Rate My Professor Brenda Hayanga

Dr. Brenda Hayanga is a Research Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy, at King’s College London. Her research examines how social, historical, and structural processes intersect with individual-level factors to shape health outcomes for minoritised ethnic people. With expertise in systematic reviews and quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research framed by intersectionality and life course theory, her work centers on ethnic inequalities in health, including multiple long-term conditions, ageing, social isolation, and loneliness. Public involvement and engagement are integral to her projects, prioritizing the voices of those affected.

Hayanga earned her PhD from University College London with an ESRC-funded thesis entitled ‘The effectiveness and suitability of interventions for social isolation and loneliness for older people from minoritised ethnic groups living in the UK’, employing mixed methods to delineate principles of effective community-based group interventions. Subsequently, as a postdoctoral research fellow on a Health Foundation-funded project, she investigated ethnic inequalities in healthcare for people with multiple long-term conditions using primary care records and survey data. She currently leads as Principal Investigator a Wellcome Trust-funded study on the lived experiences of minoritised ethnic individuals with multiple long-term conditions. In 2021, she was honored with the Campbell Collaboration Farah Jamal Award for her innovative research on health inequalities. Her influential publications include: ‘Ethnic inequalities in multiple long-term health conditions in the United Kingdom: a systematic review and narrative synthesis’ (BMC Public Health, 2023); ‘Ethnic inequalities in age-related patterns of multiple long-term conditions’ (Sociology of Health & Illness, 2024); ‘Continuity of care in diverse ethnic groups: a general practice record study in England’ (British Journal of General Practice, 2023); and ‘Ethnic Inequities in the Patterns of Personalized Care Received by People with Multimorbidity in England’ (Journal of Public Health, 2023).