Nicholas B. King is an associate professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit and Department of Social Studies of Medicine, and associate member of Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at 污污草莓视频 University. He directs the Montreal Health Equity Research Consortium (MHERC), a multi-disciplinary project investigating health and health equity research and policies. Dr. King conducts research in the following areas: (1) The role of social context, framing effects, and biases in the production and interpretation of health information; (2) Public health ethics and policy, including the ethics of biosecurity and public health preparedness; and (3) Health inequalities and the social determinants of health. He has published in the聽BMJ,听PLOS Medicine, the聽American Journal of Public Health, and the聽Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
Selected Articles and Books
2015听King, Nicholas B.聽鈥淓bola 1995/2014.鈥澛�Limn聽5 ().
2014 Voigt, Kristin,听Nicholas B. King. 鈥淒isability Weights in the Global Burden of Disease 2010: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back?鈥澛�Bulletin of the World Health Organization聽92: 226-228.
2014听King, Nicholas B.聽鈥淐ontagion: A Misnomer for Financial Crisis.鈥澛�Journal of Public Health聽36(1):18-19. doi:聽10.1093/pubmed/fdt084.
2013听King, Nicholas B., Sam Harper, Meredith E. Young. 鈥淲ho Cares About Health Inequalities? Cross-country Evidence from the World Health Survey鈥澛�Health Policy and Planning聽28(5): 558-571.
2004听King, Nicholas B.聽鈥淭he Scale Politics of Emerging Diseases.鈥澛�Osiris聽19: 62-76.
2002听King, Nicholas B.聽鈥淪ecurity, Disease, Commerce: Ideologies of Post-Colonial Global Health.鈥澛�Social Studies of Science聽32(5/6): 763-789.
2008听King, Nicholas B.聽鈥淣etworks, Disease, and the Utopian Impulse.鈥� In S. Harris Ali & Roger Keil, Ed.,听Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City聽(Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell): 201-213.
2003听King, Nicholas B.聽鈥淚mmigration, Race, and Geographies of Difference in the Tuberculosis Pandemic,鈥� in Matthew Gandy & Alimuddin Zumla, Eds,听Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the New Tuberculosis聽(London: Verso Press).
