Interview with Alan Gibbons, Labour Party Activist

The pioneer, the activist: an interview with Trevor Hancock.

Ross Graham (RG): What attracted you to public health? Trevor Hancock (TH): After four years of family practice, I was tired of patching people up and sending them back into the war. I wanted to go upstream. This interest was also triggered by my involvement in ecological politics and my work at a health centre in Etobicoke where the majority of patients were on some form of social support. The...

Views of a health policy activist: a conversation with Henry Waxman. Interview by John K. Iglehart.

Gibbons

What is a gibbon? Gibbons (Hylobatidae) are small arboreal apes that are predominantly found in tropical and sub-tropical forests of South East Asia, South China, Bangladesh and North-East India. True brachiators — animals that swing from tree to tree — these apes are often described as ‘acrobats of the forest’, leaping up to 8 metres between branches and reaching speeds of approximately 56 kil...

JALDA's Interview with Peter Mühlhäusler

Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...

Video Q&A: Tobacco-related mortality: past, present and future. An interview with Alan Lopez

In this video Q & A, we talk to Alan Lopez about the global burden of tobacco-related mortality. Prof Lopez highlights how this epidemic emerged in the past, and how it is likely to progress in the future. He also discusses ways in which countries that currently have few or no tobacco-control policies in place can apply measures to curtail premature mortality.