PhD Michael Nixon joins the Public-Private Platform

Michael Nixon joins the Public-Private Platform

Michael Nixon is a Ph.D. student visiting the Department of Organization at CBS from Copenhagen University. His research interests focus on the intersection of organisations and public health, or how the health prevention is both organized and implemented in different sectors of the healthcare system. His current project is called "Organising medication discontinuation: GP decision-making when deprescribing statins". Here he looks at the issue of why it is so challenging for GPs to stop medication that elderly patients no longer need (e.g. because of a change in life situation or because they are prescribed too much), with particular focus on risk reducing drugs that prevent future heart attacks and death. A theoretical approach that examines how institutional logics shapes sense making will be used to shed light on the age-old conundrum of live it is harder to stop and start.

Michael has received his Masters in Public Health from Lund University in 2010 and is currently funded by the Centre for Healthy Ageing at Copenhagen University. Michael's work overlaps with the themes of healthcare management, policies and politics of the Health Governance cluster, so he is looking forward to getting involved in the PPP.

Michael joins the cluster of Health Governance. Contact Michael here. And read more about his research here.