Books
Selected articles, book chapters and other writing
Covid-19 related (including older pieces)
– Inverardi-Ferri, C. and Brown, T. (2022) ‘Territories, politics and governance of the Covid-19 pandemic‘. Territory, Politics, Governance 10(6), 751-758.
– with Calkin, S., Holden, K., Reid-Henry, S., Taylor, S. ‘How to have theory in a pandemic: Critically reflecting on the discourses of Covid-19’, in Andrews, A., Pearce, J., Crooks, V., Messina, J. (Eds) COVID-19 and Similar Futures: Geographical perspectives, issues and agendas. 2021, pp. 93-99.
– with Budd, L. and Bell, M. ‘Of plagues, planes and politics: controlling the global spread of infectious diseases by air‘. Political Geography 2009.
– Bell, M., Faire, L. ‘Germs, genes and postcolonial geographies: reading the return of tuberculosis to Leicester’, UK, 2001‘. Cultural Geographies 2006.
Nutrition, food and nutrition security, and mental ill-health
– Brown, T., Datta, K., Achieng, C., Kabongo, J., Zulu, J., Bwakura-Dangarembizi, M., Prendergast, A. (2024), ‘Caring for children with SAM: intersectional stories of shame, blame and stigmatisation in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya‘. Global Public Health, 2439883.
– Brown, T., Datta, K., Fernando, S., Kabongo, J., Bwakura-Dangarembizi, M., Prendergast, A. (2024), ‘Convalescing from SAM: The pitfalls and possibilities of caring for vulnerable children in Harare’s high-density neighbourhoods‘. Social Science and Medicine 359 (October), 117279.
– Datta, K., Brown, T., Mutambasere, T. (2024) ‘‘Road runners’ and Fanta: Intersectional cultural food in/security among Zimbabwean migrants living in UK cities‘. Global Food Security 43, 100805.
– Chagwena, D.T., Fernando, S., Tavengwa, N.V., Sithole, S., Nyachowe, C., Njovo, H., Datta, K., Brown, T., Humphrey, J.H., Prendergast, A., Smith, L.E. (2024), ‘Formulation and acceptability of local nutrient‐dense foods for young children: A formative study for the Child Health, Agriculture and Integrated Nutrition (CHAIN) Trial in rural Zimbabwe‘. Maternal & Child Nutrition 20(2), e13605.
– Brown, T., Datta, K. and Fernando, S. ‘Gender, caring work, and the embodiment of kufungisisa: Findings from a global health intervention in Shurugwi District, Zimbabwe‘. Health & Place 2022
– Fernando, S., Brown, T., Datta, K., Chidhanguro, D., Tavengwa, N. V., Chandna, J., … & Prendergast, A. J. ‘The Friendship Bench as a brief psychological intervention with peer support in rural Zimbabwean women: a mixed methods pilot evaluation‘. Global Mental Health 2021
– Rhadhika, G., Mor, S., Viney, M., Hodobo, T., Lello, J. and 16 others ‘A One Health Approach to Child Stunting: Evidence and Research Agenda‘. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2021
– Thompson, C., Cummins, S., Brown, T., Kyle, R. ‘Contrasting approaches to ‘doing’ family meals: a qualitative study of the role of individual choice in shaping home food practices at mealtimes‘. Critical Public Health 2016
– Thompson, C., Cummins, S., Brown, T., Kyle, R. ‘What does it mean to be a ‘picky eater’? A qualitative study of food related identities and practices‘. Appetite 2015
– Wakefield, S., Fredrickson, K.R., Brown, T., ‘Food, security, and health in Canada: Imaginaries, exclusions and possibilities‘. Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien 2015
– Thompson, C., Cummins, S., Brown, T., Kyle, R. ‘Understanding interactions with the food environment: an exploration of supermarket food shopping routines in deprived neighbourhoods‘. Health & Place 2012
Global health geographies
– with Taylor, S. ‘Global health geographies’, in Crooks, V.A., Andrews, G.J., Pearce, J. (Eds) Routledge Handbook of Health Geography. 2018
– with Reubi, D., Herrick, C. ‘Politics of NCDs in the Global South‘. Health & Place 2016
– with Craddock, S., Ingram, A. ‘Critical interventions in global health: governmentality, risk, assemblage‘. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2012
– with Moon, G. ‘Commentary: Global Health and Geography‘. Geographical Journal 2012
– ‘‘Vulnerability is universal’: Considering the place of ‘security’ and ‘vulnerability’ within contemporary global health discourse‘. Social Science and Medicine 2010
– with Bell, M. ‘Imperial or postcolonial governance: dissecting the genealogy of a global public health strategy‘. Social Science and Medicine 2008
– with Bell, M. ‘Off the couch and on the move: global public health and the medicalisation of nature‘. Social Science and Medicine 2007
Critical public health
– with Craddock, S. ‘Urban health: A history’, in Vojnovic, I., Pearson, A.L., Gershim, A., Allen, A., Deverteuil, G. (Eds) Handbook of Global Urban Health. 2019
– with Dyck, I., Greenhough, B., Raven-Ellison, M., Ornstein, M., Duffy, S. ‘“They say it’s more aggressive in black women”: Biosociality, breast cancer, and becoming a population “at risk”‘. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2019
– with Dyck, I., Greenhough, B., Raven-Ellison, M., Dembinsky, M., Ornstein, M., Duffy, S. ‘Fear, family and the placing of emotion: Black women’s responses to a breast cancer awareness intervention‘. Social Science and Medicine 2017
– with Greenhough, B., Duffy, S., Dyck, I., Ornstein, M. and 4 others ‘Evaluating a DVD promoting breast awareness amongst Black women aged 25-50 in East London‘. Journal of Environment and Community Health 2017
– ‘Difference by degrees: fatness and the problem with contagious metaphors‘. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 2014
– ‘The making of ‘urban healtheries’ (Brabazon): the transformation of cemeteries and burial grounds in late-Victorian East London‘. Journal of Historical Geography 2013
– with Duncan, C. ‘Placing geographies of public health‘. Area 2002
– ‘AIDS, risk and the governance of social space‘. Social Science and Medicine 2000
– Duncan, C. ‘London’s burning: spaces for smoking, spaces for health‘. Health and Place 2000
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Professor Tim Brown 