Tackling inequality through data: the professor of primary care
Professor of primary care and public health Azeem Majeed talks to Carla Delgado about his passion for tackling health inequalities through data As a medical student, Azeem Majeed didn’t think he would end up becoming a professor. “That would never have occurred to me at that time,” he says. Now he is a professor and the head of the department of primary care and public health at Imperial College London. He says he found a desire to tackle the wider social determinants of health early on in his clinical career, after seeing health problems that were rooted in deprivation and occupational hazards. “That made me realise that, while medicine is important, there are important things beyond medicine—such as poverty, housing, and occupation,” he says. “That drove my interest in public health.” Majeed developed his research skills during an outbreak of hepatitis A in Gloucester where he worked …
