Staff Profile

Courtney McNamara is Lecturer of Public Health. She uses advanced quantitative and qualitative methods to address pressing public health policy problems and has written extensively on: the health impacts of international trade, the social determinants of health inequalities, and the links between COVID-19, labour markets, and health.

She currently leads a large research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. This project asks if trade shocks cause health to suffer and investigates which policies could help prevent any potential harms.

She is also an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research (CHAIN) in Trondheim, Norway, and Chair of the Trade and Health Forum within the American Public Health Association.

For the most up-to-date list of published work, please see my Google Scholar profile.

Courtney co-leads the module "Social Determinants of Health - Theories and Applications" and contributes to the module "Public Policy, Health, and Health Inequalities." She regularly supervises student projects, including those pursuing Master's degrees in Public Health and Pharmacy, as well as Bachelor's degrees in Biomedical Science and Psychology. Courtney also supervises PhD students in the areas of the political economy of health. She welcomes contact from prospective research degree candidates.

• Articles

  • Scheiring G, Serrano-Alarcon M, Moise A, McNamara C, Stuckler D. The Populist Backlash Against Globalization: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence. British Journal of Political Science 2024, 54(3).
  • McNamara C, Kotzias V, Bambra C, Labonté R, Stuckler D. Have COVID-19 Stimulus Packages Mitigated the Negative Health Impacts of Pandemic-Related Job Losses? A Systematic Review of Global Evidence from the First Year of the Pandemic. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services 2023, 53(3), 311-322.
  • Bingpong K, Thomson K, McNamara CL, Besnier E, Balaj M, Ahkter N, Bambra C, Todd A. The Gender Pain Gap: The gender gap in pain in 19 European countries. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2022, 50(2), 287-294.
  • McNamara CL, Toch-Marquardt M, Albani V, Eikemo TA, Bambra C. The contribution of employment and working conditions to occupational inequalities in non-communicable diseases in Europe. European Journal of Public Health 2021, 31(1), 181-185.
  • Beckfield J, Balaj M, McNamara CL, Huijts T, Bambra C, Eikemo TA. The health of European populations: introduction to the special supplement on the 2014 European Social Survey (ESS) rotating module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health 2017, 27(Suppl. 1), 3-7.
  • Beckfield J, Bambra C, Eikemo T, Huijts T, McNamara C, Wendt C. An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health. Social Theory & Health 2015, 13(3), 227-244.

• Reviews