Career
She was a commissioner for the York Fairness Commission and a commissioner for the Living Wage Commission. She is on the Steering Committee of the Alliance for Sustainability and Prosperity. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the United Kingdom Faculty of Public Health.
One programme of research focuses on the social determinants of health, including the influences of such factors as social class, income inequality, neighbourhood context and ethnic density on such varied outcomes as mortality and morbidity, teenage birth, obesity, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and health-related behaviours.
A second research agenda focuses on smoking in pregnancy. Its causal role in relation to behavioural problems in children and its psychosocial context.
