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Notes on contributors
Humayun Ahmed is a Research Assistant in Health Policy and an MSc candidate in the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests involve international health policy, genetics and epidemiology. He is also engaged in compliance research, teaching and education entrepreneurship.
Judith Allsop is a Visiting Professor in the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Lincoln and Professor Emerita at London South Bank University, UK. Drawing on the disciplines of both social policy and the sociology of health and illness, she has researched and published books and articles on health policy, complaints and user involvement in health care settings and the regulation of health professionals. A third edition of a jointly edited book with Mike Saks on Researching Health: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods (2019) is in progress. She has served on a number of UK government committees and local health management boards.
Joana Almeida is a sociologist with research interests in the sociology of health, illness and the professions. She is Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at the University of Bedfordshire, having previously been a Teaching Fellow in Sociology in the School of Law at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She recently held a Postdoctoral Research Fellow funded by the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Health and Social Science and Medicine.
Nelson Barros is a social scientist with research interests in the sociology of health, illness and care. He is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Campinas, Brazil. He is the long-term coordinator of the Brazilian Laboratory for Alternative, Complementary and Integrative Health Practices (LAPACIS). He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Leeds (2006-08) and at the University of London (2017), UK. He has published extensively in academic journals and edited books and is the author of various books on qualitative health research.
Marie Bismark is a public health physician, health lawyer and company director. She works in the Law and Public Health Unit at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Australia. She previously served as a legal adviser to the New Zealand Health and Disability Commissioner and completed a Harkness Fellowship in Healthcare Policy at Harvard University, United States. Her research focuses on the role of clinical governance, regulation and patient complaints in improving the quality and safety of health care.
Adalsteinn Brown is the Interim Dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Dalla Lana Chair of Public Health Policy at the University of Toronto, Canada. Previously he was the head of strategy and policy for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and for science and research at the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. His public service and academic career has focused heavily around issues of quality improvement and evidence use. He is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities.
Patrick Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research explores trust, risk, hope and related social processes by which individuals, professional groups and organisations cope amid uncertainty, especially in health care contexts. His recent books include Trusting on the Edge (2012) with Michael Calnan, Making Health Policy: A Critical Introduction (2012) with Andy Alaszewski, and the edited volume Theories of Uncertainty and Risk across Different Modernities (2018). His immersion within Amsterdam sociology has led to a growing interest in Eliasian analyses.
Michael Calnan is a Professor of Medical Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent, UK. He is a medical sociologist and has researched and published extensively on a wide range of health-related topics. His books include Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas (2000), Work Stress: The Making of a Modern Epidemic (2002), Trust Matters in Health Care (2008), The New Sociology of the Health Service (2009) and Trusting on the Edge (2012). His current research includes a sociological study of the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
John Martyn Chamberlain is Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at Swansea University. His concerns with governance and regulation are multidisciplinary, covering socio-legal studies, philosophy, ethics, statistics and machine learning. His books include Doctoring Medical Governance: Medical Self-Regulation in Transition (2009), Medical Regulation: An Introduction
