Nicholas B. King

Biography

Nicholas B. King is the Associate Director of the Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy at McGill University, where he holds appointments in the School of Population and Global Health and the Max Bell School of Public Policy. King studies the ways that ‘black boxes’ – from health and health inequality metrics to complex algorithms and large language models – are shaped by human interests and value judgments, and in turn shape individual decisions, collective behavior, and public policy. He has published in the American Journal of Public Health, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, Milbank Quarterly, PLOS Medicine, and Social Science & Medicine.