Professor of Sociology and African American & African Studies, Michigan State University
Jualynne Dodson is Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Program in African American & African Studies at Michigan State University and the founding Director of the African Atlantic Research Team. She earned the PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley with a specialization in religion.
Her research agenda focuses on religion and culture of African descendants in the Americas. She has written several articles and books on such topics as Women and Religion, Cuba’s Distinct Religions, the African Diaspora and Religion, Mentoring Racial Ethnic Students, Qualitative Research Methods and the African Diaspora, and many others. Among graduate courses Dodson has taught are “Structural Inequalities: Globalization and the African Diaspora”, “Religion, Culture, and Racial Identity”, and “Cross-Cultural Qualitative Research Methods”.
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Dr Juan Diaz-Granados is a Lecturer at Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University.
Dr Juan Diaz-Granados is a Lecturer at Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University.
He holds an LLB (Hons), Grad Dip Commercial Law, Grad Dip Business Law, Grad Dip Insurance Law, LLM International Law, and PhD. He is a lawyer with an international focus and with more than 14 years of experience between practice and teaching.
As a practitioner, he has worked in the private sector with law firms and multinational companies.
As an academic, he has experience in teaching in both the Civil Law and the Common Law legal systems at undergraduate and postgraduate level in a wide variety of law subjects.
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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University
Juan Escobar-Lamanna is a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at The Unviersity of Western Ontario.
His dissertation focuses on analyzing videogame accessibility through a critical disability framework, considering industry preferred player identities (who games are made for) and how videogames and the conversations we have about games can be more inclusive and accessible. His other research interests include: communities created around videogames, live-streaming on Twitch.tv, and the voluntary digital labour undertaken by modders and other videogame-focused communities in relation to exploitable labour.
He received his M.A. in Contemporary Art Histories: New Media from OCAD University and has a B.A. in Cinema and Media Studies from York University.
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Catedratico de Fisica Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Soy Catedrático de Física Teórica de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y Académico de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España.
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Assistant Professor of Design, Rochester Institute of Technology
Juan holds a Masters of Industrial Design (MID) from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a Bachelors of Industrial design (BID) from Universidad Rafael Landivar, in Guatemala City. He was raised in a colorful and vivid culture, quickly developing an interest in how things were made, tearing everything he owned apart and putting it back together, often with a few leftover pieces. After a succession of projects related to design for development, Juan was chosen as a Fulbright fellow for the class of 2013 by the U.S. Department of State. He went on to be the lead designer for Voxel8, helping create the world’s first 3D Electronics printer. He is currently Chair of the Product Design BFA at MICA in Baltimore, MA. Juan was honored as one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 for 2017.
He is currently Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
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Dr Ferrero holds a PhD on political sociology from the University of Bath. His thesis is entitled 'The Politics of democratisation in post-transition contexts: social movement organisations and trade unions in the production of democratic subjectivities in Argentina and Brazil'.
His latest book was published by Palgrave Macmillan (2014): 'Democracy Against Neoliberalism in Argentina and Brazil: A Move to the Left'. The book examines the complex roots of the left turn in Argentina and Brazil. Originating in the 1990s in a process of mobilization from below against neoliberalism, this turn gained visibility in the 2000s and continues through the present day.
Offering an in-depth analysis of key protagonists, including social movement and trade union organizations, Juan Pablo Ferrero deploys an original analytical model for understanding the nature, meaning, and organizational complexity of the emerging democratic force. Democracy against Neoliberalism in Argentina and Brazil asks us to examine closely what we mean by democracy and offers suggestions for how the left should approach democratic manifestations in order to make radical democracy the center of a renewed political strategy.
He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has been awarded a number of grants and prior to his appointment at Bath worked in academic institutions in Buenos Aires and Wellington.
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Reader in Structural Robustness, University of Surrey
Dr Juan Sagaseta joined University of Surrey as a Lecturer in September 2010. He obtained the degree of Civil Engineering (Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos) at the School of Civil Engineering in Santander, University of Cantabria (Spain) in 2003. During his degree, he specialized in the area of structures obtaining a final grade of A (Sobresaliente). After graduation, he worked as a Structural Engineer in a consultancy office in Madrid (Proes) carrying out structural design of buildings and bridges. In 2005, he moved to London to start his PhD at Imperial College London on Shear Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures. His thesis was focused on the influence of aggregate fracture on the shear strength of reinforced concrete beams. This work included testing of large-scale specimens and developing analytical models using the strut-and-tie method, discrete crack approaches and non-linear finite element analysis. The work was summarized in five journal papers and several conference papers. During his PhD he was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London in the following courses: Constructionarium project, Creative Design, Reinforced Concrete Design, Structural Mechanics and Autocad Drawing.
From 2008 to 2010, Dr Juan Sagaseta was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where he carried out research on punching shear of flat slabs and slab bridges. His work at EPFL focused on extending existing punching shear models and design methods to non-symmetrical cases, which are commonly found in practice. The findings contributed towards the validation of the new design formulas for punching shear in the first version of the New Model Code 2010 produced by the Fédération Internationale du Béton (fib). In 2011 he was awarded the fib Achievement Award (research category) based on his Doctoral Thesis for the scientific and technical contributions in the area of structural concrete. In 2012 he received the Magazine of Concrete Research Award (ICE publishing) for best paper of the year. In 2013-2014 he was the principal investigator in a EPSRC project on the structural performance of flat slab-column connections under impact and blast loading. He is currently involved in research on structural robustness and the development of innovative forms of construction using steel-concrete solutions.
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Professor of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion, Mississippi State University
Juan is a professor and extensionist in the Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion at Mississippi State University. He has a B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in food science and technology. He is a member and former director of the Board of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and was the leader of many divisions. He is now a member of the FSPCA Executive Advisory Board and leader of the international network of instructors. He is a recognized trainer of trainers and expert in food processing and safety, including traditional HACCP systems and newer Preventive Control systems that include supply chain programs, as well as in thermally processed and refrigerated/frozen food systems. An industry consultant for over 35 years, has conducted nearly 300 trainings on all continents of the world.
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Research assistant, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Juan Armando Torres Munguía holds a PhD Applied Statistics and Empirical Methods from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, a Master in Applied Statistics from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, and a Bachelor in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. His expertise focuses on the use of regression models for high-dimensional data.
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Colaborador de la Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
Coordinador del Proyecto Neopangea. Miembro de la Alliance of World Scientists y colaborador de la Facultat de Biologia de la Universitat de Barcelona.
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Investigador en Estudios Migratorios y Sociología, Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Juan Castillo Rojas-Marcos cursó el Doble Grado en Sociología y Ciencias Políticas y de la Administración (UPO) y el Máster en Antropología: Gestión de la Diversidad Cultural, el Patrimonio y el Desarrollo (US). Actualmente es investigador pre-doctoral en Estudios Migratorios, contratado en el marco del proyecto europeo SafeHabitus (Horizon Europe), en el Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones (IUEM) de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas. La tesis doctoral en la que trabaja versa sobre las condiciones de vida y trabajo y mecanismos de dominación de los trabajadores y trabajadoras migrantes en la agroindustria de Huelva. Tiene publicaciones académicas previas en sociología de la educación. Otras líneas de trabajo recientes tienen que ver con el análisis de procesos y conflictos urbanos. Además del proyecto europeo ya citado, participa y ha participado en otros proyectos nacionales. Ha hecho dos estancias de investigación en Ecuador.
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Researcher in Electrical Engineering, University College Cork
I am a researcher in electrical engineering with experience in industry and research on planning and operation of electricity distribution networks in Colombia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and Belgium.
I have authored numerous academic publications, my work has been presented in international conferences, and I am an IEEE (institute of electric and electronic engineers) and PES (power and energy society) member.
My interests in research are in sustainability, energy policy, integration of distributed energy resources in electricity networks, planning and operation of distribution networks and energy communities.
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Postdoctoral Associate, department of Microbiology and Immunology, Western University
Graduated from the school of veterinary medicine in 2016 and completed my doctoral studies in biological sciences in 2021, I have worked with a variety of microbial species of interest in human and animal health focused mainly on identifying the pathophysiology of various diseases, as well as treating them.
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
Juan S. Morales (PhD, University of Toronto) is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. His research interests include political economy, development economics, applied microeconomics, conflict, and media.
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Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
Dr. Jude Bayham’s research focuses on the intersection of the natural environment, public policy and human health, including wildfire management in the wildland urban interface, the impact of human behavior on infectious disease management and impacts of air quality on human health. Dr. Bayham also teaches courses on the economics of outdoor recreation, data-driven decision making and economic research methodology.
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Professor of Sustainable Beef and Sheep Production, Harper Adams University
Professor Capper has over 17 years of experience in assessing the environmental impacts and sustainability of livestock production systems through whole-system holistic models based on cattle performance and nutritional principles. She has a PhD in ruminant nutrition and behaviour and specific expertise in beef population dynamics, nutrition, greenhouse gas emissions, resource use, and whole-system environmental sustainability.
Prof. Capper's research focuses on modeling the sustainability of livestock production systems, specifically beef, sheep and dairy with current projects relating to the factors influencing greenhouse gas emissions, economic viability and whole system sustainability of UK beef and sheep operations; and interactions between dairy and beef cattle productivity on the sustainability of the combined UK cattle population.
Prof. Capper is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Butchers and Treasurer of the National Beef Association. She is also Chair of the Route Panel for Agriculture, Environment and Animal Care and Vice-Chair of the Green Apprenticeships Advisory Panel at the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.
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Senior Lecturer in Geography, York St John University
Jude Parks is a social geographer with interest in community participation. Her work explores understandings of social sustainability and its links with environmental sustainability and responses to climate crisis. She is currently involved in cross-disciplinary pedagogical research into student engagement with climate and ecological justice, including through a Living Lab project.
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Professor of Art History, University of Dayton
Judith L. Huacuja is a Chicana scholar who researches and teaches across the disciplines of ethnic studies, women's studies and visual culture. She brings expertise in Latin American and African American contemporary art history as well as a secondary emphasis in non-Western art history. Dr. Huacuja's recent research explores the cultural histories in African American as well as Latin American art of the Midwest. Her research and teaching methods analyze aesthetics and philosophies in relation to minority issues of resistance, activism and integration.
Dr. Huacuja's research grants include the College Art Association Cummings Fellowship, the Smithsonian Institution's Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Chicana Studies Dissertation Fellowship (UCSB), a UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant, several Ohio Humanities Council grants and an Ohio Arts Council grant.
Dr. Huacuja has undertaken numerous curatorial projects including "Three Generations of Chicana Art," "Latino Art of the Midwest," and "Sera," featuring artists whose work references Hispanic, Latino and Chicano social issues. Recent curatorial projects on African American artists include "Masks, Music, and Musings: A Retrospective Exhibition and Symposium on the Art of Curtis Barnes Sr." and "Marking the Past/Shaping the Present: The Art of Willis Bing Davis."
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Oklahoma
Judith Liu is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma.
Fields: Health Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics
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Principal Teaching Fellow in Ecology and Evolution, University of Southampton
In my PhD I looked at parent-offspring conflict, using burying beetles are my model species. These beetles provide care to their offspring for about a week after they hatch, and care is best when it is provided by both parents - who divide tasks between them - more direct behaviours by mothers and indirect by fathers.
Since completing my PhD I have become a teaching-focussed academic, teaching animal behaviour and related topics in evolutionary ecology and conservation. I am programme lead for MRes Wildlife Conservation at the University of Southampton, a programme run in collaboration with Marwell Wildlife.
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Senior Research Scientist, Boston University
My research interest is in highly pathogenic RNA viruses with a focus on virus host interactions and how viruses counteract the immune reponse. I am experienced in working with Filoviruses, Henipaviruses and Lassa virus, which are highly pathogenic for humans under high containment conditions. In additon I am also interrested in the interplay of SARS-CoV-2 with the immune system.
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Professor of French language, French and Francophone Literature, University of Windsor
Dr Judith Sinanga-Ohlmann is a graduate of the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and Queen’s University. After her MA degree in semiotics and literary sciences at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, she continued her studies at Queen’s University, where she obtained her PhD degree in Francophone literatures.
She is a professor at the University of Windsor, where she teaches Francophone literatures, feminist literature and cultures from sub-Saharan Africa.
Her research interests include diaspora, exile, social justice and feminist literature.
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Assistant Professor of Northwest Coast Arts, University of Alaska Southeast
Judith’s Dax̱ootsú Ramos is Tlingit from Yakutat, Alaska. She worked for Yakutat Tlingit Tribe as an anthropologist. She is a co-curator for the Northwest Coast Hall renovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Her publications include: Ramos, J. (2020). Tlingit Hunting along the Edge: Ice Floe Harbor Seal Hunting in Yakutat Bay, Alaska., A. Crowell (ED.), Arctic crashes: People and animals in the changing north. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Scholarly Press; “This is Kuxaankutaan’s (Dr. Frederica de Laguna’s) Song” with Elaine Abraham: and “Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Tlingit People Concerning the Sockeye Salmon Fishery of the Dry Bay Area” with Rachel Mason.
Daughter of Elaine Abraham and George Ramos, mother of Kai Abraham Monture and Maka Jinatlaa Monture.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in the Canada Program, Harvard University
I am an anthropologist of religion in North America. So, I am interested in religion, spirituality, and meaning making in people’s everyday lives. In my dissertation project, I used ethnographic and archival methods to explore how oil culture in Alberta shapes how people imagine what a good life is and how to live it. This current project focuses on the power of place, and how land plays a part in people’s lifeworlds, so I also work within the environmental humanities.
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LIUNA Enrico Henry Mancinelli Chair of Global Labour Issues, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University
Judy Fudge is the LIUNA Enrico Henry Mancinelli Chair of Global Labour Issues in the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University, which she joined in July 2018. Judy began her academic career in Canada, where she was Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (1987-2006) and Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria (2007-2013), before moving to England to teach at the University of Kent (2013-2018). She has held visiting professorships and fellowships at several universities and institutes in Canada and Europe. In 2013, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; in 2014 she received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lund in Sweden; and in 2019 she received the Bora Laskin Award for her distinguished contributions to Canadian Labour Law.
Judy takes a socio-legal approach to studying work and labour and is committed to fostering a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing workers. She has worked with women’s groups, legal clinics, trade unions and the International Labour Organization. Her most recent work focuses on labour exploitation, modern slavery and unfree labour in the context of labour migration and global supply chains.
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Senior Lecturer, Clinical Psychology, University of Wollongong
I am a Clinical Psychologist teaching in the Clinical Psychology Program. My research interests are in mindfulness, self compassion and attachment relationships. I have significant experience working clinically with mental health disorders.
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Professor of Public Economics, University of Helsinki
Jukka Pirttilä is a professor of public economics at the University of Helsinki and also works as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He conducts research on topics related to taxation and social protection in developing countries.
Pirttilä has a doctorate in economics from the University of Helsinki and is a Fellow of the CESifo network. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Journal and the European Economic Review.
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PhD Student in Media, Technology & Culture, University of Toronto
Jul Parke is a PhD student specializing in social media platforms, digital racism, virtual influencers, and AI phenomena at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information.
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Chair professor of Clinical Integrative Physiology, Karolinska Institutet
Juleen R. Zierath is presently Professor of Clinical Integrative Physiology and Head of the Section of Integrative Physiology at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery and the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Karolinska lnstitutet. She is also appointed Professor of Physiology at the University of Copenhagen, where she is Executive Director at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research.
Zierath’s research has provided evidence for the physiological regulation of insulin signaling pathways in skeletal muscle, revealing key steps that are impaired in diabetic patients. As an exercise physiologist, she has a long-standing interest in the health–promoting benefits of physical exercise. The ultimate goal of her work is to identify and validate molecular candidates to prevent or treat insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes. Improving insulin sensitivity should alleviate diabetic complications and enrich the quality of life for the diabetic patient.
Zierath is past president of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Assembly. She was chair of the Nobel Committee at Karolinska lnstitutet between 2013 and 2015 and is currently an adjunct member of this committee.
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Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs, Temple University
Jules Epstein is the Edward D. Ohlbaum Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs at Temple University Beasley School of Law. He is a former partner at the highly respected Philadelphia criminal defense and civil rights firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg, & Lin LLP, where he remains of counsel. Professor Epstein teaches criminal law and evidence courses.
A 1978 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Professor Epstein began his legal career with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1988 through 2006, has taught in and prepared materials for countless continuing legal education programs, and has authored dozens of articles and book chapters on criminal law and evidence topics. He served as a Professor of Law and the Director of the Taishoff Advocacy, Technology, and Public Service Institute at Widener School of Law before joining the faculty at Temple.
Professor Epstein’s work has concentrated, in recent years, on capital case, eyewitness, and forensics issues. He has taught death penalty law nationally to judges and attorneys, and continues to handle capital cases at the appellate and post conviction stages. In the area of eyewitness evidence, he has lectured, authored both articles and book chapters, and served as an expert witness.
Nationally, Professor Epstein served as a member of the National Commission on Forensic Science from 2013 until the Commission’s demise in 2017. He is faculty for the National Judicial College, teaching courses to judges in advanced evidence and capital case law. In Pennsylvania, he is a member of a group of lawyers, judges and academics revising the Suggested Standard Jury Instruction, Criminal, and served on a commission addressing issues in cases of wrongful convictions.
Education
Juris Doctor, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, 1978
Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Arts (Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), University of Pennsylvania, 1975
Research & Teaching Areas
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Evidence
Trial Advocacy
Areas of Expertise
Criminal Law and Procedure
Evidence
Trial Advocacy
Pennsylvania Criminal Law & Procedure
Death Penalty
Forensic Science
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sheffield
Jules is a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Their research is in social and moral philosophy.
Much of Jules' previous research has focused on implicit gender and racial biases – automatic patterns of thought that can lead us to stereotype and discriminate. Jules has written on the ways in which we, and institutions in which we participate, perpetuate injustices, and what to do about it – their research has examined notions such a discrimination, collective vices, and integrity in criminal justice. This research spans the topics of political philosophy, moral psychology and social philosophy (in particular, feminist philosophy and philosophy of race). Their current work focuses on how praise, in response to achievements - which philosophers have typically assumed to be a benefit - might instead sometimes perpetuate oppression and injustice.
Jules has led interdisciplinary research projects (with psychologists) that have investigated how to address implicit biases (with a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant, 2014-2017), and worked with legal scholars in exploring the implications of this research for legal concepts and practice. More recently Jules received a fellowship from the Mind Association to complete a book on praise.
Jules has had the opportunity to use this research in a range of contexts, such as with members of the judiciary and the civil service in the UK; in making policy recommendations within higher education institutions regarding parental leave policies and practice; developing gender inclusion policies to guide interactions between staff and students in higher education; and reviewing policies regarding recognition and promotion.
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, University of Adelaide
My main research interests are the social, political and economic determinants of health and health equity. A particular interest is the growing recognition of the commercial determinants of health, or the systems, practices and pathways through which commercial actors drive health and equity.
I have contributed to setting a research agenda on the health impacts of transnational corporations and have conducted health impact assessments of individual corporations spanning fast food, extractives, and alcohol industries in Australia and Southern Africa. I helped to convene a Citizen's Jury to provide recommendations to government for improved regulation of the fast-food sector.
I am currently employed (part-time) on the NHMRC Investigator Grant 'Restoring the Fair Go: which policies and practices are likely to reverse growing health inequities post Covid-19?' I lead the the privatisation theme which investigates the health impacts from privatisation and outsourcing of public sector roles to the private sector, including to large global consultancy and accounting firms.
My educational qualifications are BA Hons, BSW, MPub Pol, PhD.
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Assistant Professor of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
I am an anthropologist and bioethicist who investigates the lived experiences of controversial medical treatments.
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Research Assistant, Telfer School of Management, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Julia is a recent graduate from the MSc Health Systems program at the Telfer School of Management currently working as a qualitative research assistant.
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