As part of our editorial process, every new collection is subjected to review by leading academics and experts. We would like to thank the following people for their advice and support:
Christopher Day is Head of Modern Domestic Records at The National Archives. He specialises in nineteenth century public health and Home Office records.
Sandra Hempel is a freelance writer, editor, and publisher, specialising in health and social issues. She covers health policy and services as well as clinical subjects. She is a member of the Medical Journalists Association and the Guild of Health Writers. She is the author of several books. Her most recent is “The Atlas of Disease: Mapping Deadly Epidemics and Contagion from the Plague to the Zika Virus” (2018).
Robert Hicks
Director of the F.C. Wood Institute for the History of MedicineThe College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Robert D. Hicks directs the F.C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, where he also holds the William Maul Measey Chair. Prior to this role, he was the director of the College’s Historical Medical Library and Mütter Museum.
Mark Honigsbaum is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at City, University of London. He is a medical historian and journalist with wide-ranging interests, encompassing health, science, the media, and contemporary culture. He is the author of “The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris” (2019).
Howard Markel is a physician, medical educator, and historian of medicine. He is the George E. Wantz Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books. His most recent is “The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix” (2021).
Alexander Medcalf is Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at the University of York. He is a historian of visual culture, specialising in public health and medicine, marketing, and transport in the twentieth century. He is the author of “Railway Photographic Advertising in Britain, 1900–1939” (2018).
Paul Slack is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History at Linacre College, the University of Oxford. He has researched the history of disease, especially plague, extensively. He is the author of “The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England” (2014).
Jonathan Kennedy is Reader in Politics and Global Health at the Centre for Public Health and Policy at Queen Mary University of London. His research uses insights from sociology, political economy, anthropology, and international relations to analyse important public health problems. He is the author of “Pathogenesis: How Germs Made History” (2023).
