Maurice Bloch Lecture: Equity, intervention, and opportunity: what can we do?
Published: 24 September 2025
Wednesday 29 October, 1-2pm, Clarice Pears Building
Title: Equity, intervention, and opportunity: what can we do?
Date: Wednesday, 29 October 2025
Time: 1-2pm, tea and coffee will be served from 12.30pm
Presenter: Professor Carl May
Chair: Professor Frances Mair
Venue: Clarice Pears room 103A, if you cannot attend in person please join online using this zoom link to join:
https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/85404496046pwd=TEFtcGwvSjg1NmVqOFYyUkcyQk9idz09
meeting ID 854 0449 6046 passcode 718380
Abstract: Health services and Implementation researchers have repeatedly emphasised the need to address inequities in the organisation and delivery of care. In this lecture, I will start by exploring some of the causal mechanisms that produce and reproduce inequities within health services. My starting point is that while funding is always a problem, inequities and disparities are so much more than a problem of resource allocation. From this point of departure, I will describe the development of a person-centred and justice-informed approach to intervention and service design. This draws on sociological, public health, and implementation science perspectives to create a determinant framework of factors promote the generation of modifiable inequities within health services. From that framework is derived a set of generative principles, and a set of critical questions, that can help us reshape complex healthcare interventions and innovations in service delivery, and that is ultimately concerned with restitution. These have been translated into content for a patient-centred and justice-oriented appraisal tool to support the equitable design and evaluation of healthcare interventions and services.
First published: 24 September 2025
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