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Laia Becares joined King’s College London in 2022, after working at the University of Sussex (2018-2022) and the University of Manchester (2010-2018), where she retains an Honorary position. She obtained her PhD in Social Epidemiology from University College London and a Master's in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health. As a quantitative social epidemiologist, Laia adopts an interdisciplinary approach in her work, collaborating with qualitative sociologists, psychiatrists, geographers, demographers, and epidemiologists. She serves as an editor for the journal 'Sociology of Health & Illness' and is part of the Academic Reference Group for the NHS Race and Health Observatory. Laia has been awarded several research fellowships, including an ESRC/MRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2010-2012), Hallsworth Research Fellowship (2012-2016), and ESRC Future Research Leader Fellowship (2012-2015). Her research focuses on the understanding of pathways through which discrimination and marginalization lead to inequities in health, with a specific emphasis on the accumulative effect of discrimination over individuals' lives. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator on a Nuffield-funded project examining ethnic inequalities in health.
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