# Nick Black

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{{Short description|British physician and health services researcher}}
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| birth_name = Nicholas Andrew Black
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'''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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Knight_Bachelor) in the [2017 New Year Honours](/source/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](/source/London_School_of_Hygiene_%26_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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