Professor Alan Cribb Professorial fellow (person-centred care)

Alan Cribb is an applied philosopher, based at King’s College London, with a particular interest in health and education policy, health services research and professional education. In recent years he has undertaken work on shared decision-making and collaborative working.

His research report on Involvement, Shared Decision-Making and Medicines funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and sponsored by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, was launched at the Health Foundation in 2011. Since then, he has, in partnership with Vikki Entwistle, completed a Health Foundation knowledge exchange project on collaborative working, published as Enabling people to live well. Vikki and Alan, with other partners, are currently undertaking a follow-on project for the Health Foundation focused on the conceptual underpinnings of support for self-management.

Alan also has an interest in professional ethics and has published extensively on ethics in public health, medicine, nursing and pharmacy. His most recent book is the Fourth Edition of Nursing Law and Ethics (with John Tingle, Wiley Blackwell, 2014). Other recent research projects include a five year Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Strategic Award on 'Translational Ethics'. Alan was a founding editor and editor-in-chief of Health Care Analysis: An International Journal of Health Care Philosophy and Policy (1999-2006).

He began his career at the University of Manchester where he completed his PhD in philosophy and worked as Deputy Director of the Education and Child Studies Research Group in the Department of Epidemiology and Social Oncology and as a Fellow of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy. He moved to King's in 1989 where he is currently Professor of Bioethics and Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Public Policy Research.