MS SARAH CHAMPAGNE

Biography

Sarah Champagne is a public health and health policy researcher at the University of Aberdeen. Her research examines how structural causes of health inequalities become understood and acted upon as public health problems, with particular interests in material insecurity, policy framing and implementation. Her PhD in Public Health examines food, fuel and financial insecurity and health among older adults in Scotland, integrating population-level analysis with interpretive policy research and qualitative research with policy, practice and lived-experience participants.

Before beginning her PhD, Sarah worked at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on international research spanning road safety, health systems and policy implementation. Her research uses qualitative, mixed-methods and evidence-synthesis approaches to understand how social and material conditions shape health, how responsibility for addressing them is defined, and how evidence and policy ambitions translate into action.

Research Overview

I am an applied public health and health policy researcher completing a PhD on food and fuel insecurity and health inequalities. I have over seven years of experience in qualitative, mixed-methods and evidence-synthesis research, with expertise in interpretive policy analysis, policy framing, implementation research and research with local authorities, civil-society organisations and people with lived experience. 

Current Research

My PhD thesis is titled Multidimensional Poverty and Health in Scotland: The Intersection of Food and Fuel Insecurity and it is a mixed-methods programme examining how food, fuel and financial insecurity shape diet, health, service navigation and vulnerability in later life.