administrator, Author at Harkness Fellows

Jacob West – More with Less? How AI could revolutionise productivity in health care – and beyond. It seems that AI is now everywhere. With frequent attention-grabbing headlines about the impact of AI, it seems that the fast-pace of AI development in 2022 and 2023 has...

Thanks Malcolm for the Harkness Reports

Behind the scenes, a small group of former Harkness Fellows and associates keep the Harkness Fellows Association alive, seeking ways to keep the network of fellows engaged and connected. Over the years this has included the production of newsletters, though the format...

Aoife McDermott

Aoife McDermott, PhD, is continuing her work in the US and will return in the new year to take up a post as Professor of Human Resource Management at Aston University. Prior to her fellowship at University of California, Berkeley, Aoife was Professor of Human Resource...

Zainab Garba-Sani

Zainab Garba-Sani, MSc, is an alumna of the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme and holds an M.Sc. in Health Policy from Imperial College London. Upon completing her B.Sc. in Clinical Sciences at the University of Bradford, she was introduced into the policy world...

Becks Fisher

Becks Fisher M.A. (Cantab), MB BChir, MRCP (UK), MRCGP, FHEA spent her fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, mentored by Urmimala Sarkar, M.D., M.P.H., (Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine; Associate Chair for Faculty Experience,...

Emmert Roberts

Emmert Roberts MA MSc BMBCh PhD MRCP MRCPsych DFSRH, is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Addiction Psychiatry at the National Addiction Centre, King’s College London (KCL) and a Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist at the South London and the Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation...

How National is the National Interest?

When Anthony Cary first joined the Diplomatic Service there were no job objectives as such; management consultants had yet to take over Whitehall. Lord Salisbury famously likened a sound foreign policy to “floating lazily downstream occasionally putting out a...

Where Next for Russia?

Sir Laurie Bristow, until 2021 a member of the Diplomatic Service, and ambassador to Russia from 2016 to 2020, set out his perception of what motivated President Putin to order the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, of how the invasion had not gone to plan, of the...

A Lifetime Impact?

The Fellowships have a lifetime impact for each individual Harkness Fellow. Many tell us that their time in the US was a life changing experience. But how was it for the youngsters who accompanied their parent Harkness Fellow to live in the USA for anything from a few...

The Pilgrim Trust – with thanks to the Fellowship

I have kindly been invited by the Chair of the Association to contribute a short piece on the Pilgrim Trust in response to the feature in the last newsletter by William Wilson during which he commended the generosity of Edward Harkness in setting up the Trust, and...

Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

If you’re not a philosopher, you can be forgiven for never having heard of him, but within philosophy Derek Parfit is widely regarded as one of the most important moral philosophers of the past century. Some go further, claiming he was the most important moral...

Lord Norman Warner – Can the NHS be Saved?