Sorcha Brophy

Sorcha A. Brophy is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. She is an organizational sociologist and health policy scholar, whose research agenda focuses on (1) politics within and between health professionals, (2) health workforce challenges, and (3) contestation around values in healthcare. She has a book under contract at Stanford University Press on the politics of organizational ethics and has recently authored articles in health policy, sociology, and bioethics journals including: The Bulletin of the WHO, Hastings Center Report, BMJ, Journal of Professions and Organization, and The Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law. She is currently conducting ethnographic, interview, focus group, and survey-based research on politics surrounding nurse staffing and community health centers. While at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center she will work on a project about nurse staffing and healthcare unions.