Sorcha A. Brophy is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, and a Fellow-in-Residence at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard 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: Social Science and Medicine, The Bulletin of the WHO, Hastings Center Report, JAMA Network Open, BMJ, BMJ Global Health, 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 the healthcare safety net.
