Elizabeth Pisani

Elizabeth Pisani (born 1964) is a British-American epidemiologist, public health consultant, author and journalist. She is an academic researcher and the director of Ternyata Ltd., a public health consultancy based in London, UK. Her research investigates the ways in which politics, economics and culture influence public health. This has included markets for substandard and falsified medicines and HIV. Before this, Pisani was a journalist who worked as a correspondent for Reuters in several Asian countries.

Her first book ''The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS'', which examines factors influencing decision-making for HIV prevention, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2009. Pisani is also known for her 2014 travel book ''Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation,'' in addition to other writings on the society and politics of Indonesia.

Pisani holds (or has held) visiting or honorary posts at  Universitas Pancasila Jakarta (Professor); the George Institute for Global Health (Professorial Fellow);  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Honorary Associate Professor);  the Policy Institute, King's College London (Senior Research Fellow); Imperial College London (Reader); and the School of Health Policy and Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Associate Professor). Provided by Wikipedia