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Matthew Harris is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine, Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Director of Postgraduate Taught Courses in the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, and Theme Lead for Innovation and Evaluation in the NIHR Northwest London Applied Research Collaborative, UK.
Matthew has lived and worked in Brazil as a family doctor, in Ethiopia working for the WHO in immunization programmes, and in Mozambique as an HIV Technical Advisor, and served for two years as a Global Health Policy advisor to the UK government.
In 2014 he was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowship to research Reverse Innovation in the US as a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at New York University, under the mentorship of Prof James Macinko (UCLA) and Dr Don Goldmann (Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston). In 2018 he was awarded an Imperial College London Presidents Excellence in Teaching and Learning grant to advance the Reverse Innovation agenda in higher education by ‘decolonizing’ the curriculum of the Masters in Public Health. In 2019 he was appointed co-Editor of the Reverse Innovation series in the BioMed Central journal Globalization and Health.
Matthew has lived and worked in Brazil as a family doctor, in Ethiopia working for the WHO in immunization programmes, and in Mozambique as an HIV Technical Advisor, and served for two years as a Global Health Policy advisor to the UK government.
In 2014 he was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowship to research Reverse Innovation in the US as a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at New York University, under the mentorship of Prof James Macinko (UCLA) and Dr Don Goldmann (Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston). In 2018 he was awarded an Imperial College London Presidents Excellence in Teaching and Learning grant to advance the Reverse Innovation agenda in higher education by ‘decolonizing’ the curriculum of the Masters in Public Health. In 2019 he was appointed co-Editor of the Reverse Innovation series in the BioMed Central journal Globalization and Health.
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