Professor Simon Szreter

Professor of History and Public Policy at Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

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Professor of History and Public Policy, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

Dr Simon Szreter is Research Professor of History and Public Policy in the History Faculty, Life Fellow of St John's College, an honorary associate of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and Research, and Director with Kevin Schurer of the philanthropically-funded 3-year project, New Frontiers in Demographic History and Public Health. He was co-founder in 2002 of History&Policy and is the Editorial Director of its website, www.historyandpolicy.org. He researches aspects of economic, social, demographic and public policy history in the period c.1600-2025 and has published many books, including Fertility, Class and Gender, Health and Wealth, Registration and Recognition, Sex before the Sexual Revolution, The Hidden Affliction, and After the Virus.

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Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

Professor of History and Public Policy

History & Policy

Co-Founder / Editorial Director of the H&P Policy Paper programme

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    What can History tell us about current health inequalities?

    Professor Szreter used historical cases in Britain to demonstrate how the nature and scale of health inequalities within a society are produced by the social and cultural environment of values and incentives experienced by the rich, as much as by the poor (who are the usual focus of attention).