Miriam van den Berg

Miriam is a research fellow at Stretton Health Equity at the University of Adelaide. Her research interests focus on how unfair and indecent employment conditions affect health and wellbeing. Miriam also works as a public health consultant in Tasmania and has been a long-term advocate for action on the social determinants of health.

Miriam van den Berg's recent articles

Achieving health equity in Australia

Achieving health equity in Australia

The recently launched World Report on the Social Determinants of Health Equity, by the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2025), paints a stark picture of the differences in ill-health, poor well-being, disease and mortality within and between countries, that arise from unfair and avoidable social conditions.