Contact Details:
Dr Alex Scott-Samuel, Division of Public Health, Whelan Building, University of Liverpool L69 3GB alexss@liv.ac.uk

Background

I qualified in medicine at the University of Liverpool in 1971, and took my Masters in Community Health in 1976.

From 1978-94 I was consultant in Public Health with Liverpool Health Authority. Since 1994 I've been Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Division of Public Health at the University of Liverpool, where I direct IMPACT (the International Health Impact Asessment Consortium); Liverpool Public Health Observatory and EQUAL (the Equity in Health Research and Development Unit). My chief research interests are in health impact assessment, health politics and policy, and health inequalities. I lead the health promotion module on the Liverpool MPH course.

From 1979-85 I was founding editor of the journal Radical Community Medicine (now Critical Public Health). Together with Peter Draper, I established the Public Health Alliance (now the UK Public Health Association) in 1986. In 2003, I was a co-founder of the Politics of Health Group. I am Vice Chair of the Pioneer Health Foundation (founders of the Peckham Experiment).

I am married with two daughters, enjoy singing in a choir and being part of a men's book group and a poetry discussion group.