Sick Societies
Responding to the global challenge of chronic disease
Edited by David Stuckler and Karen Siegel
Author Information
David Stuckler, MPH, PhD, is an economic sociologist and epidemiologist at Harvard University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, his MPH from Yale University and his PhD from Cambridge before becoming a Research Fellow at the London School and receiving his appointment to the Department of Sociology at Oxford. He has been widely-recognized as an expert on economics and global health, winning grants from the World Health Organization and UNICEF on the political economy of healthcare, and from the European Centers for Disease Control on the impact of economic crises on public health. He has taught at Yale, Cambridge and Oxford on the subjects of global politics, economics and health as well as quantitative methods. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, Guardian, New Scientist, BBC News, Scientific American, NPR, and Slate, among other print, radio and television venues.
Karen Siegel, MPH, received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MPH from Yale School of Public Health. She has written articles on environmental and policy approaches to prevent chronic diseases in India and globally, as well as on diabetes advocacy issues and chronic disease curricula improvement, in Health Affairs, The Lancet, Globalization & Health, and Nursing Standard. Previously, she played a major role in the development of the Oxford Health Alliance's Community Interventions for Health as part of the study's evaluation team, based at Matrix Public Health Solutions, Inc. and later at Oxford University. She is actively involved in the development of the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network, an online community with membership that spans over 150 members in 20 countries worldwide.
Contributors:
David Stuckler, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University, USA
Sanjay Basu
Karen Siegel, PhD student, Public Health Nutrition and Health Sciences, Laney Graduate School and Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, USA
Roberto de Vogli
Marc Suhrcke
Sandeep Kishore
Kathleen O'Connor Duffany
Denise Stevens
Lawrence King
Sarah Steele
Martin McKee
Tara Acharya, PhD, Research Fellow, PepsiCo, USA
Amy C. Fuller, MPH, MS, Consultant, Global Health Policy, PepsiCo, USA
George A. Mensah, MD, FACC, Director, Heart Health and Global Health Policy, PepsiCo, USA
Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, Senior Vice President, Global Health Policy, PepsiCo, USA
William H. Wiist
Victor K.R. Matsudo, Center of Studies of the Physical Fitness Research Laboratory from São Caetano do Sul (CELAFISCS), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sandra M.M. Matsudo, Center of Studies of the Physical Fitness Research Laboratory from São Caetano do Sul (CELAFISCS), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tania Cavalcante, National Tobacco Control Program, National Cancer Institute (INCA), Ministry of Health, Brazil
Lijing L. Yan, The George Institute, China
Yubei Huang, Peking University Health Science Center, China
Yangfeng Wu, The George Institute and Peking University Health Science Center, China
Chen Ying
Prabhakaran D., Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India and CARRS Center of Excellence, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
Ajay V.S., Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India and CARRS Center of Excellence, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
Mohan V., Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, India
Thankappan K.R., Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Venkat Narayan K.M., CARRS Center of Excellence, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India and Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Reddy K.S., CARRS Center of Excellence, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
Rebecca Kanter, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
Simon Barquera, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP), Mexico
Barry Popkin, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Krisela Steyn, Medical Research Council, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa
Debbie Bradshaw, Medical Research Council, UK
Naomi Levitt, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Estelle V Lambert, University of Cape Town, South Africa
