CHAIN – The Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research
CHAIN is the Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research, which brings together researchers from all global regions and diverse research disciplines to advance the current state of the art. It does this by offering new insights from social, laboratory-based and natural experiments into the causal mechanisms linking socioeconomic status and health. It brings together academia, the UN system, civil society and the private sector in a common organisational body to reduce the distance between research, policy and practice.
EuroHealthNet works closely with CHAIN to advance research and policies in the field of health inequalities in Europe and beyond.
Collaboration to analyse social inequalities in health
EuroHealthNet and CHAIN are collaborating on a major report analysing and identifying trends in health inequalities in Europe. The report will be published in September 2025.
The CHAIN project (2019-2025)
EuroHealthNet was a partner in CHAIN’s Global Health Inequalities project (2019-2025), which made CHAIN a world-leading centre and research network for the international study of global health inequalities. The project was launched in April 2019 with a consortium meeting and a press release.
CHAIN’s final report summarises the project’s research outputs, activities, and progress throughout the project.
Resources
Study and factsheet: Research on the COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities shows: We are not all in it together (2020)
Study and factsheet: Parental education and inequalities in child mortality - A global systematic review and meta-analysis (2021)
Study and factsheet: Education as protection against adult mortality - A global systemic review and meta-analysis (2024)
Diving into the world of data: Developments in global health inequalities research (Recording World Leadership Dialogue during the 2020 World Conference on Public Health)
Leaving no one behind (Recording of webinar during European Public Health Week 2021)
UNESCO Chair Webinar on Health Inequalities and COVID-19 (Recording available, 2020)
Annual reports
Other EuroHealthNet projects
Visit our project page to read more about projects that EuroHealthNet is involved in.
