The social medical specialty unit seeks to grasp the ways that during which social, political, cultural, and economic circumstances influence our possibilities for a healthy life. We tend to mix theory from the social sciences with rigorous epidemiologic strategies so we are able to illuminate the connections between social factors and health and use what we discover to enhance health among this broad frame we've a interest within the connections between social inequalities and health inequalities.

The unit has four aims. First, we tend to aim to provide data regarding the influence of social circumstances on health with a special stress on social inequalities in health. Second, we tend to aim to coach and mentor a replacement generation of students and practitioners World Health Organization have the capability to conduct rigorous analysis on the role of social factors in health. Third, we tend to aim to leverage what we tend to learn to enhance population health and scale back health inequalities domestically, nationally, and across international borders. Fourth we tend to look for to translate and disperse our work to policy manufacturers, thought leaders, media, and also the public and reinforce the message that social determinants of health at primary drivers of population health.

Our diary and associated social media sites are the first vehicles for our translation and dissemination efforts. The diary hosts synopses of our current analysis and up to date publications within the scientific literature, provides a calendar of forthcoming events, hosts AN archive of public use Info-graphics on social determinants of health, and streams Social Eysenck Personality Inventory Radio, a series of curated Spotify music streams. Our students are concerned in building the diary and in making the Info-graphics and music streams.

Anchored upstream from the additional proximal determinants of un wellness, analysis within the social medical specialty unit engages collaboratively with the opposite medical specialty unit within the Department, so the total cascade of influences on health from social conditions to biology will be understood. The social medical specialty unit builds on its connections with the parliamentarian Wood Johnson (RWJ) Health and Society students Program and also the Center for the Study of Social Inequalities and Health. The RWJ program facilitates knowledge domain collaborations between the biological and social sciences and has dramatically enlarged contacts between researchers at the postman faculty of Public Health and people elsewhere across multiple disciplines. Students enjoy shut ties to the Departments of social science and science and also the faculty of welfare work. the middle for Social Inequalities and Health provides a rigorous intellectual basis for the study of health inequalities and support for junior school inquisitive about this space, sponsors speakers, seminars, and events that highlight the importance of social inequalities for on the assembly of health inequalities, and keeps members current on vital problems through an active journal club.