Robert H. Blank

Robert H. Blank, PhD, (University of Maryland) is Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is also a regular Guest Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, a Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University, and a Research Scholar at New College of Florida. His previous academic positions include Chair of Public Policy at Brunel University in West London, Professor and Associate Director of the Program for Biosocial Research at Northern Illinois University, and Chair of Political Science at the University of Idaho. He has also held residential fellowships at Vanderbilt University, Stanford University, Indiana University and the Medical University of South Carolina, and Fulbright Lectureships in Taiwan (1976-77 and 2007) and New Zealand (1984). He has taught, lectured and written widely in the areas of comparative health policy, medical technology assessment, neuropolicy, genetic and reproductive policy, and biomedical ethics/policy. Among the many books and journal articles he has written or edited are Rationing Medicine (Columbia University Press), Regulating Reproduction (Columbia University Press), Biomedical Policy (Nelson-Hall), Brain Policy (Georgetown University Press), The Price of Life (Columbia University Press), Biology and Political Science (Routlege), Comparative Health Policy, 3rd ed. (Palgrave), End of Life Decision Making: A Comparative Study (MIT Press), Condition Critical (Fulcrum Press), Governing Home Care (Edward Elgar), Intervention in the Brain: Politics and Policy (MIT Press), Comparative Health Policy, 4th ed. (Palgrave), Politics and the Life Sciences: State of the Discipline (Emerald Press), and Cognitive Enhancement: Social and Public Policy Issues (Palgrave), Comparative Health Policy, 5th ed. (Palgrave) and Social and Policy of Alzheimer's Disease in the United States (Springer Nature). He was also co-editor of the International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Management (Palgrave).