Robert H. Blank is Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Among his previous academic positions were Chair of Public Policy at Brunel University in West London, UK and frequent guest professorships at Aarhus University, Denmark and National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He has also held residential fellowships at Vanderbilt University, USA, Stanford University, USA, Indiana University, USA, and the Medical University of South Carolina, USA. He has taught, lectured and written widely in the areas of comparative health policy, medical technology assessment, and biomedical ethics/policy. Among his many books are Brain Policy and Intervention in the Brain: Politics and Policy.