MCR Mentoring Rep
Nason Maani is a Lecturer in Inequalities and Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh’s Global Health Policy Unit, in the School of Social and Political Science, where he serves as programme director for the MSc in Global Health Policy. He has a background in biomedical science and public health, and is interested in mixed methods policy research focusing on the commercial determinants of health, seeking to describe the mechanisms through which commercial actors affect health inequalities, knowledge and public discourse. He is a co-editor of the Oxford University Press textbook “the Commercial Determinants of Health”, and the host of Money Power Health, a podcast series discussing the social and commercial forces that shape health. He is a senior Harkness Fellow, and a member of the Royal Society of the Arts.