Honorary Visiting Fellow
MBChb, DTM&H, Msc, PhD, FFPH, FRSPH, FHEA
Email: jf653@medschl.cam.ac.uk | Office: East Forvie Building | Google Scholar | ResearchGate
Background
John is an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge, a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Health Equity at Queen Mary University London and an Honorary Public Health Consultant at NHS England. He believes that through our joint efforts we can build fair, inclusive and equitable societies. He works at the interface between research and practice to promote social justice and address health inequalities.
Research Interests
John’s main research interest is interventions and policies that seek to promote health equity and reduce health inequalities. He has range of interests relating to equitable health, including so called “intervention-generated inequalities” in health care settings, local system-level interventions to address inequalities, health care workforce inequalities, national policies and strategies to address inequalities and how primary care can address health and health care inequalities.
Selected Publications
For complete list of publications, please see Google Scholar here or ResearchGate here.
Ford J, Sowden S, Olivera J, Bambra C, Gimson A, Aldridge R, Brayne C
Transforming health systems to reduce health inequalities
Future Healthc J Jun 2021, fhj.2021-0018; DOI: 10.7861/fhj.2021-0018 https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/futurehosp/early/2021/06/23/fhj.2021-0018
Siersbaek R, Ford J, Burke S, Cheallaigh CN, Thomas S
Contexts and mechanisms that promote access to healthcare for populations experiencing homelessness: a realist review
BMJ open 2021 11 (4), e043091
Parker R, Figures E, Paddison C, Matheson J, Blane D, Ford J
Inequalities in general practice remote consultations: a systematic review
BJGP Open 27 April 2021; BJGPO.2021.0040. DOI: 10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0040
Bambra C, Riordan R, Ford J, Matthews F
The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities
J Epidemiol Community Health, 2020 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2020-214401
Enwo OO, Player E, Steel N, Ford J
The impact of life events on later life: a latent class analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Journal of Public Health, 2020, DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa002
Ford J, Sim F, Mackie P
Health inequalities: the need for clarity in the confusion.
Public health 2019 Oct;175:A1-A2. DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2019.09.006
Ford J, Lenaghan E, Salter C, et al
Can goal-setting for patients with multimorbidity improve outcomes in primary care? Cluster randomised feasibility trial
BMJ Open 2019;9:e025332. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025332
Ford J, Jones A, Wong G, Clark A, Porter T, Steel N.
Access to primary care for socio-economically disadvantaged older people in rural areas: exploring realist theory using structural equation modelling in a linked dataset
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2018 18(1) DOI: 10.1186/s12874-018-0514-x
Ford J, Turley R, Porter T, Shakespeare T, Wong G, Jones A, Steel N.
Access to primary care for socio-economically disadvantaged older people in rural areas: a qualitative study
PLoS ONE 2018 13 (3) article no. e0193952
Ford J, Jones A, Wong G, Steel N.
Access to primary care for socioeconomically disadvantaged older people in rural areas: A realist review
BMJ Open 2016 6(5):e010652
Ford J, Jones A, Wong G, Clark A, Porter T, Shakespeare T et al.
Improving access to high-quality primary care for socioeconomically disadvantaged older people in rural areas: a mixed method study protocol
BMJ Open 2015;5:e009104
Ford J, Jones A, Wong G, Steel N.
Weekend opening in primary care: Analysis of the General Practice Patient Survey
British Journal of General Practice 2015 65, pp. e792-e798
Steel N, Ford J, Newton J, Davis A, Vos T, Naghavi M et al.
Mortality, causes of death, years of life lost, years lived with a disability, and disability-adjusted life years in the countries of the UK and 150 English Local Authority areas 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Lancet 2018, 392, pp1647-1661