International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Nottingham. I am based in the School of English and my thesis is concerned with the interaction between contemporary poetry, nature, and the environment.

Artist and Art Therapist, currently volunteering at the Helen Bamber Foundation teaching art.  The class meets weekly at the Helen Bamber Foundation, a human rights organisation that provides therapeutic (medical and psychological) and practical support to survivors of human rights violations.  I am very interested in this type of hybrid project work that is neither therapy nor a straight-forward art group.

Chancellor's Fellow in Health, through Arts, Design and Humanities. Based in the School of Health in Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, but I work in collaboration with colleagues from across the University, particularly with Edinburgh College of Art. I am a sociologist by background, specialising in mental health and addictions, drawing on qualitative/narrative methodologies. More info and details of publications can be found here: https://edinburgh.academia.edu/AmyChandler 

Andrea Charise is a Postdoctoral Fellow-in-Residence at the University of Iowa’s Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.  She received her PhD from Department of English at the University of Toronto where, over the course of her degree, she also participated in the transdisciplinary collaborative program “Health Care, Technology, and Place.” Dr. Charise’s interest in the literary study of older age stems from more than ten years of work experience as a clinical research associate in geriatric medicine, and her current book-in-progress explores how the "invention" of population in early 19th-century Britain impacted broader narrative representations of older age. Her research has been published in multiple venues including Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Academic Medicine, Essays in Romanticism, and English Literary History (ELH).

In 2011 she organized the three-day international conference, “Aging, Old Age, Memory, Aesthetics,” and co-edited the conference proceedings in a special issue of Stanford University’s open-access online scholarly journal Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (2012). Dr Charise is also the primary organizer of the upcoming event, "Health Humanities: Building the Future of Research and Teaching," taking place at the University of Iowa, April 4-5, 2014.

Click here to visit Dr. Charise's website and follow her on Twitter @AndreaCharise.

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Rodger Charlton, BA MPhil MD FRCGP FRNZCGP

Professor Rodger Charlton is a Family Physician in the UK, working as a Professor of Primary Care Education at Nottingham Medical School and an Honorary Professor at Swansea College of Medicine. He has a keen interest in both cancer care and end-of-life care and as a practicing primary care physician. A considerable challenge is to recognize a patient who may have what might be defined as suffering ‘spiritual pain’ in addition to physical pain. This is an area of healthcare that is poorly understood and recognized both in palliation at end-of-life and in primary care generally where patients have long term conditions and multiple co-morbidities.

Professor Charlton qualified (MB ChB) from Birmingham, UK, in 1983 and then completed an MPhil thesis in Medical Ethics. Shortly afterwards he became a part-time Lecturer in General Practice at Nottingham University. In 1991-2, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand, researching into the perceived needs of undergraduates in palliative medicine education. This formed the basis of his MD thesis. In 1994 he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Primary Health Care at the Postgraduate School of Medicine, Keele University. In September 2000 he was appointed as senior lecturer in continuing professional development at Warwick University and in January 2003 he became the Director of GP Undergraduate Medical Education at Warwick Medical School and an Associate Clinical Professor. He has completed 6 textbooks including; ) “Primary Palliative Care: Dying, Death & Bereavement in the Community”Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, Oxford, UK. 2002. He is the Honorary Editor of RCGP Publications.

Professor Charlton has been a GP since 1987 and a GP Trainer since 1998 and a Training Programme Director for GP Registrars at Solihull VTS for five years. In June 2011 he was appointed as a Professor of Medical Education and sub Dean for Community Based Learning at the College of Medicine at Swansea University and was a senior member of the team that helped Swansea to be accredited as Wales’s second medical school. This led to his most recent appointment at Nottingham in August 2012. He remains an active clinician as a GP and has a fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in London and in New Zealand. He received a national bronze clinical excellence award in 2008 in the UK.

Helen Chatterjee is a Professor of Biology in UCL Biosciences and UCL Arts & Sciences. Her research includes biodiversity conservation, cultural and natural value, object-based learning, and evidencing the impact of natural and cultural participation on health; she co-founded the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance, is an advisor to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Chairs the Royal Society for Public Health’s SIG in Arts and Health, and serves on the IUCN Section on Small Apes Committee. She is currently an Advisor on the AHRC-DCMS ‘Boundless Creativity’ Expert Advisory Panel which is making recommendations for DCMS’s Covid-19 recovery plans. Helen’s interdisciplinary research has won a range of awards including a Special Commendation from Public Health England for Sustainable Development and most recently the 2018 AHRC-Wellcome Health Humanities Medal and Leadership Award; she received an MBE in 2015 for Services to Higher Education and Culture. Helen has written four books 'Touch in Museums: Policy and Practice in Object Handling' (Berg Publications, 2008), ‘Museums, Health and Well-being’ (Routledge, 2013), ‘Engaging the Senses: Object-Based Learning in Higher Education’ (Routledge, 2015), ‘Material Connections: From Object-Based Learning to Object-Based Well-being’ (Taylor Francis, 2020) and over 50 research articles. 

researcher at university of nottingham, UK - interests in Habermasian / deliberative democracy perspective perspective on self help, patients', service user, health advocacy groups  - growing interst in cultural activities underatken these groups

3rd year pediatrics resident 

I am an Environmental and Public Health Microbiologist, skilled in the application of molecular techniques, microbial risk assessment and bioinformatics, and in the relational style of teaching. My primary research interests include Water quality and public health, Molecular epidemiology of enteric pathogens (bacterial and viral), Dispersion of virulence and antibiotic resistance genes, Bioactive agents from natural sources, especially the aquatic environments and plants, and Bioenergy from wastewater. My professional goals are to continue acquiring skills and knowledge, to do and publish quality researches, to seek and establish international collaborations and secure funding for research, and to build a Laboratory that will, on the long-term, emerge as a Centre of excellence for water, enteric pathogens and molecular epidemiology research. A confident, self-motivated, result-oriented and resilient team-player, I lead the multidisciplinary Water and Public Health Research Group (WPHRG) at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. This interdisciplinary group is a convergence of health and humanities that engages in projects that focus on assessing the quality and availability (cost) of water for drinking and domestic purposes, identifying risks to water safety and livelihoods, using health communication strategies like Theatre for Development and Entertainment-education as innovative tools to engage the public, community leaders and policy makers on water issues and to bring about attitudinal change and sustainable health, and building capacity in the water and sanitation sector.