Section: Staff Profiles

Sarah Hill

Name
Dr Sarah Hill
Title
Lecturer in Global Public Health
Organisation
Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
2.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 3884
E-Mail
URL
http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/staff/sarah_hill
Sarah

Background information

Qualifications

MBChB, MPH, PhD (University of Otago)

FAFPHM (New Zealand)

Research interests

Sarah’s research interests center around health inequalities in relation to social position, including ethnicity and socioeconomic position, and health-related aspects of tobacco.She is interested in the relationships between policy, public health and inequalities, including intervention-related inequalities in health.

Teaching and Supervision

Sarah is a lecturer for the Global Public Health Unit, and is convenor for courses in Public Health and Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy. She is also the programme director for the undergraduate Bachelor of Medical Sciences with Honours in International Public Health Policy.

Previous experience

Sarah joined the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in February 2009 following completion of a Fulbright Scholarship with the Harvard School of Public Health. She has previously worked in a research, public health and medical capacity in New Zealand, West Africa and Glasgow.

Publications

  • Hill S, Sarfati D, Blakely T, Robson B, Purdie G, Dennett E, Cormack D, Dew K, Ayanian JZ, Kawachi I. Race/ethnicity and management of colon cancer in New Zealand: Do Indigenous patients get a worse deal?Cancer, in press 2010.
  • Hill S, Sarfati D, Blakely T, Robson B, Purdie G, Chen J, Dennett E, Cormack D, Dew K, McCreanor T, Kawachi I.Survival disparities in Indigenous and non-Indigenous New Zealanders with colon cancer: the role of patient comorbidity, treatment and health service factors. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2010; 64(2): 117-123.
  • Howie SRC, Hill S, Ebonyi A, Krishnan G, Njie O, Sanneh M, Jallow M, Stevens W, Taylor K, Weber MW, Collier Njai P,Tapgun M, Corrah T, Mulholland K, Peel D, Njie M, Hill PC, Adegbola RA. Meeting oxygen needs in Africa: an options analysis from the Gambia.Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2009; 87: 763-771.
  • Hill SE, Njie O, Sanneh M, Jallow M, Peel D, Njie M, Weber M, Hill PC, Adegbola RA, Howie SR. Oxygen for severe pneumonia in The Gambia, West Africa: a situational analysis. International Journal of TB and Lung Disease 2009; 13(5): 587-93.
  • Cunningham R, Sarfati D, Hill S, Dennett E, O’Donnell A. Colon cancer management in New Zealand: 1996–2003. New Zealand Medical Journal 2009; 122(1294): 51-60.
  • Sarfati D, Hill S, Blakely T, Robson B, Purdie G, Dennett E, Cormack D, Dew K. The effect of comorbidity on the use of adjuvant chemotherapy and survival from colon cancer: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Cancer 2009; 9: 116.
  • Hill S, ‘Socioeconomic inequalities in health’, book chapter in Dew K, Matheson A (eds) (2008) Understanding Health Inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand, Dunedin: Otago University Press
  • Cunningham R, Sarfati D, Hill S, Kenwright D. An Audit of the New Zealand Cancer Registry. New Zealand Medical Journal 2008; 121(1279): 46-56.
  • Howie SR, Hill SE, Peel D, Sanneh M, Njie M, Hill PC, Mulholland K, Adegbola RA. Beyond good intentions: lessons on equipment donation from an African hospital. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2008; 86(1): 52-6.
  • Hill SE, Blakely T, Kawachi I, Woodward A. Mortality among lifelong nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at home: cohort data and sensitivity analyses. American Journal of Epidemiology 2007:165(5):530-40.
  • Hill SE, Blakely TA, Fawcett JM, Howden-Chapman P. Could mainstream antismoking programmes increase inequalities in tobacco use? New Zealand data from 1981-1996. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2005;29:279-84.
  • Shaw C, Blakely T, Sarfati D, Fawcett J, Hill S. Varying evolution of the New Zealand lung cancer epidemic by ethnicity and socio-economic position (1981-1999). New Zealand Medical Journal 2005;118(1213).
  • Hill PC, Stevens W, Hill S, Bah J, Donkor SA, Jallow A, Leinhardt C. Risk factors for defaulting from tuberculosis treatment: a prospective cohort study of 301 cases in The Gambia. International Journal of TB & Lung Disease 2005;9(12):1349-54.
  • Hill SE, Blakely TA, Kawachi I, Woodward A. Mortality among “never smokers” living with smokers: two cohort studies, 1981-4 and 1996-9. British Medical Journal 2004:328:988-9.

This page was published on 8 February 2011


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