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Elizabeth Pisani
British-American epidemiologist, public health consultant and author / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Elizabeth Pisani (born 1964) is a British-American epidemiologist, public health consultant, author and journalist. She is an academic researcher and the director of Ternyata Ltd., a public health consultancy based in London, UK.[1] Her research investigates the ways in which politics, economics and culture influence public health. This has included markets for substandard and falsified medicines and HIV. Before this, Pisani was a journalist who worked as a correspondent for Reuters in several Asian countries.
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Born | 1964 (age 59ā60) United States |
Nationality | American, British |
Alma mater | Oxford University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, |
Occupation(s) | Epidemiologist, analyst, author |
Notable work | The Wisdom of Whores, Indonesia, etc. |
Website | www |
Her first book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS,[2] which examines factors influencing decision-making for HIV prevention, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2009.[3] Pisani is also known for her 2014 travel book Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation, in addition to other writings on the society and politics of Indonesia.
Pisani holds (or has held) visiting or honorary posts at Universitas Pancasila Jakarta (Professor); the George Institute for Global Health (Professorial Fellow); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Honorary Associate Professor); the Policy Institute, King's College London (Senior Research Fellow); Imperial College London (Reader); and the School of Health Policy and Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Associate Professor).