Using evidence to end homelessness

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Health Foundation. Jo is responsible for developing and leading the Foundation's Healthy Lives strategy to address the wider social and commercial determinants of health. Joining the foundation in November 2007, Jo initially led the development of the foundation's influential portfolio of work in patient safety and personcentred care. Jo has worked in healthcare at local and national level for 25 years, including ten years at the Department of Health. As Head of NHS Performance, she oversaw the implementation of the policy agenda set out in the NHS Plan. At the NHS Modernisation Agency, Jo led an international quality improvement initiative -Pursuing Perfection. Bob Blackman is the Conservative MP for Harrow East and serves as Joint Secretary of the prestigious 1922 Committee within Parliament. He was elected London Assembly Member for Brent and Harrow in 2004 and was a member of Brent Council for nearly 24 years. During that time, he led the Conservative Group for 20 years and the Council for 5 years. Since being elected as MP for Harrow East in 2010 Bob has Notes on contributors ix Dennis Culhane is Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy and Co-Principal Investigator, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Culhane is a social science researcher with primary expertise in the area of homelessness and assisted housing policy. His work has contributed to efforts to address the housing and support needs of people experiencing housing emergencies and long-term homelessness. Most recently, Culhane's research has focused on using linked administrative data to gain a better understanding about the service utilisation patterns of vulnerable populations, including youth exiting foster care and/or juvenile justice, as well as the individuals aged 55 and older who are experiencing homelessness. Culhane's research also focuses on homelessness among veterans. From July 2009 to June 2018 he served as Director of Research at the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans, an initiative of the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Culhane also co-directs Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP), an initiative that promotes the development, use and innovation of integrated data systems by states and localities for policy analysis and systems reform. Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. He was previously a professor of geography at the University of Sheffield. He has also worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand, went to university in Newcastle upon Tyne and to school in Oxford. He has published, with many colleagues, more than a dozen books on issues related to social inequalities in Britain and several hundred journal papers. Much of this work is available open access. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education and poverty. He is an academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, was Honorary President of the Society of Ca...