JUDGES
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Devi Sridhar is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School and holds a Personal Chair in Global Public Health. She is the founding Director of the Global Health Governance Programme and holds a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award. She was previously Associate Professor in Global Health Politics and a Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. She was also a visiting Associate Professor at LMU-Munich and guest lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Public Health Foundation of India. Her books include ‘Preventable - How a pandemic changed the world & how to stop the next one’ (Penguin, 2022), ‘Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?’ (OUP, 2017) and ‘the Battle against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance and the World Bank’ (OUP, 2007) and she has published in Nature, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet and the British Medical Journal. She served on the board of Save the Children UK, on the World Economic Forum Council on the Health Industry and co-chaired the Harvard/LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola. She holds a DPhil and MPhil from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and a B.S. from the University of Miami in the Honors Medical Program. Her work is concentrated in three areas: international health organizations, financing of global public health and developing better tools for priority-setting.
Kelley Swain is a writer and academic whose writing focuses on the history of science and the history of medicine. Swain has been a decade-long art and culture critic for The Lancet medical journals, and has contributed regularly to The Lancet Psychiatry and The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. She holds an MSc in Medical Humanities, and has taught at Imperial College London and Duke University. Swain is also a poet and novelist. Her books include Darwin’s Microscope, Atlantic, Opera di Cera, (poetry); Double the Stars and Ophelia Swam (fiction); The Naked Muse (memoir). In 2016, Swain was one of the first three poets-in-residence at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and contributed new work to the resulting poetry anthology, Guests of Time. Poems from the 10th-anniversary edition of Darwin’s Microscope became part of the song cycle Endless Forms Most Beautiful. Swain is currently a PhD candidate in Art & Health at the University of Tasmania, in Australia, where she lives with her daughter.
Described by Gwyneth Lewis as “a formidable poet”, Michael Hulse is a key figure in contemporary poetry. He has won numerous awards for his poetry, and has translated more than sixty books from the German, among them works by W. G. Sebald, Goethe and Rilke. Reading tours have taken him to Canada, the US and Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, India, and several European countries – his audience for his solo event at Adelaide Writers’ Week 2012 numbered 700. Michael has worked in publishing, television and universities, and in 2020 retired from the University of Warwick, where he taught poetry and comparative literature. His co-edited anthology The Twentieth Century in Poetry was a poetry bestseller, and his most recent collection of poems, Half-Life, was chosen as a Book of the Year by John Kinsella. He co-founded the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine with Professor Donald Singer in 2009.