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Ted Schrecker is Emeritus Professor of Global Health Policy at Newcastle University. A Canadian political scientist, he moved to the United Kingdom in 2013 to work first at Durham University and then at Newcastle; he returned to Canada in retirement in November, 2022. For more than 20 years, his research has addressed issues related to health inequalities within and among nations, with a focus on social determinants of health. Among his key publications are the co-authored books Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health (2004) and How Politics Makes Us Sick: Neoliberal Epidemics (2015). His work has been published in journals including Social Science & Medicine, Health & Place, Globalization and Health, Health Policy and Planning and Global Public Health. From 2005-2008 he coordinated the knowledge network on globalization that supported the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health, and from 2014 to 2019 he served as co-editor of the Journal of Public Health.