Dr Sharon Friel BSc Hons (Strathclyde, UK), MSc (NUI, Galway), PhD (NUI, Galway) Current Position: Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 0721 F: +61 2 6125 0740 Email and Principal Research Fellow, and Director Global Health Equity Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Email

Research Interests

• Global health inequity
• Social determinants of health
• Food systems, food security and health inequity
• Urbanisation and health inequity
• Climate change and health inequity
• Obesity prevention

Selected Recent Publications

Friel S , Marmot M, McMichael AJ, Kjellstrom T, Vågerö D. Global health equity and climate stabilisation - need for a common agenda. The Lancet, 2008; 372: 1677-1683.

Marmot M, Friel S. Global health equity: evidence for action on the social determinants of health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2008; 62: 1095-1097.

Marmot M, Friel S , Bell R, Houweling AJ, Taylor S. Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health. The Lancet, 2008; 372: 1661-1669.

Lobstein T, Friel S , Dowler E. Food, fuel and NCDs. The Lancet, 2008; 372: 9639, 628.

Brunner EJ, Jones P, Friel S , Bartley M. Fish, human health and marine ecosystem health: policies in collision? International Journal of Epidemiology, 2008; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn157

McMichael AJ, Friel S , Corvolan C, Nyong T. Global environmental change and human health: Implications for health inequalities, social policy and the health professions. British Medical Journal 2008; 336:191-194.

Friel S , Chopra M, Satcher D. Unequal weight: equitable policy responses to the global obesity epidemic. British Medical Journal 2007; 335: 1241-1243.

Satcher D, Friel S , Bell R. (2007) Natural and Manmade Disasters and Mental Health. JAMA. 298(21):2540-2542

Burns C, Friel S . It is time to determine the cost of a healthy diet in Australia . Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2007; 31(4) 363-365.

Kjellstrom T, Friel S, Dixon J, Corvalan C, Rehfuess E, Campbell-Lendrum D, Gore F, Bartram J. Urban Environmental Health Hazards and Health Equity. Journal of Urban Health 2007; 84(1S) 86-97.

Dixon J, Omwega AM, Friel S, Burns C, Donati K, Carlisle R. The Health Equity Dimensions of Urban Food Systems. Journal of Urban Health 2007; 84(1S) 118-129.

Butler C, Friel S. Time to regenerate: ecosystems and health promotion. PLoS Medicine 2006; 3(10): e394.

Friel S, Walsh O, McCarthy D. Irony of a rich country: issues of financial access to and availability of healthy food in the Republic of Ireland . J. Epidemiol. Community Health 2006; 60;1013-1019.