Sir Nicholas Andrew Black FRCPE FRCS (born 1951) is a British physician and health services researcher.

Sir
Nick Black
Born
Nicholas Andrew Black

1951 (age 72–73)
UK
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
OccupationHealth services researcher
EmployerGoodUnited
Websitewww.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/black.nick

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]

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  1. ^ a b c Virginia Berridge; Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2006). Public health in the 1980s and 1990s: Decline and rise?. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-106-6. OL 11612224M. Wikidata Q29581737.
  2. ^ "Professor Nick Black". The Nuffield Trust. 5 January 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Knighthood for Nick Black". London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  4. ^ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. pp. N1–N37.

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