Addressing Health Inequalities: How can the Marmot Reviews help us?
"We repeat: the problem is not poor ‘choices’; the problem is poverty.... The rhetoric of the “undeserving poor” as justification for...
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ghlectureseriessfg
Mar 20, 20211 min read
The role of journalism during COVID-19 with FT Healthcare Editor Sarah Neville
The GHLS concluded with a wonderful and insightful talk by Sarah Neville, a healthcare editor at the Financial Times. Ms. Neville's talk...
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sexualhealthsfghca
Mar 10, 20212 min read
The Cambridge Period Project - donating period products to the community
The Sexual and Reproductive Health Subcommittee’s campaign “The Cambridge Period Project” thats aims to tackle period poverty in...
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ghlectureseriessfg
Mar 9, 20212 min read
Can the pandemic & recession reduce our complacency about poverty and health?
Hearing the number 131,000 deaths, you may well think it’s the newest sad milestone in the Covid pandemic. But in our latest Global...
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povertyhealthsfghc
Mar 9, 20212 min read
Global inequalities in capability to adapt to climate change
What is climate change adaptation? According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, adaptation is “the actions that...
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sfgh-cambridge
Mar 8, 20212 min read
Training Updates
This year, we’ve started doing Cambridge-specific trainings thanks to our amazing training officer, Anna! The training sessions have...
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sexualhealthsfghca
Feb 28, 20213 min read
Rethinking contraceptive responsibility and male contraception
The Sexual and Reproductive Health Subcommittee has held their second discussion group this year, initiating a conversation about the...
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sexualhealthsfghca
Feb 28, 20212 min read
Sustainable Periods Workshop
Earlier in February, the Sexual and Reproductive Health Subcommittee (SFGH) collaborated with the Ethical Affairs Committee (Cambridge...
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povertyhealthsfghc
Feb 27, 20214 min read
Forests, poverty and health
The importance of understanding zoonotic diseases, infectious diseases that pass from animals to humans,social structures and pressures...
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povertyhealthsfghc
Feb 15, 20215 min read
Rich Grad, Poor Grad: A Degree Alone Won’t Make You Equal
Rich Grad, Poor Grad: A Degree Alone Won’t Make You Equal Imposter Syndrome or Structural Inequalities? The impact of class inequalities...
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sexualhealthsfghca
Feb 14, 20215 min read
How can more accurate maps help to end FGM? And how can you help to create more accurate maps?
The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was first introduced in 2003 by the UN in an effort to...
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Race and Health Subcommittee
Feb 9, 20212 min read
Why do BAME mothers die at higher rates?: Reflections from Race and Health's discussion group
Last Monday, the Race and Health subcommittee held its third discussion group of the academic year entitled, “Why mothers die: the racial...
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ghlectureseriessfg
Feb 7, 20212 min read
Friendship Bench with Dr Dixon Chibanda
In the first session of our Global Health Lecture Series, Dr Dixon Chibanda tackled the topical issue of Mental Health. Alleviating the...
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povertyhealthsfghc
Feb 5, 20212 min read
Cambridge Community Kitchen: providing nutritious food to the local community
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many socioeconomic problems in the UK to the fore. In a country with the sixth highest GDP in the...
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povertyhealthsfghc
Jan 24, 20215 min read
Vaccinating fairly in an unequal society: addressing health inequalities in the UK’s vaccine rollout
News last week that the UK has vaccinated more people than it has had confirmed cases of COVID-19 offered hope to many during a bleak...
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povertyhealthsfghc
Nov 19, 20204 min read
COVID-19 and Migrant Worker Communities
The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating to many countries and communities worldwide. However, it is unfortunate that it takes a...
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povertyhealthsfghc
Nov 14, 20206 min read
Obesity and Poverty: What's the link?
Since the 1980s, the UK has been experiencing an economic boom, but the wealth that has been amassed is far from evenly distributed [1]....
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povertyhealthsfghc
Nov 6, 20203 min read
Understanding Health: How Does Health Literacy Impact Health Inequalities?
Being able to access, understand, interpret, and apply health information to decisions about our health is a key capability that directly...
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povertyhealthsfghc
Oct 30, 20204 min read
Can access to green spaces reduce health inequalities?
With pre-existing relationships between deprivation and health inequalities, increasing the amount of green spaces can act as a buffer again
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sfgh-cambridge
Sep 27, 20201 min read
Blog coming soon!
Welcome to the SfGH Cambridge blog - where we'll post articles and updates on our work!
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