Nick Black

Sir
Nick Black
FRCS Engl, FRCP Edin, FRSA
Born Nicholas Andrew Black
1951 (age 66–67)
Nationality United Kingdom
Alma mater University of Birmingham
Occupation Health services researcher
Employer London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Website www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/black.nick

Sir Nicholas Andrew Black FRCP Edin, FRCS Engl, (born 1951) is a British physician and health services researcher.

Black studied medicine at the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1974, worked for Save the Children Fund (UK) in Nepal for 18 months before undertaking a doctorate and training in public health at Oxford from 1978 to 1982.[1]

He was then a lecturer at the Open University for three years, writing a distance-learning course 'Health and Disease' with biologists, sociologists and economists.

In 1985 he obtained a position at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, becoming chair in health services research there in 1995.[1]

He established and co-edited the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy[2] from 1996 until 2017.

He published in 2006 Walking London's Medical History, a book of seven walks through London telling the story of how health services and health care policy developed. Since 2016 he has created two GPS guided walks on VoiceMap.

He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2017 New Year Honours for his services to healthcare research.[3][4] He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh (FRCP Edin) and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England (FRCS Engl).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Virginia Berridge; Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2006), Public health in the 1980s and 1990s: Decline and rise?, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-85484-106-6 , Wikidata Q29581737
  2. ↑ "Professor Nick Black". The Nuffield Trust. 5 January 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Knighthood for Nick Black". London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. pp. N1–N37.
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