Discipline(s):
History, Anthropology, Epidemiology, Bioethics
Area(s) of Expertise:
Information Aggregation, Visualization, Infectious Disease, Emerging Diseases, Biosecurity Health Inequalities, Public Health, Population Health, Public Health Ethics, History of Medicine
E-Mail:
nicholas.king@mcgill.ca
Background:
Nick King is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Studies in Medicine, and associate member of Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University; and an adjunct professor in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University. He holds a Ph.D. in the history of science and a Masters degree in medical anthropology from Harvard University. Dr. King conducts research in four areas: (1) Public health ethics. Previous and current research includes work on the ethics of biosecurity, disaster response, and public health preparedness; ethical issues in responses to emerging diseases and the development of antimicrobial resistant pathogens. (2) Health inequalities. With colleagues in the Department of Epidemiology, this new work investigates the role of ethical judgments in the statistical measurement and assessment of causality in research on health inequalities. (3) Aggregation of complex health information using prediction markets, crowdsourcing and open-source methods.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Nicholas King's available publications in PubMed.
