Judith Green BSc MSc PhD

Reader in Sociology of Health

I am a medical sociologist, with degrees in anthropology and medical sociology. Before joining LSHTM in 1996, I held posts at South Bank University, the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at UMDS (Guy's), where I completed a PhD on the sociology of accidents, and the Department of General Practice at King's College School of Medicine.

I currently edit Critical Public Health, an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes a broad range of critical research and commentary on and for public health, and recently co-edited (with Ron Labonte) a collection of articles from the journal, Critical Perspectives in Public Health.

Affiliation

Teaching

My main responsibility is to develop capacity in qualitative approaches to health research for students at LSHTM, research colleagues and collaborators. I contribute to several in-house modules (inlcuding Principles of Social Research, Qualitative Methodologies and Sociology of Health), co-edited (with John Browne) the DBL text-book Principles of Social Research and run training workshops in qualitative methodologies. I co-authored, with Nicki Thorogood, Qualitative Methods for Health Research (Sage, 2009), a textbook aimed at health professionals using qualitative methods.

Research

My primary research interests are in the sociology of health service organisation and delivery (particularly the development of qualitative methodology in this area) and sociological research of determinants of health and health inequality, particularly on transport and health.

In the area of health service organisation, current and recent funded research invovlement includes studies on: workforce in UK general practice; changing concepts of professionalism; methods to access the views of hard-to-reach communities and the modernisation of critical care. Methodological research includes work on the transferability of qualitative methodologies in low and middle income countries.  We have recently launched a web site, 'Using qualitative methods' to introduce qualitative methods to those doing health systems/services research. 

On determinants of health, I am part of the School for Public Health Research, and have specific research interests in transport and health, particularly in using sociological work on mobilities to shed light on public health issues arising from transport policies and choices. Current research includes studies of inequalities in road injury, transport policies, and the sociology of active transport modes. The 'On the Buses' project is evaluating the impact of free bus travel for young people on public health.  

Current research degree students working with me are researching a range of topics in the sociology of health, including: decisions to take statins (Louisa Polak), masculinities in Trinidad (Oscar Ocho), discourses of reconfiguration (Lorelei Jones), social networks in Nairobi informal settlements (Julie Evans), interdiscipinary science-in-action in an air pollution project (Emma Garnett) and the role of exposure in explaining inequalities in road injury risk (Rebecca Steinbach).

Research areas

  • Health services research
  • Public health
  • Risk

Disciplines

  • Sociology

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Injuries

Other interests

  • Accidents
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