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Sally Sheard

Professor Sally Sheard
BA PhD

Executive Dean, Institute of Population Health & Andrew Geddes and John Rankin Professor of Modern History
Institute of Population Health

Professional Activities

Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics (2008 -15)

Honorary Member, Faculty of Public Health (2008 - )

Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (2015)

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2019 - )

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2019 - )

Guest curator and adviser, National Museums Liverpool (1996 - )

Strategic Management Council member, Liverpool Medical Institution (2008-2017)

Arts Development Group member, Royal Liverpool Hospital University NHS Trust (2015 - )

External examining:
Imperial College London (UGT and PGT 2011-2014)
University of Manchester (UGT and PGT 2015-18)
University of Warwick (PhD 2014)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (PhD 2017)
Institute for Historical Research, London (PhD 2018)

Conference Roles

  • 'A Creature of its Time: the British NHS', keynote lecture, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Norwegian Directorate of Health and Norwegian Medical Society, 2011 - present)
  • 'The Rise of the Global Health Consultant', keynote lecture, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (World Health Organisation, Geneva, 2008 - present)
  • 'Health at the Gateway: historical risk management in port communities', keynote lecture, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Institut Pasteur, Paris, 2005)

Examination Roles

  • Imperial College, University of London, UK, Medical Humanities (UG, 2010 - 2014)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Director of the Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences of Health. Medicine and Technology (2015 - 2019)

Organisations I have been associated with

  • Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust (2013 - present)
  • Liverpool Medical Institution (2006 - present)
  • Liverpool Creative Health and Well-being Network (2004 - 2008)

Professional Body Memberships

  • Society for Social History of Medicine (Member)
  • European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (Member)
  • Liverpool Medical History Society (Council Member)
  • Faculty of Public Health (Honorary Member, 2008 - present)