Catherine Jones Finer is Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College Oxford, Reader in Comparative Social Policy (retired) at the University of Birmingham, and editor of special and regional isues of Social Policy and Administration.

Gillian Lewando-Hundt is Professor of Social Sciences in Health in the School of Health and Social Studies at the University of Warwick. Her current research interests are in the fields of sociology of health, medical anthropology, social policy and public health. She currently conducting reseach in Kenya, South Africa, the Middle East and England. She is the founding Director of a multidisciplinary Institute of Health within the Faculty of Social Studies at the University of Warwick.