I’m delighted to share that I’ve just signed a contract with Edward Elgar Publishing for a new edited collection to be delivered in June 2027.

The book—edited with Tim Brown and Elizabeth Storer (QMUL)—will develop what we’re calling critical public health geographies. Starting from the long but often under-acknowledged affinities between critical geography and public health, the collection asks a simple but generative question: what would it mean to centre critical, justice-oriented geographical thinking within public health research and practice?

Across the volume, we’ll explore how questions of power, space, bodies, environments and activism shape health and healthcare, and how public health is lived and contested from multiple margins. We use “margins” in a deliberately expansive sense—referring not only to populations and places rendered peripheral through structural violence, but also to knowledges, methods and traditions that sit outside dominant Anglo- and Western-centric canons. Importantly, we also treat margins as sites of creativity, care, resistance and hope.

The book will bring together scholars and practitioners working across themes such as bodies and toxic environments, borders and mobility, neoliberal governance, Indigenous health and dispossession, and public health activism—from HIV/AIDS to COVID-19 and beyond. A distinctive feature of the collection will be a set of dialogue chapters, designed to open space for more experimental, practice-facing and activist engagements.

Over the coming months, we’ll be inviting expressions of interest from prospective authors and commentators, including early-career researchers, practitioners, and activist-scholars. I’ll be posting more details about these opportunities very soon.

For now, I’m hugely excited about the project—and grateful to Edward Elgar for their support. More to follow.