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Community and Global Health

Biography

Ted Schrecker, a Canadian political scientist who moved to the United Kingdom in 2013, is professor of global health policy at the Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University. His research focuses on the political economy of health on multiple scales; issues at the interface of science, ethics, public policy and law; and global health justice. He is co-author of Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health (University of Cape Town Press, 2004) and How Politics Makes Us Sick: Neoliberal Epidemics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and editor of the Research Companion to the Globalization of Health (Ashgate, 2012). Ted’s research has been published in journals including Critical Public Health, Global Public Health, Globalization and Health, Health & Place, Review of International Political Economy, Social Science & Medicine and Sociology Compass.