Tim Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7104-6431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 366 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
(Re)considering Discourses of Risk and Responsibility Through the Lens of Healthism
Public health crises such as the global epidemic of so‐called ‘lifestyle diseases’ are often framed as the failure of individuals to make the right health‐related choices or to take responsibility for managing their bodies in ways that promote the health of present and future selves. Through his early writings on healthism, Robert Crawford was one amongst a number of scholars who documented the emergence of neoliberal logics of self‐care in respo…
Caring for children with SAM
This paper draws from qualitative research undertaken with the mothers and primary caregivers of children aged under 5 years old and in recovery from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), as well as other community members, across three study sites in Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The paper highlights how nutrition-related stigma is constructed and enacted in complex ways, by multiple actors and across diverse settings. Adopting an intersectional appro…
Convalescing from SAM
It is widely recognised that children recovering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), remain vulnerable to risk of death following hospital discharge due to a wide range of biological and social factors. In light of this heightened risk, we report here on a qualitative study which aimed to better understand the caring contexts that children recovering from SAM were recuperating in within the high density urban and suburban districts of Harare, Z…
Rethinking international financing for health to better respond to future pandemics
International financing for health has been high on the political and global health agenda since COVID-19. The recent launch of the Pandemic Fund represents the first consolidated effort of the international community to mobilise additional voluntary financial resources for the purpose of strengthening global efforts in pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPR). Against such a dynamic landscape, building on recent critiques and new pol…
Formulation and acceptability of local nutrient‐dense foods for young children
Stunting affects almost one-quarter of children globally, leading to reduced human capacity and increased long-term risk of chronic disease. Despite intensive infant and young child feeding (IYCF) interventions, many children do not meet their requirements for essential nutrients. This study aimed to assess the feasibility of implementing an IYCF intervention utilizing nutrient-dense powders from egg, biofortified sugar beans and Moringa oleifera…
Territories, politics and governance of the Covid-19 pandemic
As a major public health and socio-ecological crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic has raised significant challenges, arguably affecting the everyday life of most individuals on the planet. The pandemic has transformed social relationships within families, communities and nations, awakening a spirit of care and reciprocity as well as engendering new mechanisms of control and surveillance to confront the dialectic of life and death. This editorial introd…
Gender, caring work, and the embodiment of kufungisisa
This paper analyses the findings from qualitative interviews conducted as part of a cross-disciplinary pilot study into the efficacy of the Friendship Bench for promoting mental health amongst rural women living in Shurugwi District, Zimbabwe. Informed by UNICEF's nurturing care framework, the pilot study hypothesised that women's caring capabilities would be enhanced if a cost-effective intervention could be found for those suffering from common…
Locating the role of informality in global health security
The Friendship Bench as a brief psychological intervention with peer support in rural Zimbabwean women
VHW-delivered problem-solving therapy and peer-support was acceptable and showed promising results in this pilot evaluation, leading to quantitative and qualitative improvements in mental health among rural Zimbabwean women. Scale-up of the Friendship Bench in rural areas would help close the treatment gap for common mental disorders
The Impact of Over-the-Top Services on Preferences for Mobile Services
Although mobile phone subscription rates in Nigeria have grown significantly since mobile service inception in the early 2000s, over half of the population remains unconnected. As the focus of governments and mobile carriers shifts to driving Internet adoption, mobile phone serving as a facilitating condition for the use of traditional and over-the-top (OTT) services is likely to have multiple implications. Using conjoint analysis, this article p…
When Being Connected is not Enough
The Internet has been identified as a tool to overcome poverty; by improving communication, facilitating innovation, and driving economic growth. However, as seen in studies on the benefits of Internet adoption and use, the welfare effect of technology is not only based on its adoption, but also from the type of use. In this study, we identified distinct classifications and predictors of Internet activities (second-level digital divide) and Inter…
Setting the agenda for social science research on the human microbiome
The human microbiome is an important emergent area of cross, multi and transdisciplinary study. The complexity of this topic leads to conflicting narratives and regulatory challenges. It raises questions about the benefits of its commercialisation and drives debates about alternative models for engaging with its publics, patients and other potential beneficiaries. The social sciences and the humanities have begun to explore the microbiome as an o…
They say it's more aggressive in black women”
Recent geographical scholarship has drawn attention to the ways in which the practice of public health constructs particular bodies and populations as “risky.” From a biopolitical perspective, this status of being “at risk” offers the basis for an emergent biosociality, groups brought together by a shared vulnerability to disease, which then forms the basis for both state‐led public health interventions and community‐driven advocacy and support. …
Collaboration between housing, health and social care
Purpose Comment on the contribution that housing can make to delivering better health and wellbeing outcomes. More specifically, the purpose of this paper is threefold: summarise recent evidence that makes the case for housing in helping to address health and social care issues; comment on the challenges and opportunities of partnership working; and describe examples of interesting and innovative local joint provision. Design/methodology/approach…
Producing HIV estimates
BACKGROUND: The development of global HIV estimates has been critical for understanding, advocating for and funding the HIV response. The process of generating HIV estimates has been cited as the gold standard for public health estimates. OBJECTIVE: This paper provides important lessons from an international scientific collaboration and provides a useful model for those producing public health estimates in other fields. DESIGN: Through the compil…
Fear, family and the placing of emotion
Reducing energy consumption in cold stores using a freely available mathematical model
Bodies Across Borders
Historically organised at a local or national scale, the fields of medicine and healthcare are being radically transformed by new communication, transport and biotechnologies creating, in the process, a genuinely globalised sphere of biomedical production and consumption. This emerging market is characterised by the circulation of bodily materials (tissues, organs and bio-information), patients and expertise across what traditionally have been re…
Evaluating a DVD promoting breast cancer awareness among black women aged 25–50 years in East London
BACKGROUND: The mean age of presentation for breast cancer among black women is substantially earlier than their white counterparts. Black women also present with adverse prognostic factors that have major clinical implications, including lower survival. To pilot the use of a 6 min DVD on breast cancer in young (under 50 years) black women, to raise awareness and examine the impact of the DVD on increased consultation and referral rates among the…
Engineering the Brain
Neural engineering technologies such as implanted deep brain stimulators and brain‐computer interfaces represent exciting and potentially transformative tools for improving human health and well‐being. Yet their current use and future prospects raise a variety of ethical and philosophical concerns. Devices that alter brain function invite us to think deeply about a range of ethical concerns—identity, normality, authority, responsibility, privacy,…
Contrasting approaches to ‘doing’ family meals
Family meals, as acts of domestic food provisioning, are shaped by the competing influences of household resources, food preferences and broader cultural norms around dietary practices. The place of children's food tastes in family meal practices is particularly complex. Food tastes stand in a reciprocal relationship with family food practices: being both an influence on and a product of them. This paper explores how parents think about and respo…
What does it mean to be a ‘picky eater’? A qualitative study of food related identities and practices
Food security and health in Canada
In recent years, food crises have heightened awareness of food security vulnerabilities even in rich nations. However, the extent to which various issues related to food security (such as consistent access to nutritious food in conditions which maintain human dignity) have been incorporated into Canadian policy and practice is not well documented. This article draws on a number of sources—including policy documents and media reports—to explore ho…
The politics of non-communicable diseases in the global South
In this paper, we explore the emergence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as an object of political concern in and for countries of the global South. While epidemiologists and public health practitioners and scholars have long expressed concern with the changing global distribution of the burden of NCDs, it is only in more recent years that the aetiology, politics and consequences of these shifts have become an object of critical social scienti…
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
No AccessEducationJul 2010Design Thinking for Social InnovationAuthors/Editors: Tim Brown, Jocelyn WyattTim BrownSearch for more papers by this author, Jocelyn WyattSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1020-797X_12_1_29SectionsAboutView ChaptersPDF (0.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Designers have traditionally focused on enchancing the look and functionality of pr…
Closing Barts
Debates concerning the nature and extent of hospital provision in London, England are longstanding. Reviews in the 1990s have focused on a perceived over-provision and recommended rationalisation. This paper explores the representations of place which emerged in the discourses surrounding the possible closure of St Bartholomew's Hospital (Barts), London. Through a discourse analysis of official and unofficial reports, Parliamentary debates, press…
Aids, risk and social governance
Vulnerability is universal
Imperial or postcolonial governance? Dissecting the genealogy of a global public health strategy
Placing geographies of public health
Following the move to a ‘post–medical’ geography, a large amount of research has come to focus on public health issues. This paper explores these current geographies of public health and argues for the development of a more critical perspective. In particular, it draws on commentary that has emerged out of debates that have taken place within a body of literature usually identified as the critical ‘new’ public health. The paper goes on to argue t…
Critical Interventions in Global Health
The rise of the term global health reflects a concern with rethinking the meaning of health in the context of globalization. As a field of practice, however, global health renders problems, populations, and spaces visible and amenable to intervention in differentiated ways. Whereas some problems are considered to be global, others are not. Some are considered to be matters of global security, whereas others lack this designation and remain in the…
The politics of non-communicable diseases in the global South
In this paper, we explore the emergence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as an object of political concern in and for countries of the global South. While epidemiologists and public health practitioners and scholars have long expressed concern with the changing global distribution of the burden of NCDs, it is only in more recent years that the aetiology, politics and consequences of these shifts have become an object of critical social scienti…
Geography and global health
In the wake of the report of the World Health Organisation's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health,Closing the gap in a generation(Marmot 2008), this invited commentary considers the scope for geographical research on global health. We reflect on current work and note future possibilities, particularly those that take a critical perspective on the interplay of globalisation, security and health
Governmentality and the Spatialized Discourse of Policy
There have been few studies of spatialized discourse within contemporary healthcare policy‐making. This paper addresses this omission, focusing on the governmental presentation of the little‐studied measures that consolidated the post‐1989 reforms of the NHS in England and Wales, and culminated in the Health Authorities Act 1995. A short section places these measures in context and outlines their main components. An analysis of key documents and …
Towards an understanding of local protest
The aim of this paper is to suggest an analytical framework through which the complex question of hospital closure and local protest can be further explored. The significance of this area of study lies with the extraordinary events that surrounded a campaign to save the Kidderminster General Hospital from downsizing. Whilst the hospital was not saved, the local campaign committee organizing the protest took their fight into the political arena an…
Of plagues, planes and politics
Off the couch and on the move
What does it mean to be a ‘picky eater’? A qualitative study of food related identities and practices
Germs, genes and postcolonial geographies
This paper is inspired by an outbreak of pulmonary tuberculosis in the British East Midlands city of Leicester in 2001. In an era characterized by unprecedented advances in Western medical science an event of this kind might appear surprising. It challenges the feeling of wellbeing held in many Western countries, particularly in relation to diseases that appear both temporally and spatially distant. The paper examines how the event was reported i…
London’s burning
Introduction
This paper introduces the articles that comprise the themed section ‘bodies across borders’ which investigates how the social and spatial dynamics of healthcare provision are being transformed by both neo-liberalization and globalization. The articles demonstrate how the central tenets of neoliberalism: the promotion of individual autonomy as realized through the instrument of consumer choice, the privatization, outsourcing and off-shoring of cor…
Understanding interactions with the food environment
From Siam to New York
Whatever Happened to 'Housing and the Environment
This paper takes stock of the housing and environment debate and argues that much of the optimism of the early 1990s has declined. Our own work is reviewed as an example of the limits of previous approaches to analysing contemporary housing and environmental issues. There appears to be a paradox in that housing organisations are now much more environmentally aware; many are developing green housing projects, and yet the development of theory has …
The making of urban ‘healtheries’
This paper focuses on the conversion of disused burial grounds and cemeteries into gardens and playgrounds in East London from around the 1880s through to the end of the century. In addition to providing further empirical depth, especially relating to the work of philanthropic organisations such as the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, the article brings into the foreground debates regarding the importance of such spaces to the promotion o…
They say it's more aggressive in black women”
Recent geographical scholarship has drawn attention to the ways in which the practice of public health constructs particular bodies and populations as “risky.” From a biopolitical perspective, this status of being “at risk” offers the basis for an emergent biosociality, groups brought together by a shared vulnerability to disease, which then forms the basis for both state‐led public health interventions and community‐driven advocacy and support. …
Food security and health in Canada
In recent years, food crises have heightened awareness of food security vulnerabilities even in rich nations. However, the extent to which various issues related to food security (such as consistent access to nutritious food in conditions which maintain human dignity) have been incorporated into Canadian policy and practice is not well documented. This article draws on a number of sources—including policy documents and media reports—to explore ho…
Territories, politics and governance of the Covid-19 pandemic
As a major public health and socio-ecological crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic has raised significant challenges, arguably affecting the everyday life of most individuals on the planet. The pandemic has transformed social relationships within families, communities and nations, awakening a spirit of care and reciprocity as well as engendering new mechanisms of control and surveillance to confront the dialectic of life and death. This editorial introd…
Differences by degree
Drawing on evidence from the Framingham Heart Study, Christakis and Fowler in their 2007 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine make the claim that obesity spreads in social networks. Whether they are correct in this assertion is neither the concern nor focus of this article. Rather, what is of interest is the subsequent mobilisation of 'contagion' to describe this spread and to account for the emergence of an 'obesity epidemic'…
Local authorities as strategic enablers
Managing crisis and change in health care
London’s burning
Governmentality and the Spatialized Discourse of Policy
There have been few studies of spatialized discourse within contemporary healthcare policy‐making. This paper addresses this omission, focusing on the governmental presentation of the little‐studied measures that consolidated the post‐1989 reforms of the NHS in England and Wales, and culminated in the Health Authorities Act 1995. A short section places these measures in context and outlines their main components. An analysis of key documents and …
Aids, risk and social governance
Closing Barts
Debates concerning the nature and extent of hospital provision in London, England are longstanding. Reviews in the 1990s have focused on a perceived over-provision and recommended rationalisation. This paper explores the representations of place which emerged in the discourses surrounding the possible closure of St Bartholomew's Hospital (Barts), London. Through a discourse analysis of official and unofficial reports, Parliamentary debates, press…
Placing geographies of public health
Following the move to a ‘post–medical’ geography, a large amount of research has come to focus on public health issues. This paper explores these current geographies of public health and argues for the development of a more critical perspective. In particular, it draws on commentary that has emerged out of debates that have taken place within a body of literature usually identified as the critical ‘new’ public health. The paper goes on to argue t…
Potential impact of HIV among IDUs on heterosexual transmission in Asian settings
Whatever Happened to 'Housing and the Environment
This paper takes stock of the housing and environment debate and argues that much of the optimism of the early 1990s has declined. Our own work is reviewed as an example of the limits of previous approaches to analysing contemporary housing and environmental issues. There appears to be a paradox in that housing organisations are now much more environmentally aware; many are developing green housing projects, and yet the development of theory has …
Towards an understanding of local protest
The aim of this paper is to suggest an analytical framework through which the complex question of hospital closure and local protest can be further explored. The significance of this area of study lies with the extraordinary events that surrounded a campaign to save the Kidderminster General Hospital from downsizing. Whilst the hospital was not saved, the local campaign committee organizing the protest took their fight into the political arena an…
From Siam to New York
Germs, genes and postcolonial geographies
This paper is inspired by an outbreak of pulmonary tuberculosis in the British East Midlands city of Leicester in 2001. In an era characterized by unprecedented advances in Western medical science an event of this kind might appear surprising. It challenges the feeling of wellbeing held in many Western countries, particularly in relation to diseases that appear both temporally and spatially distant. The paper examines how the event was reported i…
Off the couch and on the move
America First
The relationship between American filmmaking and broader American culture has been the subject of scrutiny since the medium's commercial diffusion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mandy Merck's edited collection is a novel intervention in this field, examining a practice almost as old – that is, the branding of particular American films through their titles. The history of the American film industry's engagement with notions …
Imperial or postcolonial governance? Dissecting the genealogy of a global public health strategy
A Companion to Health and Medical Geography
This Companion provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles. Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health and medical geography Includes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authors Provides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-discipline Thematically organized sections offer…
Companion to Health and Medical Geography
Of plagues, planes and politics
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
No AccessEducationJul 2010Design Thinking for Social InnovationAuthors/Editors: Tim Brown, Jocelyn WyattTim BrownSearch for more papers by this author, Jocelyn WyattSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1020-797X_12_1_29SectionsAboutView ChaptersPDF (0.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Designers have traditionally focused on enchancing the look and functionality of pr…
Tuberculosis in UK prisoners
AIMS: Prisoners include a disproportionate number of those with social and clinical risk factors for tuberculosis and pose a challenge for control. The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics of prisoners with tuberculosis in order to inform clinical management and control policy. METHODS: Between 2004 and 2007, 205 patients newly diagnosed as having tuberculosis in prison in the UK identified in national surveillance reports wer…
The local impact of global climate change
This paper contributes to extant understandings of media representations of climate change by examining the role of the English regional newspaper press in the transformation and dissemination of climate change discourse. Unlike previous accounts, this paper contends that such newspapers shape public understandings of climate change in ways that have yet to be adequately charted. With this in mind, this paper examines the ways in which global cli…
Vulnerability is universal
Understanding interactions with the food environment
Critical Interventions in Global Health
The rise of the term global health reflects a concern with rethinking the meaning of health in the context of globalization. As a field of practice, however, global health renders problems, populations, and spaces visible and amenable to intervention in differentiated ways. Whereas some problems are considered to be global, others are not. Some are considered to be matters of global security, whereas others lack this designation and remain in the…
Geography and global health
In the wake of the report of the World Health Organisation's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health,Closing the gap in a generation(Marmot 2008), this invited commentary considers the scope for geographical research on global health. We reflect on current work and note future possibilities, particularly those that take a critical perspective on the interplay of globalisation, security and health
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