CPHN

The Critical Public Health Network brings together academics and practitioners interested in critical perspectives in public health.  The society publishes the Journal of Critical Public Health, an open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal launched in 2023 to continue providing a forum for research and debate in the tradition of its predecessors, Radical Community Medicine and Critical Public Health, following the resignation of the CPH Editorial Team and Board from its commercial publisher. The first issue of the Journal of Critical Public Health includes an editorial describing its mission.

You can join the Critical Public Health Network for a small annual membership fee, which helps fund the journal, or sign up to the email mailing list for free.

Purpose

The purpose of the network is to:

• Act as an advocate for the critical public health scholarly community 
• Offer a point of contact for public health practitioners interested in social science/humanities in public health
• Provide a network for information/knowledge exchange for members to enhance research, policy, and education on and for public health.
• Continue to develop the spirit and commitment to critical public health initiated in Radical Community Medicine (see archives here)

Committee 

The Critical Public Health Network has a committee comprised of 8 members. These are currently:

• Chairperson: Ewen Speed (esspeed@essex.ac.uk)
• Secretary: vacant (info@cphn.net)
• Membership secretary: Kirsten Bell (k.bell@imperial.ac.uk)
• Treasurer: Barry Gibson (b.j.gibson@sheffield.ac.uk)
• Social Media: Aaron Reeves (aaron.reeves@spi.ox.ac.uk)
• Ordinary member: Lindsay McLaren (lmclaren@ucalgary.ca)
• Ordinary member: Judith Green (j.m.green@exeter.ac.uk)
• Ordinary member: Rochelle Burgess (r.burgess@ucl.ac.uk)

What do we mean by a critical perspective in public health?

CPHN Constitution (links to .pdf)

Founding members