Dr Jessica Allen Quoted in the Guardian

'Local Government faces cultural battle with clinicians over public health'

"...Dr Jessica Allen, deputy director of the Marmot Review team and an academic at University College London, said research revealed huge health inequalities across the UK. In some boroughs, the poorest residents were not only living shorter lives but were more incapacitated, some living up to 25 years with a chronic condition or disability. Taking public health into local government control represented a real opportunity to tackle inequalities, she said...."

The full article is available on the Guardian website.