Teaching staff
Dr Katherine Smith
Director Global Public Health Unit
Katherine Smith is interested in the relationships between public health evidence, policy and advocacy. Her research focuses on knowledge exchange, theories of policy change, analysing policies to reduce health inequalities, and corporate and third sector efforts to influence policy. More about her work can be found here.
She teaches on the following GPHU courses:
Dr Sarah Hill
Sarah Hill is interested in the relationships between policy, public health and inequalities, including intervention-related inequalities in health. More about her work can be found here.
She teaches on the following GPHU courses:
- Introduction to epidemiology for public policy
- Population Health and Health Policy
- Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy
Professor Jeff Collin
Jeff Collin's research focuses on globalisation and tobacco control. His wider academic interest concerns global health governance and the health impacts of population mobility and of trade liberalisation. More about his work can be found here.
Dr Mark Hellowell
Programme Director MSc Health Systems and Public Policy; MSc Health Inequallities and Public Policy
Mark Hellowell's research programme focuses on the role of markets, competition and private financing in health care systems. More about his work can be found here.
He teaches on the following GPHU courses:
Dr Anuj Kapilashrami
Programme Director MSc Global Health & Public Policy
Anuj Kailashrami's research programme focuses on health policy and governance; theoretical and methodological engagement with Governance and the role of social movements in advancing human rights and social justice in health, and; gender inequalities and social and structural determinants of health. More about her work can be found here.
She teaches on the following GPHU courses:
- Health and Human Rights
- Global Politics of Public Health
Dr Sudeepa Abeysinghe
Sudeepa Abeysinghe's research programme focuses on upon the relationship between knowledge and policy, particular in the global management of risk. She is particularly interested in the social construction of risk and uncertainty, infectious disease governance, the political sociology of institutions, and the social classification of disease. More about her work can be found here.
She teaches on the following GPHU courses:
Dr Emily Adrion
Emily Adrion's research focuses on health care costs and utilisation, public and private health insurance markets, and health care financing. She is particularly interested patient out-of-pocket spending on medical care, and has expertise in quantitative methods and large database analysis.
She teaches on the following GPHU courses:
