LISS DTP1

Pathway 3: Health, Biopolitics & Social Inequality (HBSI)

Pathway Leads

KCL – Seeromanie Harding seeromanie.harding@kcl.ac.uk 

QMUL – Oyinlola Oyebode o.oyebode@qmul.ac.uk 

ICL – Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin m.jarvelin@imperial.ac.uk 

Pathway Mailing List

liss-hbsi@qmlists.qmul.ac.uk  

Research Area:

Health, Well-Being & Social Inclusion

Pathway 1: Health Practices, Innovation & Implementation

Pathway 2: Life Course, Psychology & Health

Pathway 3: Health, Biopolitics & Social Inequality

Students in this thematic pathway will be part of internationally renowned communities for research on the social, geographical and bio-ethical dimensions of health across both King’s and Queen Mary. Research within this thematic pathway draws on research groups and expertise (including bioethicists, geographers, medical anthropologists, political scientists and sociologists. A defining feature of the pathway’s training will be to provide frameworks seeking social science explanations based on robust evidence with a view to informing ethically defensible social change and/or policy interventions that address harmful health inequalities and further the interests of public health at national, international and global levels in a context of changing biomedical technologies and interventions.

There are four training sub-pathways:

A. Ageing, Social Policy & Inequality

focuses on understanding the macro-social and political dimensions of ageing societies, how ageing is experienced by communities and populations, and policy formulation for an ageing world.

King’s College London
MSc Gerontology & Ageing

B. Biopolitics & Global Health

identifies qualitative and quantitative aspects of global health priorities, the key drivers of global health inequalities, together with the politics, practices and ethics of the global health movement and security.

King’s College London
MSc Global Health & Social Justice
MSc Bioethics & Society
MSc Global Health, Social Justice and Public Policy

Queen Mary University of London
MRes Global Public Health & Policy
MRes Global Health Geographies

C. Medicine, Health & Public Policy

Focuses on understanding how changes in biomedicine (such as pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, neuroscience etc.) affect health outcomes and public policy, and how governance and policy priorities shape medicine and health.

King’s College London
MSc Medicine, Health & Public Policy

Queen Mary University of London
MRes Global Health, Law & Governance

D. Social Determinants, Health & Justice

analyses the relationships between social conditions, political and economic power, and capabilities for health within evaluative frameworks of ethics and justice.

King’s College London
MSc Bioethics & Society

Queen Mary University of London
MRes Global Public Health & Policy
MRes Global Health Systems Theory & Policy

Pathway students