Editorial Board

Melbourne, Australia
Twitter @Doc_Samantha
Email [email protected]

Research Background and Interests

Samantha is Professor of Public Health at the Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating with a PhD in Community Health from the University of Auckland, Samantha started her career at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, before working at King’s College in London. At Deakin University, Samantha’s research focuses on the socio-cultural, commercial, and political determinants of health, and public health advocacy. In particular her research has investigated the impact of harmful industry marketing on young people and women. She is globally recognised as one of the leading public health academics working in the field of gambling reform. Her ground-breaking research on the normalisation of gambling and the impact of gambling industry tactics on young people has received significant political and media attention. Samantha is most passionate about ensuring that young people have a voice and are listened to in policy decisions that impact their health and wellbeing. Her most recent research investigates how young people conceptualise the commercial and political determinants of the climate crisis; the impact of alcohol marketing on women; and parent’s views about government action on harmful industries. Samantha regularly provides testimony to government inquiries, and provides national and international media commentary on contemporary public health issues.

Declarations of Interest

In the last five years Samantha has received research funding from the Australian Research Council, Healthway, Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, VicHealth, and the NSW Office of Gaming. Samantha serves on the Board of the International Confederation of Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drug (ATOD) Research Associations.

Johannesburg, South Africa
Twitter: @joframsa

Research Background and Interests

Joel is a physician, an epidemiologist, and a Research Professor/Reader at the University of the Witwatersrand, School of Clinical Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, and Primary Care. He is rated at the NRF-C2 level by the South Africa National Research Foundation (NRF). Before joining WITS, he worked as a research scientist with the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania and a research fellow with the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University.  He holds a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree (equivalent to MBBCh) from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, an MSc in Epidemiology from Harvard University, USA, and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of London (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), UK. His primary areas of research interest include Alcohol and Other Drug Use, HIV, Mental Health, Implementation Science and Epidemiology. The focus of his work has been mainly on sub-Saharan Africa. He serves as a Board Member of the International Confederation of ATOD Research Associations (ICARA).

Declarations of interest

Most of Joel’s research has been supported by funding from the HIV Research Trust, UK, THRiVE consortium, DFID, UK through STRIVE consortium, Global Fund Round 8 (HIV-Initiative), HIV Implementation Science fellowship, NIH grant through Harvard School of Public Health, Global Health Department.  

Twitter: @katef224  

Research Background and Interests

Kate Frazer is a registered nurse and an Associate Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research focuses on three interconnected public health topics: inclusion health, tobacco control and Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) with marginalised communities and using co-design methodologies.  Tobacco control studies focus on smoking cessation and secondhand smoke exposure in various groups, including pregnancy, people experiencing homelessness and people diagnosed with cancer. As Co-PI for an ESRC/ IRC funding award, she established a 5-country Smoke-Free Homes Innovation Network (SHINE) consortia and continues to develop an All-Ireland network for smoke-free homes. Grant award success [circa €1.5 million] includes a two-year funded HRB Cochrane Training Fellowship and completion of two impactful systematic reviews for the Tobacco Addiction Group, Oxford assessing the evidence base legislative smoking bans.  A third Cochrane review with colleagues at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) examined the evidence base of smoking cessation interventions for people who are experiencing homelessness. Currently a co-investigator on 1) Irish Cancer Society funding RCT co-developing a smoking cessation pathway for smokers diagnosed with cancer, 2) Co-designed study examining cancer awareness in the Irish Traveller Community (National Cancer Control Programme funded) (co-applicant), 3) Science Foundation Ireland funded RCT to examine the impact of E-cigarettes on Childhood Health Outcomes (ECHO) study.

Declarations of Interest

In the last 10 years, Kate has been a member of research teams receiving national and international funding into University College Dublin.  She is a member of the Editorial Board for Journals Health Expectations and for Perspectives in Public Health.  She was a guest editor on two special issues Homelessness and Social Determinants of Health (2020 to 2022) for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. She is a member of the local organising committee for EUPHA in Dublin 2023, and UKPHS (2022- current).  She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau (2004 to current). She is a lay member of the board of Faculty Public Health (UK) (2022 – 2025). She is an invited member of an Irish Governmental Advisory Group [Growing up in Ireland study].

Cork, Ireland
Twitter @MaritaHennessy

Research Background and Interests

Marita Hennessy is a Postdoctoral Researcher – Health Services Researcher within the Pregnancy Loss Research Group, INFANT Research Centre, University College Cork, and an Adjunct Lecturer on the MSc in Public Health at the University of Limerick. In 2020, she graduated with a PhD from the University of Galway where she was a Health Research Board-funded Structured Population Health and Health Service Research Education (SPHeRE) Scholar investigating early interventions to promote ‘healthy growth’. Prior to commencing her doctoral studies, Marita held research roles with various public bodies and academic institutions across Ireland. Her research interests are many and varied; they include pregnancy loss, maternal and child health, men’s health, weight stigma, commercial determinants of health, food poverty and health inequalities, intervention development and evaluation, implementation science, knowledge translation, and patient and public involvement. She draws on a range of research methods including qualitative, mixed methods, evidence synthesis, and creative and participatory approaches. Marita began her career within the food industry, where she worked for four years following the completion of a BSc in Nutritional Sciences at University College Cork. She went on to complete a MA in Health Education and Health Promotion at the University of Limerick and a Diploma in Youth and Community Work at University College Cork. Marita is a passionate public health and social justice advocate.

Declarations of Interest

In the last five years Marita has received research funding from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Ireland), Health Research Board (Ireland), Irish Hospice Foundation and Irish Research Council.

Research Background and Interests

Shane is a Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development and a researcher with the Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Before entering academia, Shane worked as a Physiotherapist in community health in both Australia and the United Kingdom and developed his strong interest in the link between social inequalities and health. A major stream of Shane’s research has focussed on using system’s thinking to enhance the impact of community-based health promotion programs, which includes working with The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. In addition, his research uses gender theory to understand the factors that shape men’s health and men’s engagement with health services, and he is currently researching the factors impacting the mental health of university students. Shane is passionate about using social theory and quantitative research methods to identify ways to reduce social inequalities and the health impacts of power differentials. Shane is also Course Director for the Master of Public Health at Deakin University and teaches Epidemiology and Public Health units and holds a PhD, Master of Public Health, and Graduate Certificate of Higher Education and Learning from Deakin University and a Bachelor of Applied Science, Physiotherapy from La Trobe University.

Declarations of Interest

Over the past five years, Shane has received funding from Health Consumers Tasmania, BUPA HI, and the Sax Institute and has worked with The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre and the Department of Health, Tasmania.

Research Background and Interests

Britta is an interdisciplinary researcher currently working as a Research Fellow in the Department for Health and Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, UK. She has also held teaching and research positions at the University of Bath and the University of Nottingham, UK. Britta holds a PhD in Social and Policy Sciences and is an alumna of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Public Policy.
Her diverse research interests include the commercial determinants of health, health policy and policymaking, tobacco control and endgame strategies, and policy transfer, as well as public health advocacy, implementation research, transparency and accountability, evidence synthesis, and research ethics, particularly in the context of sensitive topics. Her work predominantly employs qualitative, mixed-methods, and investigative approaches.
Britta is a Fellow of Advance HE and a member of the Centre for 21st Century Public Health at the University of Bath, among other affiliations. Her work is motivated by a desire to contribute to meaningful change that advances public and planetary health.
Declarations of Interest
Over the past five years, Britta’s work has been funded by Bloomberg Philanthropy as part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use and by Vital Strategies. She has also held a University Research Studentship Award (URSA) at the University of Bath, UK.

Munich, Germany
Twitter: @orkanokan_

Research Background and Interests

Orkan Okan is Assistant Professor of Health Literacy at the Department of Sport and Health Sciences at Technical University Munich, Germany. He graduated with a doctor phil. at Bielefeld University in 2020 and has vast experience in research, practice and policy on health literacy.

Orkan was project manager and coordinator of the Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence Research Consortium (HLCA) and is currently involved in various national, EU and Erasmus+ projects on health literacy and digital health literacy. Together with his colleagues, he coordinates the international HLS-COVID-19 study and the global COVID-19 Health Literacy Research Network (COVID-HL, www.covid.org), including more than 150 researchers from 70 countries. He has advised and worked with governmental organizations and NGOs on health literacy, including WHO, UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education, Schools for Health in Europe Network Foundation (SHE) and the International School Health Network (ISHN). Orkan has published more than 130 articles and chapters. According to Expertscape's PubMed-based algorithms, he is among the top 0.1% of scholars writing about health literacy over the past 10 years. Orkan is co-editor of three health literacy books “International Handbook of Health Literacy”, “New Approaches to Health Literacy”, "Health Literacy: Springer Reference Work". Orkan is vice president of the International Health Literacy Association (IHLA) and chair of the Interest Group Health Literacy in Schools. Orkan is chair of the EUPHA Working Group on Health Literacy and Deputy Chair of the Global Working on Health Literacy at the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE).

Declarations of Interest

In the last five years Orkan has received research funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry of Health, Barmer Public Insurance, the World Health Organization, the European Commission, Europe`s Erasmus+, the Lower Austrian Research Funding Agency (Niederösterreichische Forschungsförderung), and the Schools for Health in Europe Network Foundation.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1714-4783

Twitter: @CervanteeWild

Research Background and Interests 
 
Cervantée is a Research Fellow at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. She graduated with a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Auckland, focusing on childhood obesity intervention. Her background is in public health and political sciences. Cervantée is an interdisciplinary, qualitative and mixed-methods researcher with a focus on improving health services and systems for children, young people and their families. 

Her recent research has included work on child health data governance; the impact of Long Covid on children and their families; non-communicable disease policy implementation in LMICs; cross-country comparative Covid-19 governance; commercial determinants of health; and healthcare workers’ experience with PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic. At the centre of this is a commitment to child health, healthy systems and environments, and health equity. She is an honorary academic in the Department of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health at the University of Auckland.

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years Cervantée has received research funding from the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research, the New Zealand Health Research Council, the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, the World Health Organization and the World Bank. She has worked on studies funded by the National Science Challenge A Better Start and Cure Kids, and her doctoral research was funded by the Agnes Paykel PhD Scholarship.

Research Background and Interests

Asheigh Haynes is a Senior Research Fellow at Cancer Council Victoria’s Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer and works on varied topics in the areas of alcohol and tobacco use, sun exposure, and diet, and related harmful industries. After graduating from Flinders University South Australia with a PhD in applied cognitive psychology, she worked at the University of Liverpool on projects investigating weight stigma and environmental influences on food intake including portion size. Ashleigh is passionate about conducting policy-relevant research that has impact and her research frequently attracts media attention. Her research has been used to inform advocacy and practice in the areas of tobacco and healthy diet-related public health mass media campaigns, alcohol labelling, food and drink marketing, school food environments, restaurant menu energy labelling, and action on food portion sizes in Australia and the UK. Ashleigh’s research mainly draws on quantitative methods and her most recent work has investigated the phenomenon and potential impact of health-oriented marketing by the alcohol industry. 

Declarations of Interest

In the last five years Ashleigh has been part of teams receiving research funding from Healthway, National Health and Medical Research Council’s Medical Research Futures Fund, Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, Canadian National Institutes of Health Research, and Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.

Melbourne, Australia
Twitter: @SimoneNicoleM

Research Background and Interests

Simone McCarthy is a postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin University working in the area of commercial determinants of health. Her PhD thesis explored Australian women’s lived experiences of gambling and gambling-related harm, and the practical and political responses to addressing women’s vulnerability to gambling through a gendered lens. Simone’s research interests have focused on the range of determinants that influence women’s consumption of harmful products and how this contributes to gender inequity. She has also been involved in a number of research projects exploring the role of harmful industries in influencing attitudes and behaviours for a range of at risk groups including young people and older adults. Simone is dedicated to public health research and translating research into action through science communication and advocacy.

Declaration of Interest

Dr McCarthy has no interests to declare.

Melbourne, Australia
Twitter @GraceArnot

Research Background and Interests

Grace is a PhD student and qualitative public health researcher at the Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University. Her research has explored children’s and young people’s perceptions of the climate crisis, as well as strategies and mechanisms to engage them in climate decision making. She has a particular interest in engaging children in discussions about the political and commercial determinants of health. Recently, Grace has collaborated on research examining how different population subgroups (including children and women) understand harmful industry tactics. She is also involved in research examining how universities can better promote the mental wellbeing of international students. Grace has a special interest in innovative and creative qualitative methods including photo elicitation, and their application in partnering with children and young people in public health and health promotion research.

Declaration of Interest

Grace is funded by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, and has been an investigator on a grant funded by VicHealth.

Perth, Australia
Twitter @DrOliviaDoll1

Research Background and Interests

Mike is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, where he was Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute. He was previously Director General of Health for Western Australia and Chair of the Australian National Public Health Partnership. He has held many senior positions in government, with further roles including President of the Public Health Association of Australia, President of the Australian Council on Smoking and Health, co-chair of the National Alliance for Action on Alcohol, and chair of many other boards and committees. He has been active in health policy, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, predatory journals and other public health areas for fifty years, and has worked with WHO, governments and health organisations in more than forty countries. Before moving to Australia in 1984 he was the first full-time Director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) in the UK, then Senior Lecturer in Health Education in the Department of Community Medicine at Edinburgh University. He has published widely and received numerous awards from state, national and international organizations.

Declarations of Interest

In the last five years Emeritus Professor Daube has been involved in research projects funded by the Australian Research Council, Healthway, Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, National Health and Medical Research Foundation.

Research Background and Interests 

Having previously served as Dean and Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Lekan is currently a Professor and the Head of the School of Health Systems and Public Health at the University of Pretoria. His main research focus is on behavioural epidemiology and related policy evaluation for non-communicable diseases (NCD) prevention and health promotion. In particular, he has been an investigator and/or co-investigator on national and international research, including clinical trials and capacity-building projects related to tobacco use prevention, treatment/cessation and policy advocacy. With a strong interest in the commercial determinants of health, he is also the Director of the only Tobacco Industry Monitoring observatory in Africa. 

He is also working on resilience studies having previously directed the USAID-funded transdisciplinary Southern Africa resilience innovation programme (SARiLab) as part of the ResilientAfrica Network (RAN), made up of 20 African Universities and three US partner Universities. The programme allows for the co-creation of innovative interventions through community engagements, in order to strengthen health systems and community disaster resilience.     

Prof Ayo-Yusuf has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals. He is a member of a number of national and international scientific committees/groups including current role as the Deputy Chair of the Standing committee on Health of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and a member of the WHO Tobacco Regulation Scientific Group. 

Declarations of interest 

In the last 5 years, Lekan has received research funding from South African Medical Research Council and the Medical Researcher Council in the UK (Newton Funds). During the same period, he has also received funding from the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) for capacity-building of tobacco control advocates and emerging tobacco control scholars in Africa. Lekan currently serves as a member of the WHO Tobacco Regulation Study Group (TobReg).  

Twitter @Sarah_Dlish

Research Background and Interests 
 
Sarah Dalglish is Executive Director of Children in All Policies 2030, an initiative to implement the recommendations of the WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission by centring children’s needs and perspectives in policymaking at local, national and global level. As a researcher and policy expert, her works focuses on how power and politics can be harnessed to improve the health and well-being of children and future generations. She has appointments at University College London and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; she teaches and guest lectures widely on child health and qualitative research methodology. She is based in Paris, with research experience across West Africa, and speaks French and Hausa. She has been named a Francophone Woman Leader in Global Health and received the “Excellence in Science” award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She holds degrees in International Health, Development Economics, International Relations and French from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, the Institut d’Études Politiques (Paris) and Tufts University.   

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years Sarah has received professional fees and research funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and the World Health Organization.  

Twitter @DrBFreeman 

Research Background and Interests 

Associate Professor Becky Freeman is an established global authority on the potential of the Internet to circumvent tobacco-advertising bans and enhance tobacco control efforts. As part of the Prevention Research Collaboration, University of Sydney, she leads a program of research focused on countering the commercial determinants of health, including tobacco, e-cigarettes, and processed food. She has pioneered methods in monitoring and systematically analysing social media content. Freeman’s research exposing tobacco industry advertising and promotion on social media in the face of comprehensive advertising bans has led to regulation and policy changes in Australia, and internationally, to ensure tobacco control laws capture innovations in media platforms. Freeman has provided expert advice and assistance to the WHO, Health Ministers, health departments, research groups and community organisations on how to best use social media to connect with clients and target audiences and advance public health messages. She is a frequent commentator in the news media on tobacco control topics and the health impacts of advertising. In recognition of a commitment to community engagement, in 2017 she was awarded the University of Sydney Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence for Outstanding Research Engagement and Innovation. 

Declarations of Interest 

BF is an Expert Advisor to the Cancer Council Tobacco Issues Committee and a member of the Cancer Institute Vaping Communications Advisory Panel. These are unpaid roles. In the past five years she has received research grant funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Healthway, NSW Health, Department of Health and Aging, Cancer Council NSW, and the Medical Research Future Fund. She also reports receiving consulting fees from WHO, Cancer Council Australia, NSW Health, NSW Cancer Institute, and Heart Foundation.  

Twitter @profplum8

Research Background and Interests 

Kelley Lee is Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University.  She is also the Scientific Director of the Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society (PIPPS).  She was previously Professor of Global Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she co-directed the WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Change and Health.  Trained in International Political Economy and Public Administration, Her research focuses on effective collective action to mitigate the risks of global health threats.  She previously led the Global Tobacco Control Research Programme at LSHTM and SFU which secured public access to British American Tobacco internal documents and conducted wide-ranging analyses of their contents.  She is serving on the Editorial Board of the WHO Global Report on the Commercial Determinants of Health.  Kelley currently heads the Pandemics and Borders Project which analyses the use of travel measures during public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic. She is serving as a Commissioner on the National University of Singapore-Lancet Pandemic Readiness, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation (PRIME) Commission.  She is also co-chairing a joint Royal Society of Canada-Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Expert Panel on Canada’s Role in Global Health.  Kelley is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and Royal Society of Canada.  She has published 15 books, 200+ papers and 60+ book chapters including the Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics (edited with Colin McInnes and Jeremy Youde, 2020). 

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years Kelley has received research funding from the BC Ministry of Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, First Nations Health Authority, Migration Policy Institute, New Frontiers for Research Fund, Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, and World Health Organization. 

Twitter @RaglanMaddox  

Research Background and Interests 

Dr Raglan Maddox’s (Bagumani (Modewa) Clans, Papua New Guinea) program of research has focused on developing and analyzing population based Indigenous heath info-systems using community driven processes. This research has been generating primary data platforms and returning data to Indigenous communities to help better understand and improve Indigenous health and wellbeing. Such health information systems work with Indigenous communities and service providers to obtain information to better understand, inform and evaluate programs and policies with a focus on commercial tobacco use.  

Declarations of interest 

In the last five years, Raglan has received research funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, and the Cancer Institute NSW. Raglan serves on the Board of Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Oceania; SRNT Racial Equity Task Force, and the Tackling Indigenous Smoking Technical Advisory Group. 

Twitter @ARobM 

Research Background and Interests 

Rob Moodie is Professor of Public Health at the University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health (MSPGH), and Professor of Public Health at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi. Prior to this he was the Director of Teaching and Learning at MSPGH, and before that was the inaugural Chair of Global Health at the Nossal Institute. 

He was trained in medicine and public health and worked in refugee health care in the Sudan for Save the Children Fund and Medicins Sans Frontieres, and later for Congress, the Aboriginal Community controlled health service in Central Australia from 1982-1988. He worked for many years on HIV prevention for the Health Department Victoria, the Burnet Institute, WHO's Global Programme on AIDS. He was then appointed as the inaugural Director of Country Support for UNAIDS in Geneva from 1995-98 and was a member of the Commission on AIDS in the Pacific. He chaired the Technical Advisory Panel of Avahan, the Gates Foundation's HIV prevention program in India from 2004-2013. He was CEO of VicHealth from 1998-2007, the world’s first health promotion foundation based on a dedicated tobacco tax. From 2008-2011 he chaired the National Preventative Health Taskforce in Australia, which recommended the introduction of plain packaging. He chaired the Gavi Vaccine Alliance’s Evaluation Advisory Committee from 2013-2019 and advises the World Health Organization in the areas of Non Communicable Diseases and Health Promotion.  

His major interests are in public health leadership skills, health promotion, the role of unhealthy commodity industries (Big Tobacco, Ultra-processed food, Alcohol, Gambling) in harming health, as well as road safety. He led the recently published Lancet series on the Commercial Determinants of Health. He has been teaching and refining leadership skills training programs for the last 15 years mainly in Australia, Malawi and south Asia. He has co-edited and co-authored 4 books including Promoting Mental Health, Hands on Health Promotion and Recipes for a Great Life. 

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years Rob has received funding from the Australian Research Council, WHO, NHMRC and VicHealth. 

Twitter @petticrewmark 

Research Background and Interests 

Mark Petticrew is Professor of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). His main research interests are in evidence-based policymaking, and his work also has a focus on the commercial determinants of health – in particular, the influence of unhealthy commodity industries on health (e.g. through the promotion of tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy foods). Other research has examined alcohol advertising and marketing from a systems perspective, and includes analyses of misinformation disseminated by industry corporate social responsibility (CSR) bodies. 

He currently leads a work package as part of the SPECTRUM Consortium (See: https://ukprp.org/what-we-fund/spectrum/). This consortium investigates the commercial determinants of health and health inequalities, focusing mainly on tobacco and alcohol but extending work to unhealthy food (e.g. high in fat, salt and sugar). It aims to increase understanding of the complex systems of production, distribution and promotion underlying the consumption of these unhealthy commodities; and wider understanding of the influence of producers of the commodities on the systems that promote or harm health. 

Declarations of Interest 

In the past five years Mark has had funding from the Medical Research Council, the NIHR Policy Research Programme (as Director of the NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit), and the UK Prevention Research Partnership (as a member of the SPECTRUM Consortium, see above). 

Research Background and Interests 

Professor Louise Signal is a Director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit in the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is also Co-Director of Te Rōpū Rangahau ō Te Kāhui Matepukupuku: Cancer Society Research Collaboration. Louise is a social scientist with a PhD in Community Health from the University of Toronto. She has been a member of the Department of Public Health for over 20 years and has previous experience working at central and local government in health promotion and community development. 

Professor Signal’s research focuses on identifying and addressing environmental determinants of health. Her research has a strong focus on equity for Māori, Pacific, and low-income communities. Key research areas include the politics of health and health equity, obesity prevention, and addressing harm from alcohol and sun exposure. Her research utilises qualitative research methods, policy research and mixed-method research design. Professor Signal was the principal investigator on an innovative research project that studied the world children live in – Kids’ Cam, which used automated cameras to record children’s worlds. She currently leads Kids Online, a study of 12 year-old children’s online world using real-time data recorded by them and captured on Zoom. 

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years Louise Signal has received funding from the Cancer Society of New Zealand, Lotteries Health Research, and the University of Otago. 

Twitter: @NeeraBhatia_Law

Research Background and Interests

Neera Bhatia holds an LLB (Hons), Master of Laws from the UK, Doctorate in Law from Deakin University and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from Deakin University, Australia.  She is the Director of 'Law, Health, and Society' (LHS) research unit that critically evaluates health law, policy, regulation, and ethics to improve and advance well-being and health outcomes throughout society. Neera is an internationally recognised health law scholar, committed to public engagement and outreach. She has worked with international organisations such as the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (UK). She has an extensive track record of high-quality publications addressing research on end-of-life issues for children, emerging health and biotechnologies, and regulation of human reproduction focusing on assisted reproduction and reproductive tissues including human breast milk, human gametes as well as organ and tissue donation. Her research highlights concern about justice and equity in healthcare, and regulatory reform to improve socio-economic outcomes for individuals and vulnerable cohorts in society.  She actively engages with the wider community as an expert commentator in the media on topical issues in health law.  

Neera is currently the Deputy Chair, Deakin University Human Research Ethics Committee, and the former Faculty Chair, Human Ethics Committee. She has previously served as the health law stream leader for the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL). She has also previously been a member of several clinical ethics committees.

Declarations of Interest

Neera is currently receiving funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

MA MSc MB BChir DM DCH FFPH FRCP FAFPHM FIPAA FAICD

Research Background and Interests 

Professor John Catford has been a Professor of Public Health for over thirty years and has held senior academic and health service management positions in Australia and the UK, and with the World Health Organisation.  He is one of the pioneers of the health promotion movement through various leadership roles including the Ottawa Conference, Ottawa Charter, Heartbeat Wales, VicHealth and Health Promotion International Editor 1986-2013 and Editorial Board Chair 2013-2023.  

Training initially in paediatric medicine, John has held positions as a Clinician, Professor, Chief Health Officer, Executive Director Public Health, Dean, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, Executive Director Medical Services/CMO, CEO and Board Chair.  He has more than 500 publications relating to health promotion, public health and health services. 

Current appointments include Public Health Specialist Adviser, COVID Pandemic Response, Victorian Government; Professor Emeritus, Deakin University; Consultant Emeritus, Epworth HealthCare; Council Chair, Cairnmillar Institute; Governor, Windermere Foundation; and Director, Eve Learning.  John has previously been Board Chair of VicHealth, Latrobe Health Assembly, Postgraduate Medical Council of Victoria, Youth Support and Advocacy Service, and Commissioner for the two Victorian Government’s Boards of Inquiry into the Hazelwood Mine Fire.  

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years John has received funding from the Cairnmillar Institute, Epworth HealthCare, Eve Learning and Victorian Government. 

Research Background and Interests

Bram Constandt is an Assistant Research Professor of Sport Management at the Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium. His PhD degree in health sciences (Ghent University, 2019) represented the final step of a multidisciplinary educational trajectory with a Postgraduate in Olympic Studies (IOA, 2018), an MSc in Public Management and Policy (KU Leuven, 2015), an MA in History (Ghent University, 2013) and an BA in History (Ghent University, 2012). His research agenda on responsible management in sport critically examines how sport organizations can navigate and mitigate sport’s 'dark side', ensuring that its positive impact remains at the forefront. A significant aspect of his work addresses the normalization of gambling through sport, exploring strategies to protect the integrity and values that sport upholds. Through his research, Bram aims to contribute to a more ethical and responsible sporting ecosystem.

Declarations of Interest

In the last five years Bram has received research funding from Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), the Special Research Fund of Ghent University (BOF), the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), and the Belgian Federal Ministry of Justice.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5630-0745

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sean-cowlishaw

Research background and interests

Sean is an Associate Professor with the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne. Since obtaining his PhD in psychology from La Trobe University, Sean has held positions in both Australia and UK; most recently with the Phoenix Australia Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, and in the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol. He has research expertise across areas of trauma and adversity, violence, and addictive behaviours. Sean has led Australian-first projects addressing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) use and exposure in military and veteran populations, and is the lead author on the special section on victim-survivors of IPV in the Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Complex PTSD. He has worked extensively in the area of disaster mental health, across quantitative and qualitative projects following major bushfires, earthquakes, and co-occurring disasters (including the pandemic), and in relation to early mental health intervention approaches in disaster contexts. Sean’s work in the area of addictive behaviours has focused primarily on gambling problems and harms, and has addressed topics including links with trauma, individual and service-level intervention approaches, and public health responses including risks associated with activities of the commercial gambling industry. Sean’s research is highly translational and has foundations of strong relationships with policy makers and research end users, as well as a firm belief in the transformative potential of research and high-quality evidence in addressing the mental health and social challenges of our times.  

Declarations of Interest

In the last five years Sean has received research funding from Australian bodies including the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, Department of Veterans’ Affairs, National Mental Health Commission, Victorian Department of Health, Victorian Department of Education and Training, State Trustees Australia Foundation, Defence Health Foundation, Weary Dunlop Foundation, Colliers Charitable Fund, Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, Gandel Philanthropy, as well as the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council. He has also received funding from international bodies including the National Institute for Health Research (UK) and Atlas Institute for Veterans and Families (Canada).

Twitter @KDadaczynski 

Research Background and Interests 
 
Kevin is Professor of Health Communication and Health Information at the Department of Health Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. After studying health promotion, health education, and health psychology at various universities in Germany, he received his doctor phil. from Leuphana University in Lueneburg, Germany. His research focus is on health promotion and education with special interest on educational settings, digital health and health literacy. He is involved as (co-)principal investigator and coordinator in national and international projects on health school health promotion (e.g. evaluation of complex and holistic interventions on health promoting schools), child and adolescent health (German HBSC study group), digital public health (e.g. gamified health promotion and prevention), and health literacy (e.g. COVID-HL Survey, digital health literacy of pupils). He formerly held positions at the German Federal Center for Health Education and currently (co-)chairs the research group of the Schools for Health in Europe network and the working group on digital health promotion and prevention within the German society of Social Medicine and Prevention.  

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years Kevin has received research funding from the German Federal Center for Health Education, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art, the Innovation Fund of the Joint Federal Committee, German Health Insurances, and the Schools for Health in Europe network. In addition, he has received honoraria for training activities on school health promotion and talks on various topics on health promotion from non-commercial stakeholders.   

Twitter @Felly500 
 
Research Background and Interests 
 
Greg Fell is the Director of Public Health in Sheffield. He graduated from Nottingham University with a degree in biochemistry and physiology in 1993. He has worked as a social researcher in a maternity unit; a number of roles in health promotion and public health before joining the public health training scheme. Greg worked as a consultant in public health in Bradford in the PCT then Bradford council. Since Feb 2016 he has worked for Sheffield City Council as the Director of Public Health for the city. Greg was also appointed to the role of Vice President to the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) in December 2021. 

Declarations of Interest 

Greg is Vice President of the UK Association of Directors of Public Health (non renumerated). He is also a current member of the UK National Screening Committee (non renumerated). He is also a member of the gambling related harm strategic steering group for Yorkshire and the Humber, which is funded by a regulatory settlement awarded by the UK Gambling Commission 

Twitter @joanne_flavel 

Research Background and Interests 

Joanne is a Research Fellow in social determinants of health at Stretton Health Equity in the Stretton Institute at the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, Australia.  She was awarded her PhD from Flinders University in 2016 and held roles at the National Institute of Labour Studies, then the Southgate Institute for Health, Society & Equity and the Research Centre for Injury studies before joining Stretton Health Equity. Joanne’s research focuses primarily on health equity and social determinants of health which is her passion, but her research interests and research experience cover a variety of topics, including interactions between health and work, the social and economic determinants of health, health economics, injury epidemiology and global public health. She has expertise in quantitative analysis but has experience working on mixed methods projects with interdisciplinary teams. She is a member of the international Punching Above Weight Network, formed to advance thinking and research about why some countries do much better in terms of health outcomes than would be predicted by their economic status. She is also a Global Burden of Disease Collaborator. Alongside her academic position, Joanne is actively involved in the Public Health Association of Australia and the Australian Health Promotion Association. She is a member of committees across both organisations and contributes to advocacy and policy work aimed at translating health promotion work into practice. She received the PHAA Emerging Leader Award and the Health Promotion SIG Early Career Award for Research in 2022. 

Declaration of Interest 

Joanne serves on committees with the Public Health Association of Australia in the areas of health promotion, international health and diversity, equity & inclusion and serves on the South Australian branch executive committee of PHAA. She also serves on committees with the Australian Health Promotion Association and on the International Social Epidemiology Society student and early career researcher committee. 

Twitter @drfleary  

Research Background and Interests 

Dr. Fleary is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Sciences at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. She received her B.A. in Psychology from The City College of New York (CUNY) and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Texas A&M University. Dr. Fleary is a licensed psychologist (Massachusetts). Dr. Fleary’s program of research focuses on building social and cultural health capital in children, adolescents, and families who are minoritized and their communities through individual and community-level interventions. She leverages health literacy as a tool for personal and community advocacy. Among her currently funded research are a digital health literacy and obesity prevention intervention for adolescents, a community organization-level health literacy intervention, and a citywide survey of New York City residents’ mental health designed to inform intervention needs. Acknowledging that these types of interventions work best if systemic inequities are addressed, Dr. Fleary’s most recent work has zoomed in on assessing and addressing organizational health literacy in non-traditional health spaces including the role of the library as a transformative system critical for improving public health. 

Declaration of Interests 

In the last five years Dr. Fleary has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She serves on the Board of the International Health Literacy Association. 

Research Background and Interests 

Andrew is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Technology Sydney. Andrew Hayen is Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at UTS. He is also the Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning) in the School of Public Health, where he oversees the four degree programs in public health, health services management and diabetes education. He graduated from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours and the University Medal in mathematical statistics, a Master of Biostatistics and a PhD in mathematical statistics. He is a graduate of the NSW Biostatistics Training Program.  

Andrew has research interests in the application of statistical methods in public health research, and has a particular focus on using large datasets to improve the health of populations, including refugee populations.  

Andrew is Past President of the Australasian Epidemiological Association.  

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years Andrew has received research funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the NSW Ministry of Health, and the The Sax Institute.  

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Research Background and Interests 

Michelle is a Principal Research Fellow in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at The University of Melbourne, and Deputy Director of the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change. She has expertise in health promotion, intervention development and evaluation, behavioural psychology, and clinical psychology. She works across multiple and diverse health-related behaviours including alcohol and tobacco control, nutrition, physical activity, and sun protection.  

Michelle’s research program is instrumental in developing the evidence base needed to optimise health promotion in Australia and has had a significant impact on public health policy and practice. She has established strong collaborations and partnerships with several government, professional, and community organisations, cultivating and maintaining effective working relationships with multiple and diverse research teams and stakeholders. To ensure research outcomes reach a non-scientific audience, Michelle communicates her work frequently to the general public, actively disseminating research findings and providing evidence-based commentary on important issues. To facilitate the translation of work into policy, Michelle regularly leads submissions to government consultations and inquiries.  

Michelle actively serves the public health community, and currently sits on the Australian Council of Smoking and Health, the Public Health Association of Australia’s Health Promotion SIG, and the World Federation of Public Health Associations’ Tobacco Control Working Group. 

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years, Michelle has received research funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Healthway, Cancer Council Australia, Cancer Council Western Australia, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, and the Minderoo Foundation.

Twitter @IlonaKickbusch

Research Background and Interests  

Professor Ilona Kickbusch is the Founder and Chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She is also former Chair of the Health Promotion International Editorial Board. 

She is a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, the WHO Council on the Economic of Health for All, Council Chair to the World Health Summit in Berlin and vice-president of the European Health Forum Gastein. She has been involved in German G7 and G20 activities relating to global health and the global health initiatives of the German EU presidency in 2020 and most recently co-chaired the T7 2022 taskforce on global health. 

She chaired the international advisory board for the development of the German global health strategy and advised on the establishment of the WHO Hub on Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence.  She works on a continuous basis with EU presidencies on global health and is advisor to the development of a revised European Global Health Strategy. 

She publishes widely and serves on many other commissions and boards. She initiated the @wgh300 list of women leaders in global health. She is program chair of the leaders in health network SCIANA at Salzburg Global. She is co-chair of a Lancet FT Commission on “Governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world.”  She is honorary professor at the Charité, Berlin. 

Professor Kickbusch has had a distinguished career with the World Health Organization. She was key instigator of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and WHOs Healthy Cities Network. She was the director of the Global Health Division at Yale University School of Public Health and responsible for the first Fulbright Programme on global health.  

She has received many prizes and recognitions. She has been awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz) and the WHO Medal for contributions to global health. 

Declaration of Interest 

Ilona advises WHO, the European Commission and a range of European governments on global health policy. She serves on a number of commissions and boards, mainly in relation to global health, for example FIND and GPMB.   

Research Background and Interests 
 
Darragh is an Associate Professor in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK. Since graduating with a PhD from University of Toronto, Canada, Darragh’s research has examined the shifting global relationship between gambling and sport, including how rapid industry expansion and technological innovation has engendered growing concerns about the welfare and wellbeing of young people. He is particularly committed to understanding the role of digital technologies in shaping the uptake and normalisation of risky modes of consumption, as well as in the surveillance mechanisms that have facilitated the growth of commercial gambling markets in the UK, North America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Recently, he has led a British Academy/Global Challenges Research Fund project which adopts a co-creative and participatory approach with young people to understand the socio-cultural meaning and public health impacts of gambling-related harm in Ghana and Malawi. In 2020, Darragh was named a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, and regularly provides national and international media commentary on contemporary issues in sport, gambling and public health.  

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years, Darragh has received research funding from the British Academy’s Youth Futures programme, the Leverhulme Trust and the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). He has also collaborated with the BBC and AHRC as part of the New Generation Thinker scheme.  

Twitter: @BelindaNjiro

Research Background and Interests

Belinda Njiro is a medical doctor and an epidemiologist interested in implementation science focusing on HIV/AIDS and its intersection with non-communicable diseases (NCD) in sub-Sahara Africa. She is an early career researcher, currently completing her Master’s degree in epidemiology and implementation science as an MSc fellow sponsored by the WHO program for research and training in tropical diseases (WHO TDR) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She is also a HIV Implementation Science (HIS) research fellow with the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, USA.

For the past three years, she has gained experience in conducting research on infectious diseases of poverty, anti-microbial drug resistance and NCD including sickle cell disease and mental health. Dr Belinda is honored to be part of the esteemed team currently involved in writing the health service delivery chapter of the book on Primary Health Care (PHC) in Tanzania. Her current postgraduate work focuses on treatment outcomes for patients with recurrent TB in Tanzania using the national TB program data.

She has received and led two grants on sickle cell disease renal complications and Pediatric HIV/AIDs and ART resistance under the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and she is currently serving as a research coordinator and investigator for the HIV-CKD project and the Sickle Cell Kidney project under the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Declarations of Interest

In the last five years, Belinda has received research support from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, UK, The Institute for Global Health and Development in collaboration with the Aga Khan University, the HIV Research Trust, UK, and The HIV Implementation Science (HIS) Research Fellowship with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Research Background and Interests

Linda Nyondo-Mipando is Registered Nurse Midwife and an Associate Professor of Health Systems and Policy at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi. She is a tenure track fellow at the University of Liverpool in the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health and based in Malawi at the Malawi Liverpool Programme.  Her research interests are in Health Systems and Implementation Science Research with a focus on health service delivery including quality management.  She is keen on redesigning of health services with end-users, health care workers and policy makers to ensure optimal delivery of health services. Her areas of interest are HIV and AIDS across different populations, Malaria, and Maternal and Newborn Health.   Linda has a Ph.D. in Health Systems and Policy from the University of Malawi (UNIMA); a master’s degree in Community Health Nursing from the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) and a Bachelor of Nursing Advanced Practice (summa cum laude) from the University of Natal Durban, South Africa; University Certificate in Midwifery and a Diploma in Nursing with credit from UNIMA. Linda has vast experience in health systems strengthening including improving delivery of health services and application of quality management techniques.  

Declarations of Interest

In the last five years Linda has been a member of research teams receiving funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Fogarty International, and International Development Research Centre. She is a member of the PLoS one, PLoS Global Public Health, Malawi Medical Journal, and content advisor of the Journal of International Association of Providers of AIDS Care.  She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and Health Systems Global. She is on the Advisory of the HIGH Horizons” - Heat Indicators for Global Health: monitoring, Early Warning Systems and health facility interventions for pregnant and postpartum women, infants and young children and health workers (2022 to current).

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-3810

X: @AugustusOsborn5

Research Background and Interests

Augustus is a researcher at Njala University Sierra Leone. He has a bachelor's degree with honours in biological sciences and a research master's degree in public health. He is a dedicated academic researcher committed to improving adolescents' and women's health. His research focuses on improving health outcomes with a strong emphasis on adolescent and young people's well-being (substance abuse (alcohol, cannabis, amphetamine), bullying, suicide prevention, child marriage, teenage pregnancy) and women's health (maternal & child healthcare, intimate partner violence, family planning, fertility preferences, women's empowerment, and health equity issues). He seeks opportunities to leverage his expertise and passion for these critical fields in impactful research and academic roles.

Twitter @HannahLPitt

Research Background and Interests 

Hannah is a qualitative public health researcher who currently holds a VicHealth Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research has focused on exploring the normalisation of gambling and the impact of the commercial determinants of health, particularly marketing, on at risk population groups. After completing her PhD in 2018, which explored the impact and influence of sports betting advertisements on young people’s attitudes and consumption intentions, she has developed this work and is now regarded as a leading expert in the field of gambling and young people. Recently, her work has focused on understanding how young people can be more effectively engaged in public health advocacy initiatives and responses to address the harms caused by harmful industries such as gambling, alcohol, vaping, and climate change.   

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years Hannah has received research funding from the Australian Research Council, Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, the NSW Office of Gaming, VicHealth and Deakin University. 

Twitter: @DrT_RP

Research Background and Interests

Dr Teurai Rwafa is a Doctor of Public and Population Health (Health Systems and Policy) and a Visiting Lecturer of the University of the Witwatersrand, under its School of Public Health. She has long-standing experience in social and behaviour change communication. Teurai is a mixed methods researcher; whose work emphasizes qualitative approaches. She uses health promotion as an overarching framework for her research work.

Dr Rwafa has worked in various research capacities and with multi-disciplinary teams providing her with substantial research experience. She began her research journey as an undergraduate student. Her early research was on gender-based inequalities and HIV. Later, her work aimed to contribute to knowledge on strengthening health-promoting health systems in low-and middle-income settings. 

Teurai is enthusiastic about evidence-based decision-making. Her research, interests, and publications aim to improve public and population health, focusing on community health workers, food environments, commercial determinants of health, and recently COVID-19 impacts and global health security. This work includes co-editing a textbook on primary healthcare in Southern Africa.

Declarations of Interest

Teurai has worked with research teams and on studies that have received funding from the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) under the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) for Health Systems and Policy, the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), the Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa, the UK Medical Research Council (UK MRC), the  National Institute for Health Care and Research (NIHR), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD).

Twitter @maizie333

Research Background and Interests

May has worked in the fields of malaria and cell-based immunotherapy research, HIV medicine, lung oncology and translational medicine before transitioning into the field of public health research. May completed her post-graduate medical degree at the University of Sydney, Australia. After moving to the UK she worked as a Research Associate in the Research Oncology department at King’s College London. She then undertook the UK Foundation Programme at the South Thames Foundation School followed by a position in HIV Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. This was followed by a position as a Clinical Research Fellow in Lung Oncology and Translational Medicine at Guy’s Hospital. She entered specialty training in August 2016 as a Public Health Specialty Registrar and an Academic Clinical Fellow of Imperial College, London. During her Academic Clinical Fellowship her research focused on the commercial determinants of health as well as the impacts of trade and Brexit on public health. May’s research aims to forward understanding on how commercial and structural determinants affect health and health equity and how the activities of corporate actors influence ideas, knowledge, public discourse, and policy debates. She has published research on the tobacco, alcohol, gambling, and firearms industries, including on the activities of industry formed and funded organisations. In 2020, she commenced a PhD on UK gambling policy as a NIHR Doctoral Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Declarations of interest

In the last five years May has received funding from a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Doctoral Fellowship (NIHR3000156) and her research was also partially supported by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames.

Twitter @ProfStuartT73

Research Background and Interests 
 
Stuart is Professor of Forensic Mental Health at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a social scientist; his PhD was in Health Services Research, and he has a background in psychology and law. He has expertise in the interface between law enforcement and public mental health, and in outcome measurement. His research interests focus on the intersections between our health and justice systems.  

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years Stuart has received research funding from the Australian Research Council, the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, the National Mental Health Commission, and the Victorian Department of Health.  

 

Twitter @duongtuyenvna  

Research Background and Interests 

Dr. Tuyen Van Duong is current an Assistant Professor of School of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. He has been serving as a Vice-president of Asian Health Literacy Association, London, UK (2019-2024); Elected Chair of Scientific Standards Committee, and EB member of International Health Literacy Association, Boston, USA (2022-2025). He has been invited as a yearly Guest Lecturer of Tufts University School of Medicine since 2018. He is an active member of several international organizations, e.g. Nutrition Society of Taiwan, American Society for Nutrition, and some others. 

Dr. Duong has developed a strong academic background, and wide international networks. He has been closely working with other scholars on several research projects (e.g. Health and dietary literacy, dietary intake and health-related behaviors, mental health and quality of life in hemodialysis, chronic kidney disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and COVID-19, marriage and childbearing intention and realization) in Asian countries, and also collaborated with the research consortium in Europe and with growing number of institutions in Australia, United States and Africa.  

By March 2023, Dr. Duong has published about 60 original research articles on 30 ISI journals. He has been serving as an Associate Editor of Specialty Section – Eating Behavior on Frontiers in Nutrition and Frontiers in Psychology, a Guest Editor of IJERPH, Nutrients, a reviewer of 36 international journals. He has received 14 honorable academic awards from national and international organizations from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Switzerland, Taiwan, United States, and Vietnam.  

Declarations of Interest 

In the last five years, Dr. Duong has received research funding from National Science and Technology Council, and Taipei Medical University. 

 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2287-0723

BA Hons. PG Cert. MPH. FFPH

Twitter @AliceWiseman11

Research background and interests

Alice Wiseman has been Director of Public Health in Gateshead since May 2016 and registered with the UK Public Health Register since December 2009. Alice was recently elected as the Vice President for the Association of Directors of Public Health.

Alice’s first degree was in Social Policy at Newcastle University, followed by a P.G.C.E, before training in public health. 

Alice is passionate about improving health and well-being with a particular focus on tackling the unfair inequalities faced by some communities. Alice believes that effective action to address these inequalities requires dedicated effort across the determinants of health, as set out in the first Marmot Review ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives’ (2010).

Alice is driven by the injustice that, two babies, born on the same day, can experience such different life chances, due entirely to the circumstances into which they are born.

Alice’s approach is firmly rooted in the belief that people, in their own communities, must be central to solving the issues of inequality; firstly, through sharing lived experience and secondly, through identifying innovative and creative ways to improve outcomes for their community.

Alice is also involved in the production of research evidence through a contract with the Clinical Research Network for half a day a week. In 2022 Alice led a collaboration between Gateshead Council and Newcastle University which secured a five-year NIHR contract with the Health Determinants Research Collaborative.

Research priorities in Gateshead have focussed on opportunities to gain a better understanding of the lived experience, and impact of Government policy on people in some of the most disadvantaged communities.

Using research to give a voice to people who are least likely to be heard, and easiest to ignore, is central to her work in tackling inequalities at a local level.

Declarations of Interest

In the past five years Alice has had an honouree contract with the Local Clinical research Network for half a day a week. Alice has also secured NIHR funding over five years (2022 – 2027) to develop a research culture in local Government. Alice is also a Director / Trustee for the Institute of Alcohol Studies in the UK.