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Jennie Popay has been Professor of Sociology and Public Health at the Institute for Health Research at Lancaster University since January 2002. She was previously at the Nuffield Institute, University of Leeds , the University of Salford and the Institute of Education, London University. Jennie was born in Salford in the North West of England. She spent five years teaching in East Africa before beginning her research career at the Unit for the Study of Health Policy at Guy's Hospital in London . She has worked as a sociologist in the public health field ever since. Her research interests include social and gender inequalities in health, the sociology of knowledge, public/community empowerment, the evaluation of complex social interventions and methods for the synthesis of diverse evidence sources. Jennie is the co-ordinator of the Global Social Exclusion Knowledge Network (SEKN) set up to support the work of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) and with Margaret Whitehead at Liverpool University she established the NICE National Public Health Collaborating Centre on Community Engagement. She has been involved with NICE in the development of national guidance on community engagement and on behaviour change. She has held several public appointments including Commissioner with the National Commission on Health Improvement and Vice Chair of the National Commission on Patient and Public Involvement in Health.
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