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Joan Benach
Dr. Joan Benach is Senior Researcher, Director of the Health Inequalities Research Group-Employment Conditions Network (GREDS-EMCONET), and Associate Professor of Public Health and Occupational Health in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain). He has appointments at the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, US), the University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada), and the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada). Dr. Benach has a varied academic background that includes a MD, a MPH, and a degree in Preventive Medicine and Public Health in the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He studied Contemporary History in the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Methodology of Social Sciences in the University of Barcelona, Health Policy in the University of California at Berkeley (US), and obtained a PhD in Public Health (Health Policy) in the Johns Hopkins University.
For over two decades, Joan Benach has collaborated extensively with leading social epidemiologists, public health experts, members of social movements, unions, and other social groups in Catalonia, Spain, the European Union, North and Latin America, and other regions of the world. He has been consultant to the WHO and Ministries of Health of countries such as Spain, Chile and Bolivia, having participated in numerous Scientific Commissions. For example, between 1993 and 1996 carried out the Spanish Black Report on Health Inequalities commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Health. Between 2005 and 2008 worked for the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health chairing the Employment Conditions Knowledge Network (EMCONET) that published the Report "Employment, Work, and Health Inequalities: a Global Perspective" (later on published as a book). In 2010 participated in the working committees that developed the Report "Fair Society, Healthy Lives" (Marmot Review), and in the Scientific Commission on Social Determinants of Health Inequalities in Spain.
Main research contributions of Dr. Benach include original analyses on Social Determinants of Health such as Precarious Employment and other Employment Conditions, the health intersections between Social Class, Gender, Migration and Geography, and the development of Health Policy analysis and methods. Dr. Benach has lead many research projects in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere, and has given numerous presentations, seminars, and courses on the aforementioned subjects. He also has extensively developed many Knowledge Transfer (KT) activities including the publication of books and reports on Social Determinants in Health Inequalities (Spain: 1996, 2011; Catalonia: 2003, 2005), and Small---Area mortality Atlases (Spain: 2001, 2012; Catalonia: 2005). He has over 200 publications on these and other public health topics. Other examples of his KT activities include the publication of books for lay people such as "Learning how to look at health: how social inequalities damage our health" (2005), "Health Care is for Sale" (2012), “How they market with your health” (2014), “Without work, rights and fear” (2014), collaborations in leaflets such as “Public Health has no borders” (2010), or “Understanding Health as Human Right” (2014), as well as abundant interventions in the mass media.
For over two decades, Joan Benach has collaborated extensively with leading social epidemiologists, public health experts, members of social movements, unions, and other social groups in Catalonia, Spain, the European Union, North and Latin America, and other regions of the world. He has been consultant to the WHO and Ministries of Health of countries such as Spain, Chile and Bolivia, having participated in numerous Scientific Commissions. For example, between 1993 and 1996 carried out the Spanish Black Report on Health Inequalities commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Health. Between 2005 and 2008 worked for the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health chairing the Employment Conditions Knowledge Network (EMCONET) that published the Report "Employment, Work, and Health Inequalities: a Global Perspective" (later on published as a book). In 2010 participated in the working committees that developed the Report "Fair Society, Healthy Lives" (Marmot Review), and in the Scientific Commission on Social Determinants of Health Inequalities in Spain.
Main research contributions of Dr. Benach include original analyses on Social Determinants of Health such as Precarious Employment and other Employment Conditions, the health intersections between Social Class, Gender, Migration and Geography, and the development of Health Policy analysis and methods. Dr. Benach has lead many research projects in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere, and has given numerous presentations, seminars, and courses on the aforementioned subjects. He also has extensively developed many Knowledge Transfer (KT) activities including the publication of books and reports on Social Determinants in Health Inequalities (Spain: 1996, 2011; Catalonia: 2003, 2005), and Small---Area mortality Atlases (Spain: 2001, 2012; Catalonia: 2005). He has over 200 publications on these and other public health topics. Other examples of his KT activities include the publication of books for lay people such as "Learning how to look at health: how social inequalities damage our health" (2005), "Health Care is for Sale" (2012), “How they market with your health” (2014), “Without work, rights and fear” (2014), collaborations in leaflets such as “Public Health has no borders” (2010), or “Understanding Health as Human Right” (2014), as well as abundant interventions in the mass media.
Christina Maslach
Christina Maslach received her A.B., magna cum laude, in Social Relations from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1967, and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1971. She has conducted research in a number of areas within social and health psychology. However, she is best known as one of the pioneering researchers on job burnout, and the author of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), the most widely used research measure in the burnout field. In addition to numerous articles, her books on this topic include Burnout: The Cost of Caring; the co-edited volume, Professional Burnout: Recent Developments in Theory and Research (with Wilmar Schaufeli); and three publications with Michael Leiter -- The Truth About Burnout ; Preventing Burnout and Building Engagement: A Complete Program for Organizational Renewal ; and Banishing Burnout: Six Strategies for Improving Your Relationship with Work. The two latest publications are based on Professor Maslach's work as a consultant with various organizations on issues of job burnout.
In 1997, Professor Maslach received national recognition as Professor of the Year, an award made by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Among Professor Maslach's other honors are the presidency of the Western Psychological Association, the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Social Sciences Service Award from the University of California at Berkeley , and her selection as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which cited her "For groundbreaking work on the applications of social psychology to contemporary problems").
Professor Maslach is currently the Chair of the Academic Senate. Her prior administrative positions include the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Faculty Assistant (to the Chancellor) on the Status of Women, and Vice-Chair of the Psychology Department. She also chaired the Chancellor's Commission on Responses to a Changing Student Body and wrote its final report, Promoting Student Success at Berkeley.
In 1997, Professor Maslach received national recognition as Professor of the Year, an award made by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Among Professor Maslach's other honors are the presidency of the Western Psychological Association, the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Social Sciences Service Award from the University of California at Berkeley , and her selection as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which cited her "For groundbreaking work on the applications of social psychology to contemporary problems").
Professor Maslach is currently the Chair of the Academic Senate. Her prior administrative positions include the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Faculty Assistant (to the Chancellor) on the Status of Women, and Vice-Chair of the Psychology Department. She also chaired the Chancellor's Commission on Responses to a Changing Student Body and wrote its final report, Promoting Student Success at Berkeley.
Karina Nielsen
Karina Nielsen is Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology in the Employment Systems and Institutions Group in the Norwich Business School, the University of East Anglia UK, a research affiliate at the CPH-NEW, USA and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and Honorary Professor at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research interests lie within the area of new ways of working and job redesign. She is particularly interested in the evaluation of organizational interventions and ways to develop methods to understand how and why such interventions succeed or fail.
She has published more than 100 articles, books and book chapters in international outlets. She is currently on the editorial boards of Human Relations, The Leadership Quarterly and Journal of Business and Psychology and is an associate editor of Work & Stress. She has published her work in journals such as Human Relations, Work & Stress, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and Journal of Organizational Behavior.
She is currently the principal investigator on the “Out of sight, out of mind project” on good occupational health and safety leadership in distributed workers funded by the Institution of Occupational Health and Safety (https://www.uea.ac.uk/norwich-business-school/research/iosh-project), a co-investigator on the “What effects does implementation have on health-promotion program results? – a collaborative project in four Nordic countries”, led by Karolinska Institute and funded by The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), the lead for the work and wellbeing theme of the Employment Systems and Institutions Group led Work, Learning and Wellbeing Evidence Programme of the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council What Works Well-being Centre (http://whatworkswellbeing.org).
She has published more than 100 articles, books and book chapters in international outlets. She is currently on the editorial boards of Human Relations, The Leadership Quarterly and Journal of Business and Psychology and is an associate editor of Work & Stress. She has published her work in journals such as Human Relations, Work & Stress, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and Journal of Organizational Behavior.
She is currently the principal investigator on the “Out of sight, out of mind project” on good occupational health and safety leadership in distributed workers funded by the Institution of Occupational Health and Safety (https://www.uea.ac.uk/norwich-business-school/research/iosh-project), a co-investigator on the “What effects does implementation have on health-promotion program results? – a collaborative project in four Nordic countries”, led by Karolinska Institute and funded by The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), the lead for the work and wellbeing theme of the Employment Systems and Institutions Group led Work, Learning and Wellbeing Evidence Programme of the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council What Works Well-being Centre (http://whatworkswellbeing.org).