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Dr Brandy Shillace
Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities
Brandy Schillace, PhD, is Senior Research Associate and Public Engagement and Programs Leader for the Dittrick Museum of Medical History. Dr Schillace writes about intersections of medicine, history, and literature. For ten years, she managed the medical anthropology journal, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, and edited its first medical humanities special issue. Brandy’s recent books include Death’s Summer Coat (2016), Clockwork Futures (2017) and Mr Humble and Dr Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul (2021).
Richard Hurley
Features and Debates Editor – The BMJ
Richard Hurley is The BMJs features and debates editor, responsible for our head to head debates; features, and essays. He’s particularly interested in poverty, migration, doctor assisted dying and illicit drug policy and their impact on health.
Dr Andrea Cipriani
Editor-in-Chief of Evidence-Based Mental Health
Andrea Cipriani, MD, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry and NIHR Research Professor at the University of Oxford. He is an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the Associate Director for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford. His main research interests are evidence-based mental health and precision psychiatry. His research focuses on the evaluation of pharmacological, psychological and psychosocial interventions.
Professor Juan Víctor Ariel Franco
Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
Professor Juan Franco is a family doctor at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Vice-chair of the Research Department at the Instituto Universitario Hispital Italiano (IUHI), where he is also Director of the Cochrane Associate Centre. He is a professor at IUHI and Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, and editor for the Cochrane Urology Group and a member of Cochrane’s Governing Board.
Dr Nick Brown
Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood
Dr Nick Brown is a paediatrician and epidemiologist. His initial training was in the UK in general paediatrics, but for the last 25 years, he has had a parallel carer in academic international child health. Nick has lived and worked in Sudan, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, India and Pakistan, largely as an epidemiologist. He has a long affiliation with the Aga Khan University in Karachi where he teaches epidemiology, biostatistics and research methodology and is involved in studies in child pneumonia, rheumatic heart disease, thalassaemia and early child development. Nick is currently based in Sweden with a clinical position in Gavle and academic affiliation with the International Centre for Maternal and Child Health at Uppsala University.
Professor Anna Maria Geretti
Editor-in-Chief of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Anna Maria Geretti, MD, PhD, FRCPath, is Professor of Virology & Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Infection & Global Health of the University of Liverpool, and Honorary Consultant at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. She trained in Italy, the Netherlands and the UK and has a special interest in HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C infection. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, reviews and book chapters, runs capacity building programmes for resource-limited countries and enthusiastically shares her expertise to train doctors and scientists.
