Programme Staff
Programme Staff
Prof Richard Ashcroft
Module lead, Human rights and public health
Department of Law
Prof Ashcroft is professor of bioethics and is co-director of the Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health. His research covers human rights theory, law and practice in bioethics policy, and ethical challenges in public health. His particular interest is biomedical research ethics: he is a member of the Ethics and Policy Advisory Committee of the UK Medical Research Council and director of the Appointing Authority for Phase I Ethics Committees.
Dr Liam Bourke
Module lead, Research dissertations
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Dr Bourke is a lecturer in public health research. His research covers clinical trials and evidence synthesis in complex interventions for chronic disease, with a particular interest in exercise and cancer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health and is a member of both the North London NHS Living with and beyond Cancer and the Cancer Research Implementation Board.
Dr Tim Brown
Module lead, Social determinants of health: ecological approaches
Department of Geography
Dr Brown is a lecturer in human geography in the School of Geography. His primary area of research interest lies with geographical analyses of contemporary and historical public health practice in the UK. He has also published on healthcare reform in the NHS as well as on aspects of global health governance. He is co-editor of the recently published Companion to health and medical geography (Wiley-Blackwell 2009) and is currently advisory editor on health geography for The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of health, illness, behavior, and society (forthcoming).
Dr Miran Epstein
Module lead, Globalisation and contemporary medical ethics
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Dr Epstein is a reader in medical ethics within. His research covers transplant ethics, end-of-life ethics, and human research ethics. His particular interest is the history of biomedical ethics, on which he is currently writing a book. He is a member of The Transplantation Society (TTS) and a London-based NHS research ethics committee.
Prof Trish Greenhalgh
Joint programmes director; module lead, Primary health care: theory and practice; module co-lead, Narrative medicine in clinical practice: patients, families and teams
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Prof Greenhalgh is professor of primary health care and co-director of the Global Health, Policy and Innovation Unit. Known as “one of the international stars of general practice”, she is the author of eight textbooks including Primary health care: theory and practice and How to read a paper: the basics of evidence-based medicine. She leads a research programme on new technologies in health care, cross-cultural health, and the personal dimension of health and illness (narrative-based medicine). She was programme director for the world’s first fully online MSc programme in primary health care from 1998 to 2010. In 2001, she received the Order of the British Empire for services to medicine.
Dr Sophie Harman
Module lead, Global politics of health
Department of Politics & International Relations
Dr Harman is senior lecturer in international public policy. Her research focuses on the political economy of governance with particular reference to the World Bank and health. Prior to joining QMUL she was senior lecturer in international politics at City University London. She has published several books with Routledge, most recently Global health governance (2012) and The World Bank and HIV/AIDS (2010).
Ms Sally Kerry
Module lead, Epidemiology and statistics
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Ms Kerry is a reader in medical statistics and senior statistician in the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit in the CPCPH. She previously worked at St George’s, University of London where she developed an interest in pragmatic trials in primary care and cluster randomised trials. She is particularly interested in making statistical ideas accessible to health researchers and has written a number of papers about cluster randomised trials in the BMJ. She has co-authored two books, Presenting medical statistics from proposal to publication with Janet Peacock and A practical guide to cluster randomised trials with Sandra Eldridge.
Dr John Launer
Module co-lead, Narrative medicine in clinical practice: patients, families and teams
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Launer is a doctor, family therapist, educator and writer. His main areas of interest include narrative-based medicine, and clinical supervision for doctors. He works at the Tavistock Clinic in London and the London Department of Postgraduate Medical Education (the London Deanery). He has published six books including Narrative-based primary care: a practical guide (Radcliffe) and How not to be a doctor, and other essays (Royal Society of Medicine Press).
Dr David McCoy
BSc coordinator and module lead, Health inequalities and social determinants of health
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Dr McCoy is senior clinical lecturer in social determinants of health and a consultant in public health medicine in inner North West London. He spent ten years working in South Africa and has published widely on a number of topics in international and global health.
Prof Allyson Pollock
Joint programmes director
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Prof Pollock is professor of public health research and policy and co-director of the Global Health, Policy and Innovation Unit. An internationally known scholar in public health medicine, she was recently described by The Lancet as one “of the UK’s leading public intellectuals in medicine”. Through her research she brings the wide range of public health disciplines – epidemiological, geographical, legal, economic, political – to bear on important issues in public health and health policy, and particularly in relation to how financing and policy impact on universal and equitable health care provision. Her research covers globalisation, marketisation and privatisation of public services, pharmaceuticals, and health inequalities. She has strong links to developing public health programmes in low and middle income countries.
Mr David Price
Module lead, Health systems, economics and policy
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Mr Price is a senior research fellow. He has been involved in research into public private partnerships for several years and has also published widely on the impact of international economic law on public health policy and on health care reform in the NHS. He has been a fellow at the Centre for International Public Health Policy, University of Edinburgh, and the Public Health Policy Unit, UCL.
Prof Maxine Robertson
Module lead, Managing innovation and change in health systems: policy and practice
Department of Business and Management
Prof Robertson is professor of innovation and organisation. Her research focuses on the interrelated areas of networked innovation, knowledge work, and professional identity. Most of her research is conducted within the biomedical sector, drawing upon the drug development process as a prime exemplar of networked innovation. She is a member of the UK National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence Implementation Strategy Group.
Mr Peter Roderick
Module lead, Public health, international law and governance
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Mr Roderick is a senior research fellow. He qualified as a barrister in 1982, and has since practised law across a wide range of subject areas, specialising in public interest environmental law. He wrote several legal analyses and briefings on the Health and Social Care Bill during its passage in 2011-12 through the UK Parliament, and is currently researching on patent and pharmaceutical law.
Dr Petra Sevcikova
MSc coordinator; module lead, Globalisation and health care reform
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Dr Sevcikova is a senior lecturer in health systems. She has been involved in research into the regulation of pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines in developing countries. She is also interested in the nonprofit sector research, especially on the co-existence of nonprofit and for-profit firms within an industry. Previously she held research and teaching positions at the University of Edinburgh.
Dr Sara Shaw
Module lead, Health illness and society; Patients, quality and safety
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Dr Shaw is senior lecturer in health policy research. Her research covers health policy and politics and the organisation and development of health and care services. Her particular interests lie in the way that health policy develops and becomes practice. Sara is also visiting senior fellow at the Nuffield Trust, an independent research organisation focused on health policy.
Dr Dianna Smith
Module lead, Migration, culture and health
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Dr Smith is a lecturer in health services research. Her background in geography and her research has an emphasis on modeling local population health outcomes for policy analysis and exploring social and spatial health inequalities. Prior to joining CPCPH she was a MRC Population Health Scientist research fellow in the Department of Geography at QMUL, and in Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London.
