Population Health Sciences Insitute

We lead high-impact research to:

understand, promote and maintain health and wellbeing for all

identify, tackle and prevent the causes of ill-health and reduce inequalities

design, implement and evaluate novel interventions to optimise health and care

Peter Roderick

Peter is a Principal Research Associate at the Population Health Sciences Institute, and a graduate of the Universities of Wales, Cambridge and London. He was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1982 and has worked since then as a barrister in private practice, the oil industry in London and south-east Asia, and as a public interest environmental lawyer, including as legal adviser to Friends of the Earth and as co-Director of the Climate Justice Programme. Since 2012, he has been an academic researcher specialising in health and pharmaceutical law. With Professor Allyson Pollock he is co-author of the NHS Reinstatement Bill.

‌Dr Koldo Casla

Koldo is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Essex and Deputy Director of the Human Rights Centre Clinic, having previously been a Research Associate at Newcastle University. He holds a PhD in European and International Studies from King’s College London (2017), a Fulbright MA in International Studies from the University of Denver (2011), a MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex (2009), and a Law Degree from the University of the Basque Country (2008). Between 2011 and 2013, Koldo was the Chief of Staff of the Human Rights Commissioner of the Basque Country (“Ararteko”). He has worked as a research consultant for Amnesty International on the rights to health, education and housing in Spain. Koldo was also previously the Policy Director of Just Fair, an organisation that monitors and advocates economic and social rights in the UK. He tweets here.

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