Martin Gulliford is Professor of Public Health in the School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences at King's College London. He qualified in medicine from the University of Cambridge and University College Hospital, London and trained in public health and health services research at Guy's and St Thomas' Medical Schools, London. He has worked in the National Health Service in England and spent time in teaching and research in Trinidad.
Martin's current research focuses on epidemiology as applied to public health and health services research. He co-edited the Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health and is author of many research publications.
Edmund Jessop worked for the NHS in England from 1979 to 2018. He qualified in medicine at Oxford University and trained in community medicine in the north of England. He was Director of Public Health in West Surrey for seven years and from 2002 onwards worked at national level in England with the national specialist commissioning team. He has extensive teaching experience and was co-editor of the Journal of Public Health from 1998 - 2007.