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Hannah  Cowan

Dr Hannah Cowan

Research Associate

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Biography

Hannah Cowan is a medical anthropologist funded by the Biomedical Research Centre to understand the impact of health research on society. She is interested in activism, social inequalities, and health and is passionate about bringing non-academic communities and researchers together to help shape research agendas and find everyday ways of resisting the reproduction of inequalities. She is currently working on a project entitled: Utopia Now! Imagining a better worlds with researchers and young people. This is an exploratory project using creative methods to compare how the future of medicine and healthcare is being imagined within university and research communities, with the futures the hopes and fears of young people in Lambeth and Southwark. Hannah has also completed a PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on the politics of the NHS. In this research, she critiques current debates on the privatisation of healthcare and suggests the hierarchical relations and knowledge practices ingrained in the NHS have always produced inequalities.

    Research

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    Health Inequalities, Societies and Systems

    Central to our research is understanding and tackling the systemic and intersecting drivers of disparities in health over the life course such as racism, gender, crime, precarious livelihoods, environmental pollution, and inaccessible health care. We work collaboratively across the School of Life Course and Population Sciences to strengthen the theoretical aspects of population health research.

    News

    The impact of COVID-19 on clinical research in the UK

    A new paper has examined how the global research response to the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted research.

    Doctor and patient

    Events

    26Jan

    We are the future: Involving young people in defining what it means to 'Make the world a better place'

    Seminar with Dr Hannah Cowan

    Please note: this event has passed.

    Features

    Utopia Now! Local young people set out their visions for the future

    King’s researchers help young people explore their hopes and fears for the future

    Futuristic streetscape by Utopia Now! competition winner Laura Hack

      Research

      public health inequality mask 780x440
      Health Inequalities, Societies and Systems

      Central to our research is understanding and tackling the systemic and intersecting drivers of disparities in health over the life course such as racism, gender, crime, precarious livelihoods, environmental pollution, and inaccessible health care. We work collaboratively across the School of Life Course and Population Sciences to strengthen the theoretical aspects of population health research.

      News

      The impact of COVID-19 on clinical research in the UK

      A new paper has examined how the global research response to the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted research.

      Doctor and patient

      Events

      26Jan

      We are the future: Involving young people in defining what it means to 'Make the world a better place'

      Seminar with Dr Hannah Cowan

      Please note: this event has passed.

      Features

      Utopia Now! Local young people set out their visions for the future

      King’s researchers help young people explore their hopes and fears for the future

      Futuristic streetscape by Utopia Now! competition winner Laura Hack