UCL Health and Society Summer School: Social Determinants of Health

UCL Main Entrance

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the July 2024 programme will is no longer going ahead as planned. Further details will be posted here in due course.

The summer school is organised annually by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. It provides an in-depth assessment of the social determinants of health from a global research, policy and governance perspective. Participants will have numerous opportunities for discussion and networking over the one week course. Professor Sir Michael Marmot will open the summer school with a presentation on the social determinants of health and close the week with a discussion on national and international policy development

Topics covered

  • Social determinants of health
  • Social stratification
  • Right to health
  • Early child development
  • Life course epidemiology
  • Mental health
  • Health equity & sustainable development
     
  • Disability, inequality and human rights
  • Social, economic, and political change and health
  • Tackling health inequalities
  • Policy & practice in public health
  • Global governance and health policy