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Editorial Board

Medical Humanities Editorial Board members have agreed and adhere to the BMJ Editor Roles and Responsibilities guidelines; including our Editor policy on competing interests.
Editor
Brandy Schillace Brandy Schillace Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Author and historian Dr. Brandy Schillace (skil-a-chay) works at the intersections among medicine, history, technology, and literature. Over the past decade, Brandy has served as an assistant professor of literature, managing editor for a medical anthropology journal, and senior research associate and public outreach for a medical museum. As Editor-in-Chief of MH, Brandy provides a platform for conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities, social sciences, global health, and the public. Declaration of Interests: Nothing to Declare
Deputy Editor
Ciara Breathnach Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in History at the University of Limerick. Breathnach is currently Visiting Professor at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge and held a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2022 at New York University AY2022/23. She has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural and health history. University of Limerick Limerick, Ireland
Associate Editors
Rebecca Barr Rebecca Barr Rebecca Anne Barr is a Lecturer in Gender and Sexualities at Jesus College Cambridge whose research focuses on representations of gender and sexuality in eighteenth-century fiction, with a particular emphasis on masculinity. University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK
Rachel Murphy
Rachel Murphy is based in the Department of History at the University of Limerick, where she lectures on the MA History of Family. Her research focuses on aspects of gender and class in nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland.
University of Limerick Limerick, Ireland
Robbie Duschinsky Robbie Duschinsky Dr Robbie Duschinsky is Head of the Applied Social Science Group within the Primary Care Unit and Director of Studies in Sociology at Sidney Sussex College. University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK Sue Spencer Sue Spencer Sue is a former nurse who is now immersed in arts and humanities utilising them and exploring how they can impact on staff and student wellbeing. Sue is a poet and facilitator and regularly runs workshops for harassed professionals. Sue has a particular passion for exploring poetic pedagogy and hopes that this can be developed within the medical humanities. Newcastle University Newcastle, UK
Blog Editor/Associate Editor
Cristina-Hanganu-Bresch Cristina Hanganu-Bresch Saint Joseph University Pennsylvania, USA
Cristina Hanganu-Bresch holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication and is Associate Professor English at St. Joseph’s University. She has researched and published on the history of psychiatry and in particular the discursive mechanisms of psychiatric diagnoses.
Blog Content Editor
Janina Levin University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Blogs Assistant
Chris Pak Swansea University, Swansea, UK
For blog submission enquiries, please contact Editor-in-Chief Dr Brandy Schillace (brandy@bschillace.com) directly.
Film and Media Correspondent
Khalid Ali Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Brighton, UK
Global Health Correspondent
Ayesha Ahmad University College London Medical School London, UK
Editorial Board
Eva Ahren Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden Jacqueline D. Antonovich Muhlenberg College Pennsylvania, USA Annamaria Carusi InterChange Research London, UK Michael Daly RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences Dublin, Ireland Michael DeGeorgia University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Centre Ohio, US Luna Dolezal University of Exeter Exeter, UK Danielle Giffort St. Louis College of Pharmacy Missouri, USA Monica Greco Goldsmith’s University of London London, UK Anne Hudson Jones The University of Texas Texas, US David Jones Harvard University Massachusetts, US
Chisomo Kalinga University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK Daniel Laforest University of Alberta Alberta, Canada Stuart Murray University of Leeds Leeds, UK Henry Ng Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, USA Fran Pheasant-Kelly University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton, UK Laura Salisbury University of Exeter Exeter, UK Neil Vickers Kings College London London, UK Jaipreet Virdi University of Delaware Delaware, US Shelley Wall University of Toronto Toronto, Canada Angela Woods Durham University Durham, UK

Publishing Team

Publishing Assistant: Simran Kang Publisher: Alice Shuttleworth Head of Portfolio: Richard Sands