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Overview

Alan Gilbert is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed to research in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Infectious Diseases, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's publications cover a range of topics such as Empathy and Medical Education, Innovations in Medical Education, Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare, Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research, Health and Conflict Studies, and Hepatitis B Virus Studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Alan Gilbert include:

  • Using Virtual Patients to Support Empathy Training in Health Care Education, 2023, Simulation in Healthcare The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare
  • PROFILE: MARCO FUSI, 2020, Tempo
  • Comprehensive public health response and preparedness: key lessons from Rwanda's effective containment of the 2024 Marburg virus outbreak, 2024, Ethics Medicine and Public Health

Frequent co-authors working alongside Alan Gilbert are Stephanie Carnell, Benjamin Lok, Anna Miles, Marco Fusi, and Pierre Boulez.

The scientist's publications have appeared in the following venues:

  • Simulation in Healthcare The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare
  • Tempo
  • Ethics Medicine and Public Health

Best Publications

  • Cities, Poverty, and Development: Urbanization in the Third World

    Yue-Man Yeung;Alan Gilbert;Josef Gugler

  • Urban informality : transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

    Ananya Roy;Nezar AlSayyad;Alan G Gilbert;Arif Hasan

  • The Return of the Slum: Does Language Matter?

    Alan Gilbert

  • On the mystery of capital and the myths of Hernando de Soto: What difference does legal title make?

    Alan Gilbert

  • The Latin American City

    Alan Gilbert

  • Housing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities

    Alan Gilbert;Peter M. Ward

  • Cities, Poverty and Development: Urbanization in the Third World

    Alan Gilbert;Josef Gugler

  • Helping the poor through housing subsidies: lessons from Chile, Colombia and South Africa

    Alan Gilbert

  • Cities, Poverty and Development: Urbanization in the Third World.

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  • Landlord and Tenant: Housing the Poor in Urban Mexico

    Alan Gilbert;Ann Varley

  • An urbanizing world: Global report on human settlements, 1996

    Alan Gilbert

  • In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America

    Alan Gilbert

  • Bus Rapid Transit: Is Transmilenio a Miracle Cure?

    Alan Gilbert

  • Cities, poverty, and development

    Alan Gilbert

  • Third World Cities: Housing, Infrastructure and Servicing

    Alan Gilbert

  • A Home is for Ever? Residential Mobility and Homeownership in Self-Help Settlements:

    A Gilbert

  • Power, Ideology and the Washington Consensus: The Development and Spread of Chilean Housing Policy

    Alan Gilbert

  • Community action by the urban poor: Democratic involvement, community self-help or a means of social control?

    Alan Gilbert;Peter Ward

  • Third World Cities: The Changing National Settlement System:

    Alan Gilbert

  • The mega-city in Latin America

    Alan Gilbert

  • Urbanisasi dan kemiskinan di dunia ketiga

    Alan Gilbert;Josef Gugler

  • Housing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities

    Peter Lloyd;Alan Gilbert;Peter M. Ward

  • The poor die young : housing and health in Third World cities

    Alan Gilbert;S. Cairncross;J. E. Hardoy;D. Satterthwaite

  • Rental housing: an essential option for the urban poor in developing countries

    A Gilbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandy Cairncross
Sandy Cairncross University of London
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson University of Sheffield
Neil Smith
Neil Smith City University of New York
Stuart Corbridge
Stuart Corbridge London School of Economics and Political Science
David Satterthwaite
David Satterthwaite International Institute for Environment and Development
David Banister
David Banister University of Oxford

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