Emeritus Professor of Medical Sociology

 

 

Contact details:

Tel:	+ 44 207 628 1339
Email:	s.m.hillier@qmul.ac.uk
Address:	Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Abernethy Building 2 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, United Kingdom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Sheila Hillier studied at the London School of Economics and The London Hospital Medical College (PhD 1986).She was appointed Professor of Medical Sociology in 1992, the first sociologist to be appointed to a chair in a UK medical school. During 1992 and 1996 she was visiting Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai.   Currently Visiting Professor at the School of Public Health, Chinese University Hong Kong, she is also Professor Emeritus at Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and a Fellow of Queen Mary College. For the last decade she has also followed another career as a published poet.

 

Research Activity

Sheila Hillier’s main research interest is in the social and political factors enabling good health.  She has always considered this question in an international context. Her interest in health care organization has led to an involvement with the Peoples Republic of China which has lasted for over 30 years. The issue of migrant health in times of economic expansion or depression has formed the basis for her work on ethnic minority health in the UK. She has always adopted an interdisciplinary approach, working with clinicians, especially in psychiatry, epidemiologists, development economists and political scientists and is committed to the use of qualitative research methods as an equal research tool to quantitative work in the field of health care. Lately she has been involved in research into the social factors involved in the development of HIV/AIDS in China.

 

Key Publications

• Hillier SM and Jewell JA Health Care and Traditional Medicine in China 1800-1982. London. Routledge (re-issue of China Classics Series) 452pp + pictures and Index.  2007
• Ma  Shao-Jun, Hillier SM, Kong-lai Zhang, JJ Shen. Lu Fan, Liu Miu, Jin Chen-gang.  Country Responses: Asia, HIV in China. in  Beck EJ, Mays N, Whiteside A, Zuniga J The HIV Pandemic: local and global implications Oxford.  Oxford University Press 2007 pp 282-300
• Kelleher D and Hillier SM   Researching Cultural Differences in Health.  London. Routledge 237pp + index. 1996
• Hillier SM, Xiang Zheng.  The Modernisation and Marketisation of the Health Care System; health policy changes and their consequences since 1979.  The Jiangxi Study Social Science and Medicine 41 8  1057-1064 1995

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