Professor Andrew Cairns: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Director of the Duncan Laboratory for Insurance Data Science at Heriot-Watt University; Professor of Actuarial Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University
- Quoted on
- Health inequalities
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“This data revealed truly shocking levels of inequality in life expectancies between neighbourhoods, some just a few hundred metres apart.”
Where Professor Andrew Cairns has been quoted
- 'Truly shocking': 35-year healthy life gap exposed between Scottish neighbourhoodsheraldscotland.com · 30 Sept 2026
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