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Margaret Whitehead
British public health official
Dame Margaret McRae Whitehead DBE (born 28 September 1948) holds the W.H. Duncan chair in Public Health at the University of Liverpool.[1] She heads the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Policy Research on the Social Determinants of Health.[2]
Whitehead has published extensively on the effects of social equality on health and also the social consequences of chronic ill health.[3] She has advised on government policy[4] and has written reports for the WHO on tackling inequalities in health.[5]
She is also an associate editor for the Cochrane Public Health Review Group since 2008 and has a visiting Professorship at the Karolinska Institute.[6]