Developing tools to analyse how social structures embed privilege and examining systemic advantages in policy to guide transformative approaches for reducing health inequities.
Persistent health inequities are sustained by social structures that institutionalise advantage. This presentation updates progress in unpacking how privilege operates within public policy, including conceptual and empirical advancements for critical, complexity-oriented evaluation and monitoring of structural determinants of health.
Ashley and her team will share emerging findings on how advantage is maintained through policy and discuss how this deeper understanding of ‘doing’ privilege can guide transformative approaches to reducing health inequities.
About the speaker
Ashley Schram is an Associate Professor at RegNet and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Centre for Health Equity. Her research advances theory and evidence on how societies govern power and resource distribution through policy and economic practices, exploring implications for social and health equity. Blending population health with policy studies, political economy, and sociology, she offers unique insights into the relationships between social structures and health outcomes. Her work covers investment policy and practice, social and commercial health determinants, and innovative policy evaluation. She actively engages with policymakers and international organizations to translate academic findings into policy change.
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