study of the impact of austerity on inequalities in mental health. Social Policy and Administration 2017, 52(7), 1275-1289.
• Mawn L, Oliver EJ, Ahkter N, Bambra C, Torgerson C, Bridle C, Stain HJ. Are we failing young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs)? A systematic review and meta-analysis of re-engagement interventions. Systematic Reviews 2017, 6, 16.
• Cairns JM, Graham E, Bambra C. Area-level socioeconomic disadvantage and suicidal behaviour in Europe: a systematic review. Social Science and Medicine 2017, 192, 102-111.
• Baumberg Geiger B, Warren J, Garthwaite K, Bambra C. Assessing work disability for social security benefits: international models for the direct assessment of work capacity. Disability and Rehabilitation 2017, 40(24), 2962-2970.
• Huijts T, Gkiouleka A, Reibling N, Thomson KH, Eikemo TA, Bambra C. Educational inequalities in risky health behaviours in 21 European countries: Findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health 2017, 27(Suppl. 1), 63-72.
• Bhandari R, Akhter N, Warren J, Kasim A, Bambra C. Geographical inequalities in general and physical health in a time of austerity: Baseline findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study. Health and Place 2017, 48, 111-122.
• Bambra C, Garthwaite K, Greer Murphy A. Geo-political aspects of health:Austerity and Health Inequalities. In: A Bonner, ed. Social Determinants of Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Inequality and Wellbeing. Bristol University Press: Policy Press, 2017.
• Brown H, Fattakhova G, Bambra C, Taylor P. Making healthy homes? A pilot study of the return on investment from an external wall insulation intervention. BMC Research Notes 2017, 10, 736.
• Cairns JM, Wistow J, Bambra C. Making the case for qualitative comparative analysis in geographical research: a case study of health resilience. Area 2017, 49(3), 369-376.
• Balaj M, Huijts T, McNamara C, Stornes P, Bambra C, Eikemo TA. Non-communicable diseases and the Social Determinants of Health in the Nordic countries: findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2017, 45(2), 90-102.
• McNamara CL, Toch-Marquardt M, Balaj M, Reibling N, Eikemo TA, Bambra C. Occupational inequalities in self-rated health and non-communicable disease in different regions of Europe: findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health 2017, 27(Suppl. 1), 27-33.
• Huijts T, Stornes P, Eikemo TA, Bambra C, The HiNews Consortium. Prevalence of physical and mental non-communicable diseases in Europe: Findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health 2017, 27(Suppl. 1), 8-13.
• Thomson KH, Renneberg AC, McNamara CL, Akhter N, Reibling N, Bambra C. Regional inequalities in self-reported conditions and non-communicable diseases in European countries: Findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health 2017, 27(Suppl. 1), 14-21.
• Øversveen E, Rydland T, Bambra C, Eikemo T. Rethinking the relationship between socioeconomic status and health: Making the case for sociological theory in health inequalities research. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2017, 45(2), 103-112.
• McNamara CL, Balaj M, Thomson KH, Eikemo TA, Bambra C. The contribution of housing and neighborhood conditions to educational inequalities in non-communicable diseases in Europe: findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health 2017, 27(Suppl. 1), 102-106.
• Hillier-Brown F, Bambra C, Thomson K, Balaj M, Walton N, Todd A. The effects of community pharmacy public health interventions on population health and health inequalities: a systematic review of reviews protocol. Systematic Reviews 2017, 6, 176.
• Eikemo TA, Bambra C, Huijts T, Fitzgerald R. The First Pan-European Sociological Health Inequalities Survery of the General Population: The European Social Survey Rotating Module on the Social Determinants of Health. European Sociological Review 2017, 33(1), 137-153.
• Beckfield J, Balaj M, McNamara CL, Huijts T, Bambra C, Eikemo TA. The health of European populations: introduction to the special supplement on the 2014 European Social Survey (ESS) rotating module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health 2017, 27(Suppl. 1), 3-7.
• Bambra C, Cairns JM. The impact of place on suicidal behaviour. In: Socioeconomic disadvantage and suicidal behaviour. Surrey, UK: Samaritans, 2017, pp.8-31.
• Naik Y, Baker P, Walker I, Tillmann T, Bash K, Quantz D, Hillier-Brown F, Bambra C. The macro-economic determinants of health and health inequalities - umbrella review protocol. Systematic Reviews 2017, 6, 222.
• Farrants K, Bambra C, Nylén L, Kasim A, Burström B, Hunter DJ. The recommodification of healthcare? A case study of user charges and inequalities in access to healthcare in Sweden 1980-2005. Health Policy 2017, 121(1), 42-49.
• Huijts T, Stornes P, Eikemo TA, Bambra C, The HiNews Consortium. The social and behavioural determinants of health in Europe: Findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health 2017, 27(Suppl. 1), 55-62.
• Balaj M, McNamara CL, Eikemo TA, Bambra C. The social determinants of inequalities in self-reported health in Europe: findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health 2017, 27(Suppl. 1), 107-114.
• McNamara CL, Balaj M, Thomson KH, Eikemo TA, Solheim EF, Bambra C. The socioeconomic distribution of non-communicable diseases in Europe: findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health 2017, 27(Suppl. 1), 22-26.
• Gibson M, Thomson H, Banas K, McKee M, Fenton C, Bambra C, Bond L. Welfare to work interventions and their effects on health and well-being of lone parents and their children [Review]. Cochrane Library 2017, (8), CD009820.
• Bambra C, Orton C. A train journey through the English health divide: topological map. Environment and Planning A 2016, 48(5), 811-814.
• Scott-Samuel A, Bambra C. A week is a long time in politics: the health implications of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party leadership victory. International Journal of Health Services 2016, 46(1), 141-148.
• Brown TJ, Todd A, O'Malley CL, Moore HJ, Husband AK, Bambra C, Kasim A, Sniehotta FF, Steed L, Summerbell CD. Community pharmacy interventions for public health priorities: a systematic review of community pharmacy-delivered smoking, alcohol and weight management interventions. Public Health Research 2016, 4(2), 1-155.
• Brown TJ, Todd A, O'Malley C, Moore HJ, Husband AK, Bambra C, Kasim A, Sniehotta FF, Steed L, Smith S, Nield L, Summerbell CD. Community pharmacy-delivered interventions for public health priorities: a systematic review of interventions for alcohol reduction, smoking cessation and weight management, including meta-analysis for smoking cessation. BMJ Open 2016, 6(2), e009828.
• Garthwaite K, Smith K, Bambra C, Pearce J. Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities: perspectives of UK researchers on past, present and future directions in health inequalities research. Sociology of Health and Illness 2016, 38(3), 459-478.
• Lake A, Warren J, Copeland A, Rushmer R, Bambra C. Developing virtual public health networks: aspiration and reality. Journal of Public Health 2016, 38(4), e446-e454.
• Bambra C. Health Divides: where you live can kill you. Bristol: Policy Press, 2016.
• Smith KE, Hill S, Bambra C, ed. Health Inequalities: Critical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Mattheys K, Bambra C, Warren J, Kasim A, Akhter N. Inequalities in mental health and well-being in a time of austerity: baseline findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study. SSM - Population Health 2016, 2, 350-359.
• Farrants K, Bambra C, Nylen L, Kasim A, Burstrom B, Hunter D. Recommodification, unemployment, and health inequalities: Trends in England and Sweden 1991-2011. International Journal of Health Services 2016, 46(2), 300-324.
• Beckfield J, Bambra C. Shorter Lives in Stingier States: Social Policy Shortcomings Help Explain the US Mortality Disadvantage. Social Science and Medicine 2016, 171, 30-38.
• Thomson K, Bambra C, McNamara C, Huijits T, Todd A. The effects of public health policies on population health and health inequalities in European welfare states: protocol for an umbrella review. Systematic Reviews 2016, 5, 57.
• Todd A, Copeland A, Husband A, Kasim A, Bambra C. Access all areas? An area-level analysis of accessibility to general practice and community pharmacy services in England by urbanity and social deprivation. BMJ Open 2015, 5(5), e007328.
• Copeland A, Bambra C, Nylén L, Kasim A, Riva M, Curtis S, Burström B. All in it together? The effects of recession on population health and health inequalities in England and Sweden, 1991 to 2010. International Journal of Health Services 2015, 45(1), 3-24.
• Beckfield J, Bambra C, Eikemo T, Huijts T, McNamara C, Wendt C. An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health. Social Theory & Health 2015, 13(3), 227-244.
• Bambra C, Garthwaite K. Austerity, welfare reform and the English health divide. Area 2015, 47(3), 341-343.
• Firth H, Todd A, Bambra C. Benefits and barriers to the public health pharmacy: a qualitative exploration of providers’ and commissioners’ perceptions of the Healthy Living Pharmacy Framework. Perspectives in Public Health 2015, 135(5), 251-256.
• Braun T, Bambra C, Booth M, Kasim A, Milne E. Better health at work? An evaluation of the effects and cost benefits of a structured workplace health improvement programme in reducing sickness absence. Journal of Public Health 2015, 37(1), 138-142.
• Garthwaite K, Collins P, Bambra C. Food for thought: an ethnographic study of negotiating ill health and food insecurity in a UK foodbank. Social Science & Medicine 2015, 132, 38-44.
• Cairns J, Warren J, Garthwaite K, Greig G, Bambra C. Go slow: an umbrella review of the effects of 20 mph zones and limits on health and health inequalities. Journal of Public Health 2015, 37(3), 515-520.
• Bambra C, Hillier F, Cairns J, Kasim A, Moore H, Summerbell C. How effective are interventions at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity among children and adults? Two systematic reviews. Public Health Research 2015, 3(1).
• Schrecker T, Bambra C. How Politics Makes Us Sick – Neoliberal Epidemics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• Van-der-Wel K, Bambra C, Dragano N, Eikemo T, Lunau T. Risk and resilience: health inequalities, working conditions and sickness benefit arrangements: analysis from the 2010 European Working Conditions survey. Sociology of Health & Illness 2015, 37(8), 1157-1172.
• O'Campo P, Molnar A, Ng E, Renahy E, Mitchell C, Shankardass K, John A, Bambra C, Muntaner C. Social welfare matters: a realist review of when, how, and why unemployment insurance impacts poverty and health. Social Science & Medicine 2015, 132, 88-94.
• Abbas S, Pollard T, Wynn P, Learmonth A, Joyce K, Bambra C. The effectiveness of using the workplace to identify and address modifiable health risk factors in deprived populations. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2015, 72(9), 664-669.
• Bambra C, Cairns J, Kasim A, Smith J, Robertson S, Copeland A, Johnson K. This divided land: an examination of regional inequalities in exposure to brownfield land and the association with morbidity and mortality in England. Health & Place 2015, 34, 257-269.
• Cairns J, Bambra C, Hillier-Brown F, Moore H, Summerbell C. Weighing up the evidence: a systematic review of the effectiveness of workplace interventions to tackle socio-economic inequalities in obesity. Journal of Public Health 2015, 37(4), 659-670.
• Dragano N, Lunau T, Eikemo T, Toch-Marquardt M, van der Wel K, Bambra C. Who knows the risk? A multilevel study of systematic variations in work-related safety knowledge in the European workforce. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2015, 72(8), 553-559.
• Lunau T, Bambra C, Eikemo T, van der Wel K, Dragano N. A balancing act? Work-life balance and health and wellbeing in European welfare states. European Journal of Public Health 2014, 24(3), 422-427.
• Hillier-Brown F, Bambra C, Cairns J, Kasim A, Moore H, Summerbell C. A systematic review of the effectiveness of individual, community and societal level interventions at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity amongst adults. International Journal of Obesity 2014, 38(12), 1483-1490.
• Hillier-Brown F, Bambra C, Cairns J, Kasim A, Moore H, Summerbell C. A systematic review of the effectiveness of individual, community and societal level interventions at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity amongst children. BMC Public Health 2014, 14, 834.
• Hillier F, Bambra C, Cairns J, Moore H, Kasim A, Summerbell C. A systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions to reduce socio-economic inequalities in obesity amongst adults. International Journal of Obesity 2014, 38, 1483-1490.
• Greig G, Garthwaite K, Bambra C. Addressing health inequalities: five practical approaches for local authorities. Perspectives in Public Health 2014, 134(3), 132-134.
• Warren J, Garthwaite K, Bambra C. After Atos Healthcare: is the Employment and Support Allowance fit for purpose and does the Work Capability Assessment have a future?. Disability & Society 2014, 29(8), 1319-1323.
• Toch M, Bambra C, Lunau T, Van-der-Wel K, Witvliet M, Dragano N, Eikemo T. All part of the job? The contribution of the psychosocial and physical work environment to health inequalities in Europe and the European health divide. International Journal of Health Services 2014, 44(2), 285-305.
• Bambra C, Garthwaite K, Hunter D. All things being equal: does it matter for equity how you organise and pay for health care? A review of the international evidence. International Journal of Health Services 2014, 44(3), 457-477.
• Warren J, Wistow J, Bambra C. Applying qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in public health: a case study of a health improvement service for long-term incapacity benefit recipients. Journal of Public Health 2014, 36(1), 126-133.
• Todd A, Moore H, Husband A, Bambra C, Kasim A, Sniehotta F, Steed L, Summerbell C. Community pharmacy interventions for public health priorities: protocol for a systematic review of community pharmacy-delivered smoking, alcohol and weight management interventions. Systematic Reviews 2014, 3, 93.
• Whitehead M, Bambra C, Barr B, Bowles J, Caulfield R, Doran T, Harrison D, Lynch A, Pleasant S, Weldon J. Due North: Report of the inquiry on health equity for the North. 2014.
• Copeland A, Kasim A, Bambra C. Grim up North or Northern grit? Recessions and the English spatial health divide (1991–2010). Journal of Public Health 2014, 1-6.
• Bambra C, Robertson S, Kasim A, Smith J, Cairns-Nagi JM, Copeland A, Finlay N, Johnson K. Healthy land? An examination of the area-level association between brownfield land and morbidity and mortality in England. Environment and Planning A 2014, 46(2), 433-454.
• Van de Velde S, Bambra C, Van der Brecht K, Eikemo TA, Bracke P. Keeping it in the family: the self-rated health of lone mothers in different European welfare regimes. Sociology of Health and Illness 2014, 36(8), 1220-1242.
• Bambra C, Barr B, Milne E. North and South: addressing the English health divide. Journal of Public Health 2014, 36(2), 183-186.
• Warren J, Bambra C, Kasim A, Garthwaite K, Mason J, Booth M. Prospective pilot evaluation of the effectiveness and cost-utility of a 'health first' case management service for long-term Incapacity Benefit recipients. Journal of Public Health 2014, 36(1), 117-125.
• Footman K, Garthwaite K, Bambra C, McKee M. Quality check: does it matter for quality how you organise and pay for health care? A review of the international evidence. International Journal of Health Services 2014, 44(3), 479-505.
• Garthwaite K, Bambra C, Warren J, Kasim A, Greig G. Shifting the goalposts: a longitudinal mixed-methods study of the health of long-term incapacity benefit recipients during a period of substantial change to the UK social security system. Journal of Social Policy 2014, 43(2), 311-330.
• Oliver E, Mawn L, Stain H, Bambra C, Torgerson C, Oliver A, Bridle C. Should we ‘hug a hoodie’? Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions with young people not in employment, education or training (so-called NEETs). Systematic Reviews 2014, 3, 73.
• Barr B, Bambra C, Whitehead M. The impact of NHS resource allocation policy on health inequalities in England 2001-2011: longitudinal ecological study. British Medical Journal 2014, 348, g3231.
• Scott-Samuel A, Bambra C, Collins C, Hunter D, McCartney G, Smith K. The impact of Thatcherism on health and well-being in Britain. International Journal of Health Services 2014, 44(1), 53-71.
• Todd A, Copeland A, Husband A, Kasim A, Bambra C. The positive pharmacy care law: an area-level analysis of the relationship between community pharmacy distribution, urbanity and social deprivation in England. BMJ Open 2014, 4(8), e005764.
• Bambra C, Lunau T, Eikemo T, van der Wel K, Dragano N. Work, health, and welfare: the association between working conditions, welfare states, and self-reported general health in Europe. International Journal of Health Services 2014, 44(1), 113-136.
• Warren J, Garthwaite K, Bambra C. ‘It was just nice to be able to talk to somebody’: long-term incapacity benefit recipients' experiences of a case management intervention. Journal of Public Health 2013, 35(4), 518-524.
• Warren J, Wistow J, Bambra C. Applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to evaluate a public health policy initiative in the North East of England. Policy & Society 2013, 32(4), 289–301.
• Popham F, Dibben C, Bambra C. Are health inequalities really not the smallest in the Nordic welfare states? A comparison of mortality inequality in 37 countries. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2013, 67(5), 412-418.
• Cairns-Nagi J, Bambra C. Defying the odds: a mixed-methods study of health resilience in deprived areas of England. Social Science & Medicine 2013, 91, 229-237.
• Bambra C, Copeland A. Deprived areas will lose out with proposed new capitation formula. BMJ 2013, 347.
• Bambra C. In defence of (social) democracy: on health inequalities and the welfare state. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2013, 67(9), 713-714.
• Van-de-Velde S, Huijts T, Bracke P, Bambra C. Macro-level gender equality and depression in men and women in Europe. Sociology of Health & Illness 2013, 35, 682-698.
• Bambra C, Hillier F, Moore H, Cairns-Nagi J, Summerbell C. Tackling inequalities in obesity: a protocol for a systematic review of the effectiveness of public health interventions at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity among adults. Systematic Reviews 2013, 2, 27.
• Robroek S, Reeuwijk K, Hillier F, Bambra C, van-Rijn R, Burdorf A. The contribution of overweight, obesity, and lack of physical activity to exit from paid employment: a meta-analysis. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 2013, 39(3), 233-240.
• Bambra C. The primacy of politics: the rise and fall of evidence-based public health policy?. Journal of Public Health 2013, 35(4), 486-487.
• Garthwaite K, Bambra C, Warren J. 'The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients. Disability & Society 2013, 28(8), 1104-1117.
• Bambra C. Allocation of NHS resources: Clear winners and losers are created by age only NHS resource allocation. British Medical Journal 2012, 344, e3593.
• Cairns JM, Curtis SE, Bambra C. Defying Deprivation: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Area Level Health Resilience in England. Health & Place 2012, 18(4), 928-933.
• Bambra C. Reducing health inequalities: New data suggests that the English strategy was partially successful (comments on Mackenbach 2011, 65: 568-575). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2012.
• Bambra C, Hillier F, Moore H, Summerbell C. Tackling inequalities in obesity: a protocol for a systematic review of the effectiveness of public health interventions at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity amongst children. Systematic Reviews 2012, 1, 16.
• Bambra C, Smith KE, Garthwaite K, Joyce KE, Hunter D. A labour of Sisyphus? Public policy and health inequalities in the UK from the Black Report to the Marmot Review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2011, 65(5), 399-406.
• Clayton S, Bambra C, Gosling R, Povall S, Misso K, Whitehead M. Assembling the evidence jigsaw: insights from a systematic review of UK studies of individual-focused return to work initiatives for disabled and long-term ill people. BMC Public Health 2011, 11(170).
• Riva M, Bambra C, Curtis S, Gauvin L. Collective resources or local social inequalities? Examining the social determinants of mental health in rural areas. European Journal of Public Health 2011, 21(2), 197-203.
• Riva M, Bambra C, Easton S, Curtis S. Hard times or good times? inequalities in the health effects of economic change. International Journal of Public Health 2011, 56(1), 3-5.
• Bambra C. Health inequalities and welfare state regimes: theoretical insights on a public health 'puzzle'. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2011, 65(9), 740-745.
• Gibson M, Petticrew M, Bambra C, Sowden A, Wright K, Whitehead M. Housing and health inequalities: a synthesis of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at different pathways linking housing and health. Health and place 2011, 17(1), 175-184.
• Bambra C. Lessons from the past: celebrating the 75th anniversary of Poverty and public health. Journal of Public Health 2011, 33(4), 475-476.
• Gabbay M, Taylor L, Sheppard L, Hillage J, Bambra C, Ford F, Preece R, Taske N, Kelly M. NICE guidance on long-term sickness and incapacity. British journal of general practice 2011, 61(584), e118-124.
• Bambra C. Real world reviews: a beginner’s guide to undertaking systematic reviews of public health policy interventions. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2011, 65(1), 14-19.
• Bambra C. Social inequalities in health: The Nordic welfare state in a comparative context. In: Kyist,J;Hvinden,B;Kangas,O, ed. Changing social equality: the Nordic welfare model in the 21st century. Bristol, Policy Press, 2011, pp.143-164.
• Gelormino E, Bambra C, Spadea T, Bellini S, Costa G. The effects of health care reforms on health inequalities: a review and analysis of the European evidence base. International journal of health services 2011, 41(2), 209-230.
• Gibson M, Banas K, Thompson H, Bambra C, Bond L, McKee M, Lutje V, Fenton C. Welfare to work interventions and their effects on health and wellbeing of lone parents and their children. Edinburgh: Chief Scientist's Office, 2011.
• Bambra C. Work, Worklessness and the Political Economy of Health. Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Bambra C. Work, worklessness and the political economy of health inequalities. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2011, 65(9), 746-750.
• Joyce KE, Smith KE, Sullivan C, Bambra C. ‘Most of industry's shutting down up here...’: Employability Initiatives to Tackle Worklessness in Areas of Low Labour Market Demand. Social Policy and Society 2010, 9(3), 337-353.
• Smith KE, Bambra C, Joyce KE. ‘Striking out’ Shifting labour markets, welfare to work policy and the renegotiation of gender performances. Critical Social Policy 2010, 30(1), 74-98.
• Joyce K, Bambra C. Determinants of health inequalities in developed countries. Social alternatives 2010, 29, 21-27.
• Bambra C. Doctors are key to welfare reform. British Medical Journal 2010, 341, c6029.
• Popham F, Bambra C. Evidence from the 2001 English Census on the contribution of employment status to the social gradient in self-rated health. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2010, 64(3), 277-280.
• Joyce K, Pabayo R, Critchley JA, Bambra C. Flexible working conditions and their effects on employee health and wellbeing. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, (2), CD008009.
• Joyce KE, Bambra C. Health Inequalities in Developed Nations. Social Alternatives 2010, 29, 21-27.
• Bambra C, Smith K. No longer deserving? sickness benefit reform and the politics of (ill) health. Critical Public Health 2010, 20(1), 71-83.
• Joyce KE, Smith KE, Henderson G, Greig G, Bambra C. Patient perspectives of Condition Management Programmes as a route to better health, wellbeing and employability. Family Practice 2010, 27, 101-109.
• Bambra C, Joyce KE, Bellis M, Greatley A, Greengross S, Hughes S, Lincoln P, Lobstein T, Naylor C, Salay R, Wiseman M, Goldblatt P, Maryon-Davis A. Reducing health inequalities in priority public health conditions: using rapid review to develop proposals for evidence-based policy. Journal of Public Health 2010, 32(4), 496-505.
• Joyce KE, Hall BJ, Armstrong R, Doyle J, Bambra C. Snakes and ladders: challenges and highlights of the first review published with the Cochrane Public Health Review Group. Journal of Public Health 2010, 33(2), 283-85.
• Bambra C, Gibson M, Sowden A, Wright K, Whitehead M, Petticrew M. Tackling the wider social determinants of health and health inequalities: evidence from systematic reviews. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2010, 64(4), 284-291.
• Bambra C, Netuveli G, Eikemo T. Welfare state regime life courses: the development of Western European welfare state regimes and age related patterns of educational inequalities in self-reported health. International journal of health services 2010, 40(3), 399-420.
• Karim S, Eikemo T, Bambra C. Welfare state regimes and population health: integrating the East Asian welfare states. Health Policy 2010, 94(1), 45-53.
• Perkins N, Smith K, Hunter DJ, Bambra C, Joyce KE. 'What Counts is What Works’? New Labour and Partnerships in Public Health. Policy and Politics 2010, 38(1), 101-117.
• Bambra C, Popham F. Worklessness and regional differences in the social gradient in general health: evidence from the 2001 English census. Health & Place 2010, 16(5), 1014-1021.
• Bambra C. Yesterday once more? unemployment and health in the 21st century. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2010, 64(3), 213-215.
• Bambra C. Changing the world? reflections on the interface between social science, epidemiology and public health. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2009, 63(11), 867-868.
• Bambra C, Pope D, Swani V, Stanistreet D, Roskam A, Kunst A, Scott-Samuel A. Gender, health inequalities and welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of thirteen European countries. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2009, 63(1), 38-44.
• Skalická V, Lenthe F, Bambra C, Krokstad S, Mackenbach J. Material, psychosocial, behavioural and biomedical factors in the explanation of socio-economic inequalities in mortality: evidence from the HUNT study. International Journal of Epidemiology 2009, 38(5), 1272-1284.
• Smith K, Bambra C, Joyce K, Perkins N, Hunter D, Blenkinsopp E. Partners in health? A systematic review of the impact of organizational partnerships on public health outcomes in England between 1997 and 2008. Journal of Public Health 2009, 31(2), 210-221.
• Egan M, Bambra C, Petticrew M, Whitehead M. Reviewing evidence on complex social interventions: appraising implementation in systematic reviews of the health effects of organisational-level workplace interventions. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2009, 63(1), 4-11.
• Bambra C. Welfare state regimes and the political economy of health. Humanity & Society 2009, 33(1-2), 99-117.
• Bambra C, Eikemo T. Welfare state regimes, unemployment and health: a comparative study of the relationship between unemployment and self-reported health in 23 European countries. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2009, 63(2), 92-98.
• Bambra C, Gibson M, Sowden A, Wright K, Whitehead M, Petticrew M. Working for health? Evidence from systematic reviews on the effects on health and health inequalities of organisational changes to the psychosocial work environment. Preventive Medicine 2009, 48(5), 454-461.
• Bambra C, Whitehead M, Sowden A, Akers J, Petticrew M. 'A hard day's night?' The effects of Compressed Working Week interventions on the health and work-life balance of shift workers: a systematic review. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2008, 62(9), 764-777.
• Eikemo T, Huisman M, Bambra C, Kunst A. Health inequalities according to educational level in different welfare regimes : a comparison of 23 European countries. Sociology of Health and Illness 2008, 30(4), 565-582.
• Bambra C. Incapacity Benefit reform and the politics of ill health. British Medical Journal 2008, 337, a1452.
• Bambra C, Smith K, Kennedy L. Politics and Health. In: Naidoo,J;Wills,J, ed. Health Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp.257-286.
• Bambra C, Whitehead M, Sowden A, Akers J, Petticrew M. Shifting schedules: the health effects of reorganizing shift work. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2008, 34(5), 427-434.
• Eikemo T, Bambra C. The welfare state: a glossary for public health. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2008, 62(1), 3-6.
• Eikemo T, Bambra C, Judge K, Ringdal K. Welfare state regimes and differences in self-perceived health in Europe: a multi-level analysis. Social Science & Medicine 2008, 66(11), 2281-2295.
• Eikemo T, Bambra C, Joyce KE, Dahl E. Welfare state regimes and income related health inequalities: a comparison of 23 European countries. The European Journal of Public Health 2008, 18(6), 593-599.
• Bambra C, Fox D, Scott-Samuel A. A politics of health glossary. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2007, 61(7), 571-574.
• Dahlberg L, Bambra C, Demack S. Age and gender of informal carers: a population-based study in the UK. Health and social care in the community 2007, 15(5), 439-445.
• Bambra C. Defamilisation and welfare state regimes: a cluster analysis. International Journal of Social Welfare 2007, 16(4), 326-338.
• Bambra C. Going beyond The three worlds of welfare capitalism: regime theory and public health research. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2007, 61(12), 1098-1102.
• Norman P, Bambra C. Incapacity or unemployment? the utility of an administrative data source as an updatable indicator of population health. Population, space and place 2007, 13(5), 333-352.
• Bambra C. 'Sifting the wheat from the chaff': a two-dimensional discriminant analysis of welfare state regime theory. Social Policy and Administration 2007, 41(1), 1-28.
• Egan M, Bambra C, Thomas S, Petticrew M, Whitehead M, Thompson H. The psychosocial and health effects of workplace reorganisation 1: a systematic review of interventions that aim to increase employee participation or control. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2007, 61(11), 945-954.
• Bambra C, Egan M, Thomas S, Petticrew M, Whitehead M. The psychosocial and health effects of workplace reorganisation 2: a systematic review of task restructuring interventions. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2007, 61(12), 1028-1037.
• Bambra C, Pope D. What are the effects of anti-discriminatory legislation on socio-economic inequalities in the employment consequences of ill health and disability?. Journal of epidemiology and community health 2007, 61(5), 421-426.
• Stanistreet D, Swami V, Pope D, Bambra C, Scott-Samuel A. Women's empowerment and violent death among women and men in Europe: an ecological study. The Journal of Men's Health & Gender 2007, 4(3), 257-265.
• Bambra C. Decommodification and the worlds of welfare revisited. Journal of European Social Policy 2006, 16(1), 73-80.
• Bambra C. Health status and the worlds of welfare. Social Policy and Society 2006, 5(1), 53-62.
• Bambra C, Fox D, Scott-Samuel A. Towards a politics of health. In: Douglas,J;Earle,A;Handsley,S;Lloyd,C;Spurr,S, ed. A Reader in Promoting Public Health: Challenge and Controversy. London: Sage, 2006, pp.48-54.
• Bambra C, Norman P. What is the association between sickness absence, mortality and morbidity?. Health & Place 2006, 12(4), 728-733.
• Bambra C. Cash versus services: 'worlds of welfare' and the decommodification of cash benefits and health care services. Journal of Social Policy 2005, 34(2), 195-213.
• Bambra C, Whitehead M, Hamilton V. Does 'welfare-to-work' work? A systematic review of the effectiveness of the UK's welfare-to-work programmes for people with a disability or chronic illness. Social Science & Medicine 2005, 60(9), 1905-1918.
• Pope D, Bambra C. Has the Disability Discrimination Act closed the employment gap?. Disability and Rehabilitation 2005, 27(20), 1261-1266.
• Stanistreet D, Bambra C, Scott-Samuel A. Is patriarchy the source of men's higher mortality?. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2005, 59(10), 873-876.
• Bambra C. Reviewing the evidence: reflections from experience. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice 2005, 1(2), 243-256.
• Bambra C, Fox D, Scott-Samuel A. Towards a politics of health. Health Promotion International 2005, 20(2), 187-193.
• Bambra C. Worlds of welfare and the health care discrepancy. Social Policy and Society 2005, 4(1), 31-41.
• Whitehead M, Petticrew M, Graham H, Macintyre S, Bambra C, Egan M. Evidence for public health policy on inequalities 2: Assembling the evidence jigsaw. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2004, 58(10), 817-821.
• Street A, Bambra C. Social policy: Health. In: Compton,H, ed. Handbook of Public Policy in Europe. London: Palgrave, 2004, pp.277-289.
• Bambra C. The worlds of welfare: illusory and gender blind?. Social Policy and Society 2004, 3(3), 201-211.
• Bambra C. Weathering the storm: convergence, divergence and the robustness of the "Worlds of welfare". The Social Policy Journal 2004, 3(3), 3-23.