Dr Ann Marie Connolly was appointed to the role of Director of Health Equity and Impact in Public Health England in April 2013. Working from the Health and Wellbeing Directorate her role is to ensure that the new public health system is supported to address health inequalities and the determinants of those inequalities. She leads for the organisation on all aspects of health equity.
Originally trained as a GP, Dr Connolly has been working in public health for the past 25 years, most recently as a Director of Public Health in a London borough. Over her career she has held a variety of posts both within and outside of the UK. These include working for WHO EURO on Healthy Cities across Europe, research on HIV with the Medical Research Council of South Africa and embedding public health in the curriculum of a new medical school in Ireland.
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We hope our latest edition of Health Matters – on the subject of “Community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing” – will help you and other professionals by compiling key facts, figures and evidence of effective interventions. Placing communities at the heart of …
People living in the most deprived areas can expect to spend nearly 20 fewer years in good health compared with those in the least deprived areas. This fact is avoidable, unjust and summarises the scale of health inequality in England …
Reducing health inequalities is at the heart of public health and PHE’s priorities.
Reducing health inequalities means giving everyone the same opportunities to lead a healthy life, no matter where they live or who they are.
We know that the environment we live in has a huge impact on our health. But did you know the WHO estimates that 23% of global deaths are due to modifiable environmental factors?
In April 2013 local authorities took over public health responsibilities, welcoming the role and celebrating that public health was ‘coming home’. And indeed it was. Public health has never been just about health care nor is it just about public …
"When people are unemployed, people can just assume that they are unemployable, and that is not ever the case. We take people onto a work placement and they do deliver for us an element of work. We do want to …
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...with their communities on health inequalities. These documents can be taken, used and shared by any public health professional or local authority colleague looking to discuss health inequalities with their...
