Dr. Gavin J. Andrews is a Professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at Mc Master University, and an Associate member of the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at the same institution. He is a health geographer with wide-ranging empirical interests including in aging, holistic medicine, health care work, fitness cultures, health histories and arts. Much of his work is theoretical and considers the state-of-the-art of health geography. In recent years he has become interested in the potential of posthumanist and non-representational theories for conveying the vitality, immediacy and practice of health and wellbeing.
Dr. Valorie Crooks is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University (Canada). She currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies and a Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Much of her research examines the ethical, equity, and safety issues associated with transnational healthcare mobilities (e.g., medical tourism). Dr. Crooks is a Section Editor with the journal Globalization & Health and is Founding Editor of Springer”s Global Perspectives on Health Geography book series.
Dr. Jamie Pearce is Professor of Health Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK where he is co-Director of the Centre for Research on Environment Society and Health (CRESH), and Director of the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science. Professor Pearce’s research seeks to understand various social, political and environmental mechanisms operating at a range of geographical scales that establish and perpetuate spatial inequalities in health over the lifecourse. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Health and Place, and founding co- is Editor-in-Chief of the recently established journal Wellbeing, Space & Society. Dr. Janey Messina is a jointly appointed Associate Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. She is also a Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Pandemic Genomics. She is a quantitative geographer by training, with a background in health geography and spatial epidemiology of infectious diseases. She has previously led spatial epidemiology research in Oxford”s Department of Zoology, and served as secretariat to the Rockefeller Foundtion Economic Council on Planetary Health.
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Gavin J. Andrews & Valorie A. Crooks: COVID-19 and Similar Futures
This volume provides a critical response to the COVID-19 pandemic showcasing the full range of issues and perspectives that the discipline of geography can expose and bring to the table, not only to …
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