Nick Black

{{Short description|British physician and health services researcher}} {{Use dmy dates|date= June 2017}} {{Use British English|date= June 2017}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Sir | name = | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRCPE|FRCS|size=100%}} | image = | caption = | birth_name = Nicholas Andrew Black | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1951}} | birth_place = UK | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = University of Birmingham | occupation = Health services researcher | employer = GoodUnited | website = {{URL|https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/black.nick}} }}

'''Sir Nicholas Andrew Black''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRCPE|FRCS}} (born 1951) is a British physician and health services researcher.

Black studied medicine at the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1974, worked for Save the Children Fund (UK) in Nepal for 18 months before undertaking a doctorate and training in public health at Oxford from 1978 to 1982.<ref name="HoMBRG">{{cite Q|Q29581737}}</ref> He was then a lecturer at the Open University for three years, writing a distance-learning course 'Health and Disease' with biologists, sociologists and economists.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

In 1985, he obtained a position at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, becoming chair in health services research there in 1995.<ref name="HoMBRG" /> He established and co-edited the ''Journal of Health Services Research and Policy''<ref name="TNT1">{{cite web|title=Professor Nick Black|url=https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/person/professor-nick-black|publisher=The Nuffield Trust|accessdate=21 June 2017|date=5 January 2017}}</ref> from 1996 until 2017.

He published in 2006 ''Walking London's Medical History'', a book of seven walks through London telling the story of how health services and health care policy developed. Since 2016 he has created two GPS guided walks on VoiceMap.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2017 New Year Honours for his services to healthcare research.<ref name="LSHTM1">{{cite web|title=Knighthood for Nick Black|url=https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2016/knighthood_nick_black.html|publisher=London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine|accessdate=21 June 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 61803 |date=31 December 2016 |pages=N1–N37 |supp=y}}</ref> He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh (FRCP Edin) and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England (FRCS Engl).<ref name="HoMBRG" />

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== External links == * {{Official website}} * {{History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group ID}}

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