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Andrew Guise

Dr Andrew Guise

Senior lecturer in Social Science and Health

Research interests

  • Biomedical and life sciences

Biography

Andy researches and teaches on health inequalities and urban exclusion. His research addresses the health needs and experiences of people who are homeless and using drugs, and the potential for health service and public health responses. Specific areas of work include understanding the impacts of peer and community led initiatives, as well as how stigma and other social factors shape people’s health.

Andy currently holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. This programme of work is developing a complex systems approach to stigma and discrimination.

Prior to joining King’s College London he completed his PhD and post-doctoral work at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California San Diego.

    Research

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    Social science and Urban public health institute

    Working with collaborators around the theme of urban public health

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    Health Inequalities, Societies and Systems

    Central to our research is understanding and tackling the systemic and intersecting drivers of disparities in health over the life course such as racism, gender, crime, precarious livelihoods, environmental pollution, and inaccessible health care. We work collaboratively across the School of Life Course and Population Sciences to strengthen the theoretical aspects of population health research.

    hospital-news
    Social Responses to Stigma

    Social Responses to Stigma is exploring new ways of trying to tackle stigma as it relates to homelessness.

    News

    Stigma stopping evidence-based response to drug overdoses in UK

    A new analysis in the BMJ argues that UK government opposition to drug consumption rooms is rooted in societal stigma

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    King's researcher awarded UKRI Fellowship to tackle major health inequalities for people who are homeless

    Dr Andy Guise has been selected as one of UKRI’s Future Leaders and will receive significant support to develop a new response to the social stigma that leads...

    andrew guise

    Features

    Homeless people were social distancing long before Covid – and it may have saved lives

    A study has found loneliness and exclusion might have played a role in preventing people from contracting Covid

    Homelessness

    The Poor Laws 2.0

    Reaching back for lessons from history is increasingly common to make sense of society.

    Four students walking

      Research

      suphi-hero-1
      Social science and Urban public health institute

      Working with collaborators around the theme of urban public health

      public health inequality mask 780x440
      Health Inequalities, Societies and Systems

      Central to our research is understanding and tackling the systemic and intersecting drivers of disparities in health over the life course such as racism, gender, crime, precarious livelihoods, environmental pollution, and inaccessible health care. We work collaboratively across the School of Life Course and Population Sciences to strengthen the theoretical aspects of population health research.

      hospital-news
      Social Responses to Stigma

      Social Responses to Stigma is exploring new ways of trying to tackle stigma as it relates to homelessness.

      News

      Stigma stopping evidence-based response to drug overdoses in UK

      A new analysis in the BMJ argues that UK government opposition to drug consumption rooms is rooted in societal stigma

      Parliament780x440

      King's researcher awarded UKRI Fellowship to tackle major health inequalities for people who are homeless

      Dr Andy Guise has been selected as one of UKRI’s Future Leaders and will receive significant support to develop a new response to the social stigma that leads...

      andrew guise

      Features

      Homeless people were social distancing long before Covid – and it may have saved lives

      A study has found loneliness and exclusion might have played a role in preventing people from contracting Covid

      Homelessness

      The Poor Laws 2.0

      Reaching back for lessons from history is increasingly common to make sense of society.

      Four students walking