Nick Black
British physician and health services researcher
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Sir Nicholas Andrew Black FRCPE FRCS (born 1951) is a British physician and health services researcher.
1951 (age 74–75)
Sir Nick Black | |
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| Born | Nicholas Andrew Black 1951 (age 74–75) UK |
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham |
| Occupation | Health services researcher |
| Employer | GoodUnited |
| Website | www |
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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]
