“We are currently undertaking research to try to better understand these causes, how they contribute to disparities in real-world clinical practice and whether strategies designed to address them are actually effective,” Thompson and Stathi write.
Trevor Thompson and Sofia Stathi
Trevor Thompson is an associate professor of Clinical Research and has worked in the Centre for Chronic Illness and Aging at the University of Greenwich since 2008. He is an active researcher in the area of health, with a particular interest in pain management and has published numerous articles in scientific journals including the BMJ, JAMA Psychiatry and the Lancet Psychiatry. He specializes in teaching statistics and has provided statistical consultancy to the pharmaceutical industry, the UK government and charitable bodies such as the NSPCC on network meta-analysis, structural equation modeling, and log-linear modeling. Sofia Stathi is a professor of Social Psychology in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Greenwich, where she leads the Centre for Inequalities. Stathi obtained a BSc in Psychology from the University of Crete, Greece, and then a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK. She joined the University of Greenwich as Senior Lecturer in 2011. Prior to this, Stathi was a post-doctoral researcher and then a lecturer at the University of Kent. Her research explores intergroup relations, social ideologies, and collective action.