Alex Scott-Samuel

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Alex Scott-Samuel is a British retired lecturer in public health at the University of Liverpool, where he was the director of the International Health Impact Assessment Consortium. He is the chair of Wavertree Constituency Labour Party and has a seat on the Labour Party regional board for the northwest. He was the chair of the Socialist Health Association between 2017 and 2020 and is involved in the Keep Our NHS Public movement. [1]

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Career

Until his retirement in late 2015, Scott-Samuel was a senior lecturer in public health and policy at the University of Liverpool. [2] He has published on topics related to health impact assessment, health inequalities, gender inequality and the politics of health. [3] In 1979 he established a politics of health journal, which later became Critical Public Health . Later he established the UK Politics of Health Group. [4]

In 2014, he was the joint author of a paper published in the International Journal of Health Services which claimed that the policies of Margaret Thatcher's government had led to the "unnecessary and unjust premature death of many British citizens, together with a substantial and continuing burden of suffering and loss of well-being". [5] In 2015 he described Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England as the "cheerleader-in-chief for NHS privatisation". [6]

He supported the campaign to preserve the independence of Liverpool Women's Hospital, saying that the proposal to move it was part of the government plans to cut services and eventually privatise them. [7]

In 2017, he stood for election to the Momentum executive, and said that he was "an adviser to Labour's shadow health minister". At the 2017 Labour Party Conference, he proposed a motion on health policy on behalf of the Socialist Health Association calling for the reinstatement of the NHS "as per the NHS Bill (2016-17)". It was carried unanimously. [8]

Scott-Samuel submitted a motion of no confidence in former Labour MP Luciana Berger, which was subsequently withdrawn [9] after Tom Watson called for the Wavertree party to be suspended. [10]

Articles in The Economist and The Times as well as The Jewish Chronicle have called Scott-Samuel a conspiracy theorist. [11] [12] [13] Both Wes Streeting and Alex Sobel called for his expulsion from the Labour party on this basis. [14]

Personal life

According to the constituency party, Scott-Samuel is Jewish. [15]

Publications

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  2. ↑ "University of Liverpool Disassociates From Lecturer Who Shared Rothschild Conspiracy on Controversial Talk Show". The Algemeiner. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Alex Scott Samuel". Dimensions. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "Health inequities need global political solutions". University World News. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Legacy of Margaret Thatcher's reign is thousands of 'unjust' deaths of Britons, says study". The Express. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  6. ↑ Scott-Samuel, Alex (1 May 2015). "Simon Stevens—cheerleader-in-chief for NHS privatisation". British Medical Journal (opinion). Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "ECHO readers dismayed over plans to move Liverpool Women's Hospital". Liverpool Echo. 6 January 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  8. ↑ O'Sullivan, Tony (27 September 2017). "Historic moment as Labour Conference unanimously recommits to restoring an NHS for all". Keep Our NHS Public. London: Keep Our NHS Public. Archived from the original on 17 March 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020. An excellent motion was passed including a robust call for a defence of the NHS in England now and a move to reinstate it 'as per the NHS Bill (2016-17)'. Alex Scott-Samuel of the Socialist Health Association and Doctors For The NHS proposed 'Composite 8: The NHS' very movingly and the motion was seconded by Sue Richards of Islington CLP. Both are members of Keep Our NHS Public. The motion was carried unanimously.
  9. ↑ Harpin, Lee (18 February 2018). "Senior Wavertree CLP member in 'Nazi masters' attack on Luciana Berger". Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  10. ↑ "Formby denies Labour leadership is ignoring MPs on antisemitism". The Guardian. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
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