DrEdward Jegasothy
Senior Lecturer - Environmental Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health
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- Senior Lecturer - Environmental HealthFaculty of Medicine and Health
RESEARCH INTERESTs
- Health inequalities and the political economy of public health
- Tobacco taxation and use as a case study in harm concentration among disadvantaged populations
- Welfare policy and social determinants of health
- Critical approaches to epidemiological methods and causal inference
- The conceptualisation of socioeconomic disadvantage in population health research
- Environmental health and climate vulnerability as products of structural inequality
- Commercial determinants of health
- Burden of disease methodology and its limitations
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTNode Award - JegasothySydney Policy Lab1 Jan 2026People funded by this grant:
- Jegasothy E
- GRANTSocial policy and the root causes of health inequalitySydney Policy Lab1 Jan 2025People funded by this grant:
- Jegasothy E
- GRANTSocial Policy and the Root Causes of Health InequalitySydney Policy Lab1 Jan 2024People funded by this grant:
- Jegasothy E
- GRANTBushfire smoke exposure during pregnancy and epigenetic changes inoffspringNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Apr 2021People funded by this grant:
- Morgan G,
- Mattes J,
- Holliday E,
- Gibson P,
- Jegasothy E