Judith Green

Judith GREEN

Judith GREEN is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures & Environments of Health at the University of Exeter, UK.  She has over 30 years’ experience of teaching and research in the fields of primary care and public health, with previous posts at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and King’s College London. Her research interests are at the intersections of social science and public health.  Throughout her career she has contributed to interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and improving health and health equity.  This has involved research in a range of topics, with a particular focus on: evaluations of the public health impacts of environmental interventions (such as in transport systems); methodology; risk; and health professions.  Judith has published widely, with over 150 papers in peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and books including the co-authored textbook Qualitative Methods for Health Research (Sage, 2018), and the co-edited Critical Perspectives in Public Health (Routledge, 2008).  She is currently co-editor of the journal Critical Public Health, a contributing editor to the BSA Cost of Living blog, and has served on the editorial boards and committees of journals including the BMJ and Sociology of Health and Illness.