About us

The Global Health Policy Unit (GHPU) is a unique, cross-disciplinary team of researchers and lecturers who are committed to addressing the major global health policy challenges facing countries of all income-levels.

Our world-leading research and expertise allows us to offer practical solutions for decision-makers at all levels of governance, and collaborate with international actors such as the World Bank, World Health Organization, governments and other research and advocacy organisations globally.

Our research is organised around seven key themes:

  • Health policy processes
  • Power and governance
  • Health systems
  • Commercial determinants of health
  • Equity and health inequalities
  • Knowledges and epistemologies of health
  • Care in formal and informal settings

GHPU is also a leader in global health and health policy education and training, providing a range of on-campus and online programmes that attract the highest calibre of students from every region of the world.

If you have any questions about our degree programmes, courses, research, or other activities, please get in touch with us. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Meet the team
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Emily Adrion

Director, Global Health Policy Unit

Emily is a Senior Lecturer in Global Health Policy. Her broad research interests include health care costs and utilisation, public and private health insurance markets, managed care, and health care financing.

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Sudeepa Abeysinghe

Senior Lecturer, Global Health Policy

Sudeepa's research focuses upon the relationship between knowledge and policy in the global management of risk.

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Eleanor Brooks

Senior Lecturer, European Health Policy

Eleanor's research focuses on the political determinants of health in the context of EU health governance. She has a particular interest in fiscal governance and regulatory reform frameworks.

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Jeff Collin

Jeff Collin

Professor of Global Health Policy

Jeff's research interests focus on health policy and global health governance, with a particular emphasis on the role of the commercial sector.

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Mark Hellowell

Mark Hellowell

Senior Lecturer, Global Health Policy

Mark is a senior lecturer in Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the financing and delivery of public health and healthcare.

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Ben Kasstan-Dabush

Lecturer, Global Health Policy

 

Ben is a lecturer in Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh. A medical anthropologist, his research focuses on ideas of health protection, in the context of childhood vaccinations, and sexual and reproductive health.

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Kristina Kim

Research Fellow

kristina.kim@ed.ac.uk

Kristina is a research fellow within the Global Health Policy Unit. Her current project aims to develop an evidence synthesis of actions for addressing the commercial determinants of health at the local authority level. Kristina’s other research interests include tobacco control, decolonising global health and the relationship between evidence and health policy and practice.

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Kathrin Lauber

Research Fellow

kathrin.lauber@ed.ac.uk

Kathrin is a Research Fellow within the Global Health Policy Unit. Her research explores power dynamics in policymaking, with a focus on the role of the commercial sector. She has a particular interest in food systems and advertising regulation.

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Nason Maani

Lecturer, Global Health Policy

nason.maani@ed.ac.uk

Nason is a lecturer in Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the structural and corporate determinants of health.

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Kaveri Qureshi

Kaveri Qureshi

Senior Lecturer, Global Health Equity

Kaveri.qureshi@ed.ac.uk

Kaveri’s research addresses how structures of racial capitalism, patriarchy and coloniality shape health inequality; experiences of family and intimate life; and the connections between family life and health.

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Amrit Virk

Lecturer, Health Policy

Amrit's research is focused on health in low- and middle-income countries, spanning work across Malaysia, India, Thailand and Sierra Leone. Prominent themes include universal health coverage, health care financing, the political economy of health reforms and health systems strengthening.

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Honorary Staff
Meet our honorary GHPU staff
Colin Brown

Colin Brown

Scottish Government
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Katherine Brown

Katherine Brown

Chief Executive, Institute of Alcohol Studies
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Kat Smith

Katherine Smith

Professor of Global Health Policy
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Anuj Kapilashrami

Honorary Lecturer
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Jonathan Suk

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
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Sarah Hill

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PhD Students
Meet our current doctoral students
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Khuloud Alsaba

PhD Student

PhD Title: Social Determinants of Health in Conflict and War: Militarization and Health in Syria

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Jyotirupa Das

PhD Student
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Misbah Haqani

PhD Student
Lois King

Lois King

PhD Student

lois.king@ed.ac.uk

PhD Title: Governance of Childhood Pneumonia: Assessing the Effect of Global Narratives on National Priorities and Implementation in Bangladesh

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Jana Lohrova

PhD Student

jlohrova@ed.ac.uk

PhD Title: The role of public health and epidemiological reasoning and expertise in the making of COVID-19 policies in the Czech Republic

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João Paulo Magalhães

PhD Student

j.p.magalhaes@sms.ed.ac.uk

PhD Title: Implications of the multiple redistributive policy priorities within the European Semester for health and wellbeing

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Pia Noel

PhD Student

Pia.Noel@ed.ac.uk

PhD Title: An ethnography of the mental health system, aid, and modern nation-building in post-earthquake and federalising Nepal

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Neerja Pathak

PhD Student

N.M.Pathak@sms.ed.ac.uk

PhD Title: To be Named in Marriage: An Anthropological exploration of first name-change practice of women post-marriage in India

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Helen Patterson

Helen Patterson

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Laila Rajani

PhD Student

Laila.Rajani@ed.ac.uk

PhD title: Progress Paradox: exploring the intersections of psychiatry development and death in Tharparkar Pakistan

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