Janet Greenlees is a historian of the Modern United States and Great Britain. She has published widely in both fields and using a comparative perspective. Her particular areas of interest include maternal and infant health, maternity care, single mothers, reproductive rights, forced adoption, environmental and occupational health, and women and work. She has secured funding for her research from the Wellcome Trust, AHRC, ESRC and numerous charities. She has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania (2022) and Drexel University in the United States (2023), as well as a fellowship with the American Philosophical Society (2024-25). Janet has been editor of Social History of Medicine since 2023 and is currently the Managing Editor. She is also the Co-Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, a research collaboration between health historians at GCU and Strathclyde.