The cover of our book entitled PEAK PHARMA: TOWARD A NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH.
In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...
Thanks for the shout-out Maxim!
Fascinated by #ElizabethHolmes of #Theranos and her wild journey from digital health entrepreneur heroine to villaine and #Girlboss? Asking yourself in whose interest it all happened? So were we!
@keanbirch.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social you might like this one
Want to get a sense of what our collective volume "Market Studies: Mapping Theorizing and Impacting Market Action" is all about?
Then read this blog at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Thanks to co-editor Neil Pollock for driving it!
cambridgeblog.org/2025/02/beyo...
Is there room for #Care in #markets? My concluding chapter (co-authored with Olya Loza) of our newly published #MarketStudies volume, argues that there is - but that we as academics and practitioners must contribute to highlighting and amplifying this care.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I'm a bit star-struck now 🤩
@philiproscoe.bsky.social it does exist!! It live, IRL and all!! The word doorstopper doesn't even capture half of its intellectual (and material) heft.
#MarketStudies
Only career advice I was ever given by my male colleagues: "Don't ever mention your kids again if you want to be taken serious around here!"....
Ongolly's thesis "Contextual Advocacy in Bridging the Last Mile Gap in Access to Essential Medicines: A Comparative Study in Lower and Higher-Income Settings" is testament to his own resilience but also to that of healthcare workers and volunteers supporting people living with #HIV/AIDS.
Susi Geiger and Dr Fernandos Ongolly at his PhD graduation
Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to see my #PhDstudents and postdocs succeed. I'm particularly proud of Dr Fernandos Ongolly who arrived into Ireland from Kenya to start his PhD three weeks before the pandemic lock-downs started. Quite a journey we had but the celebrations were all the bigger
Completely with you! My natural tendency has always been to hide and read quietly - good thing that the day job allows me to do this a lot of the time!
Thanks @taschn.bsky.social ! So glad to spot so many friendly and familiar faces already on this new schoolyard! I think I'll like it around here 😊
Entering a new social network feels a bit like entering a new schoolyard for the first time... so do folks around here just post everything they post here also on the network formerly known as Twitter or have they weaned themselves off it? Giving myself until the New Year to make the transition...