Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice and Oxford Handbook of Infectious Diseases (Oxford Medical Handbooks)
Brand: Oxford University Press
Categories: Books, Medical Books, Medicine



Dimensions: 7.3 x 2.1 x 4.3 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198758030
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Print length: 1600 pages
Publication date: May 8, 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0198758037
Edition: 3rd
subtitle: 3rd Edition
author: Estee Torok Ed Moran Fiona Cooke Charles Guest Walter Ricciardi Ichiro Kawachi Iain Lang
review: Editorial Reviews About the Author Charles Guest, Senior Specialist, Australian Capital Territory Government Health Directorate & Australian National University, Canberra, Australia ,Walter Ricciardi, Director of the Institute of Hygiene, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy ,Ichiro Kawachi, Professor of Social Epidemiology & Chairman of the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA ,Iain Lang, Consultant in Public Health, NHS Devon & Senior Lecturer in Public Health, National Institute for Health Research Peninsula Collaboration for Applied Health Research and Care (PenCLAHRC), Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Exeter, UK ,Estee Torok, Clinician Scientist Fellow & Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK ,Ed Moran, Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases, University of Oxford, UK ,Fiona Cooke, Consultant in Microbiology, Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntongdon, UK Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice Dr Charles Guest has worked in government and academic public health in Australia and elsewhere, following graduation from Melbourne, Deakin and Harvard Universities. After medical registration in 1980 and clinical practice in Melbourne, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, posted to the New York City Department of Health in 1984. Subsequently, he undertook research on chronic disease in Australian Aborigines, communicable disease and environmental health. He is currently a Senior Specialist in Population Health, Australian Capital Territory Government, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University. Professor Walter Ricciardi is the Director of the Institute of Hygiene, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome. He graduated from the University of Naples (Medicine and Surgery) in 1984, specialised in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine in 1988 and obtained his MSc (Community Medicine) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1989. Since 1993 he has held a number of key positions including President of the European Public Health Association, and has undertaken work with the World Health Organisation and the European Union. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom and is a Member of the National Board of Medical Examiners, USA. Dr Ichiro Kawachi is Professor of Social Epidemiology, and Chairman of the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kawachi received his medical degree and Ph.D. (epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of over 400 articles on the social and economic determinants of population health. He was the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000. He is also Senior Editor of the Social Epidemiology section of the international journal Social Science & Medicine. He has served as an advisor to the WHO, the World Bank, and the Pan American Health Organization. Dr Iain Lang is a Consultant in Public Health with NHS Devon Primary Care Trust and a Senior Lecturer in Public Health based at the National Institute for Health Research Peninsula Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (PenCLAHRC), Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Exeter, UK. His practice and research interests are in the health of middle-aged and older people, quality of care, and health service improvement. Oxford Handbook of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Estee Torok trained in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology in Oxford. Prior to this she was a Clinical Research Fellow based at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam. Her research interests are HIV, tuberculosis, central nervous system infections and the development of diagnostic tests for the developing world. Ed Moran is a registrar in Infectious Disease and General Medicine. He trained in Cambridge, studied for the Diploma in Tropical Medicine in Liverpool and undertook his PhD in Dengue Fever immunology in Oxford and Vietnam. He has worked as a physician in the UK and South Africa, and is currently based at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Fiona Cooke trained in Medical Microbiology in London and Cambridge. She completed her PhD at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Her interests are gastro-intestinal infections, bacterial genomics and the development of molecular tests.