Malcolm MacLachlan

Malcolm "Mac" MacLachlan is Professor of Global Health at Trinity College Dublin.^[1] He has published over twenty books and two hundred and fifty academic papers and chapters. His main areas of interest are Social Inclusion, Disability, Culture, Humanitarian Work Psychology and Maritime Psychology. He has been awarded the APA International Humanitarian Award by the American Psychological Association.

He is Director of the Centre for Global Health, at Trinity, and Extraordinary Professor of Rehabilitation at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is also a Director of the consulting firm Global Health Impact. Most of MacLachlan's work is in Africa, Asia and Europe; with governments, United Nations agencies, civil society, and academics; focusing on research, policy and practice to promote social inclusion.

Authored or co-authored books or monographs

• Alisha Ali, Dharm Bhawuk,; David L. Blustein, Boston, Stuart C. Carr, Alexander

Gloss, Johannes Haushofer, Ariel Kalil, Maureen E. Kenny, Saliha Kozan, Sebastian J. Lipina, Malcolm MacLachlan, Eilish McAuliffe, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Laura Smith, Lori Foster Thompson, Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Kathleen Ziol-Guest. (2014) Barriers and Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid: The Role of the Private Sector in Inclusive Development. Istanbul: UNDP.

• MacLachlan, M. & Hand, K. (2013) Happy Nation? Prospects for Psychological Prosperity in Ireland. Dublin: Liffey Press
• Mannan, H., Amin, M., Maclachlan, M. & The EquitAble Consortium (2011 & 2014) 'T'he EquiFrame Manual: An analytical tool for evaluating and facilitating the inclusion of core concepts of human rights and vulnerable groups in policy documents'. Dublin: The Global Health Press & Lyon: Handicap International. For the Second French/English Edition see: http://www.hiproweb.org/uploads/tx_hidrtdocs/EquiFrameManual2014.pdf
• MacLachlan, M., Carr, S.C. and Mc Auliffe, E. (2010) The Aid Triangle: Recognizing the Human Dynamics of Dominance, Justice and Identity. Zed: London.
• MacLachlan, M. (2006) Culture & Health: A Critical Perspective towards Global Health (Second Edition). Chichester: Wiley.
• MacLachlan, M. (2004) Embodiment: Clinical, Critical & Cultural Perspectives on Health & Illness. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
• Smyth, C., MacLachlan, M. and Clare, A. (2003) Cultivating Suicide? Destruction of Self in a Changing Ireland. Dublin: The Liffey Press.
• Carr, S.C., Mc Auliffe, E. and MacLachlan, M. (1998) Psychology of Aid. London: Routledge. [264 pages].
• Emerson, H., Galvin, T. and MacLachlan, M. (1998) International Development Expertise in Higher Education: A database for Ireland. Dublin: IHEI.

Edited & C0-Edited books & journals

• Ahmimed, C.; MacLachlan, M. & Mannan, H. (Eds.) (2014) Policies & Processes for Social Inclusion: Volume I: Possibilities from South East Asia. Jakarta: UNESCO.
• Carr, S.C.,MacLachlan, M. & Furnham, A. (2012) Humanitarian Work Psychology. London: Palgrave-MacMillan .
• Carr, S.C., MacLachlan, M. and McWha, I. (2010) Are Development Discrepancies Undermining Performance? Special Issue of International Journal of Psychology, 45(5), 321-380.
• MacLachlan, M. & Swartz, L. (2009) Disability & International Development: Towards Inclusive Global Health. New York: Springer.
• MacLachlan, M., Mji, G., McLaren, P. & Gcaza, S. (2009, Volume 1) Realising the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa. Special Issue of Disability & Rehabilitation, Issue 1, 2009.
• MacLachlan, M., Carr, S.C. and McWha, I. (2008) Interdisciplinary Research for Development. New Delhi: Global Development Network. (Available as an E-book at http://www.gdnet.org/middle.php?oid=1215).
• Gallagher, P., Desmond, D. and MacLachlan, M. (2008) Psychoprosthetics: The State of the Knowledge. London: Springer.
• Carr, S.C. and MacLachlan, M. (2005) Knowledge Flows and Capacity Development. Special Issue of Higher Education Policy. Paris: UNESCO/IAU/Palgrave. [199-325]
• MacLachlan, M. & Gallagher, P. (2004) Enabling Technologies: Body Image and Body Function. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
• MacLachlan, M. and Caball, M. (2004) Social Science in the Knowledge Society. Dublin: Liffey Press.
• MacLachlan, Malcolm; Smyth, Caroline (2004). Binge Drinking and Youth Culture: Alternative Perspectives. Dublin: Liffey Press. ISBN 1-904148-42-5. 
• MacLachlan, M. (2001) Cultivating Health: Cultural Perspectives on Promoting Health. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
• MacLachlan, M. & O'Connell, M. (2000) Cultivating Pluralism: Cultural, Psychological and Social Perspectives on a Changing Ireland. Dublin: Oak Tree Press.
• MacLachlan, M. and Carr, S.C. (1998) Perspectives in Malawian Psychology: A Reader for Students. Zomba: Zikomo Press.

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