Allyson Pollock

Prof Allyson Pollock trained in medicine and is a public health physician and academic. She is professor of public health research and policy in the Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry in Queen Mary University of London.

She was previously director of the Centre for International Public Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh and Assistant Principal. Prior to that she was head of the Public Health Policy Unit at University College London, and director of research and development at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Her research interests include rational access and use of medicines from a public health perspective, pharmaceutical regulation; and child and sports injury and trauma epidemiology.

Prof Pollock is well known for her active commitment, spanning more than two decades, to promoting universal public health care in the UK. She and her colleagues have written extensively on marketisation and reform in health and public services in the UK and internationally, particularly on the private finance initiative. Her books include NHS plc: the privatisation of our health care (Verso) and Tackling rugby: what every parent should know (Verso).

She is currently a member of the Council of British Medical Association and also the BMA International Committee and BMA Public Health Committee. Her new book The NHS reclaimed will be published this year as will a new book on pharmaceuticals.