Dr. Steve Cummins
Senior Lecturer and NIHR Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London
Public Health Inequalities
Steven, a geographer (BSc) with training in epidemiology (MSc) and public health (PhD), joined the department as MRC Special Fellow in 2003 after spending eight years at the MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow. In October 2007 he was appointed as Senior Lecturer and NIHR Fellow.
Steven has been Academic Visitor at The Pennsylvania State University (2004) and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Social Epidemiology & Population Health, University of Michigan (2005-06). He has served on the committee of the RGS-IBG Geography of Health Research Group and the BSA Sociology of Food Group and, at various times, has undertaken work as an ‘invited expert’ for the Food Standards Agency (2001), Department of Health (2005), IPPR Centre for Cities ‘Consumer City’ Peer Review Group (2007), Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada (2007) and the US National Cancer Institute (2007). He is a full committee member of the Society for Social Medicine (2006-2009) and an appointed member of the Food Standards Agency Social Science Research Committee (2008-11). In November 2007 he was awarded a Phillip Leverhulme Prize for his work on the socio-environmental determinants of health.