Clare Bambra is Professor of Public Health at Newcastle University and her research focuses on understanding and reducing health inequalities.
Clare is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; an Honorary Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health; and an NIHR Senior Investigator.
She leads a number of large research collaborations including a Wellcome Trust funded project examining the north south health divide.
She is a member of the NHS Advisory Committee on the Resource Allocation (ACRA). She was an independent expert witness on health inequalities for both the UK and Scottish public inquiries into Covid-19.
Clare is a founding co-Director of Health Equity North – a virtual institute focused on place-based solutions to the public health problems and health inequalities in the North of England. She also co-chairs the advisory group of the Prevention and Equity policy programme of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Internationally, Clare is a member of WHO Europe’s Scientific Advisory Group on Health Equity; a senior investigator in CHAIN: The Centre for Global Health Equity Analytics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology; an associate investigator in the Australian Centre for Research Excellence on Shaping Markets for Health Equity; and she co-chairs the international advisory group of the Infectious Disease Equity (InDiE) Consortium exploring how to reduce health inequities in access to infectious disease interventions in Africa.