SCHOOL FOR POLICY STUDIES

Lesley Doyal

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Personal profile

Lesley Doyal has published widely in the fields of health policy and the sociology of health and illness. Her work has been translated into many languages and she is frequently invited to speak at international conferences. She is especially interested in the links between gender studies and health studies and in the interface between biological and social sciences. Her current research and consultancy activities are focussed mainly on gender, health and health care and she has worked on these issues for the World Health Organisation, the United Nations, the Global Forum for Health Research and the Commonwealth Secretariat. She is also a visiting fellow in community medicine of the University of Cape Town. Alongside her academic work she is also engaged in advocacy on a number of global health issues. She is a trustee of Womankind Worldwide and currently Chairs its International Programmes Committee.

Professor Doyal and colleagues in the Health and Social Care Centre are currently working on gender equity in health service delivery and have carried out a number of consultations in this field.

Research and teaching interests

International health policy; trends in the health care division of labour; gender, health and health care; gender and development.

Publications

95638  Doyal, L. 'Sex, gender and medicine: The case of the NHS', in Kelleher, D, Gabe, J and Williams, G (Eds.), Challenging Medicine (Second Edition), (pp. 146-161), Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0415389542

104683  Chun H, Doyal, L, Payne, S, Il-Cho S & Kim IH. 'Understanding Women, Health and Social Change: The Case of South Korea', International Journal of Health Services, 36(3), (pp. 575-592), 2006. ISSN: 0020-7314

92369  Doyal, L. 'Putting gender and health into globalisation debates:new perspectives and old challenges', in Kickbusch, I, Hartwig, K & List, J (Eds.), Globalisation, Women and Health in the 21st Century, (pp. -), Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN: 1403970319

92039  Doyal, L & Anderson, J. ''My fear is to fall in love again…' How HIV-positive African women survive in London', Social Science and Medicine, 60 (8), (pp. 1729-1738), 2005. ISSN: 0277-9536

92368  Doyal, L. Integrating Gender considerations into Health Policy development: UK Case Study on Coronary Heart Disease, for European Men's Health Development Foundation/WHO-Europe, 2005.

95527  Payne, S, Cameron, AM, Kay, A, Henry, M & Doyal, L. Pharmacy's contribution to tackling health inequalities, for The Pharmacy Practice Research Trust, 2005.