Community Power & Health
Medical Editing & Publishing
Examples of my work
Since 2013, I have examined the realities of bridging the health sector and communities. It is fuelled by the insight that health care in high-income countries is increasingly unsustainable because medicine and public health fail to appreciate how people understand their health.
Through my work, I have come to see that community power is fundamental to the future of health and the health sector.
As an independent scholar and writer, I fund my work through consulting and speaking. My consulting is not only in community power and health but also in medical editing and publishing. I previously worked as an editor and/or publisher at TEDMED, Map of Medicine, F1000, BioMed Central and The BMJ.
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Latest Articles
Death, Structures, Power and Belonging
A conversation with Tony Iton on how death helped him understand life, and some news on our work linking power and dying
The Path to Liberation and Social Change
A conversation with Katherine Zappone, an educator and feminist, and one of the architects of same-sex marriage in Ireland
It’s About Justice, Not Charity
A conversation with three community organisers, Olivia Masoja, Marzena Zukowska, and Stephanie Wong, on power, relationships and justice
The Necessity of Struggle
A conversation with Leigh Carroll and Lynn Weidner on how unions can help create the kind of society we want to live in
Lighting Fires and Staying Accountable
A conversation with Martha Mackenzie on community organising, repairing democracy and holding philanthropy to account
Our Article in Health Affairs on Community Power
Building on theoretical and empirical research, we describe what community power is and why it’s fundamental to structural change and health equity