Public Health and Health Promotion Starter Pack 1
Prof Samantha Thomas has put together a list of researchers and advocates and not for profit organisations working in public health and health promotion.
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@docsamantha.bsky.social
@hannahpitt.bsky.social
Public health researcher exploring the impact of the commercial determinants of health on children and young people.
@avrilkennan.bsky.social
CEO, Health Research Charities Ireland @hrci.bsky.social (views own). PhD in genetics. Ambitious for a better world through collaboration & inclusion. She/Her 🤹♀️ PPI | research impact | health data | evidence-based policy | genomics | rare diseases...
@beckywhite.bsky.social
Digital health researcher and consultant | PhD Public Health | Director ReachHPI | Adjunct Research Fellow @CurtinUni | Health Promotion | Infodemic Manager
@wwtlam.bsky.social
Associate Professor, SPH, HKUMed; Director, HKUMed JCICC; President, International Psycho-oncology Society IPOS
@aureliepanko.bsky.social
VicHealth Research Fellow @VictoriaUniversity | Research child abuse in sport/Lived Experience Engagement | Survivor-Advocate of CSA in French sport | Living on unceded Kulin Nation lands (Naarm/Melbourne) Talk about lived experience, research, my dogs.
@itaibavli.bsky.social
PhD | Lecturer & Research Associate UBC/SFU | Public health errors | Public health ethics | Racism & health | AI ethics | COI | Opioids | Previously Harvard, BU & Hebrew U
@lizhughesdd.bsky.social
professor @SubMisuseGcu mental health nurse Research on intersection of sexual health/sexuality/IPV/substance use & mental health. ESRC policing & vulnerabilities. mum of son with SEN she/her LGBTQIA+ ally 🌈 https://www.gcu.ac.uk/staff/elizabethhughes
@aahealthdisability.bsky.social
https://aahd.us/linktree/ AAHD is dedicated to ensuring health equity for children and adults with disabilities through policy, research, education and dissemination at the federal, state and community level.
@neilchadborn.bsky.social
Researcher at University of Nottingham & NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands. Interested in dementia, inequalities & digital #publichealthsky #gerontology
@sarahbriggs.bsky.social
NIHR clinical lecturer, academic oncologist researching environmentally sustainable healthcare, University of Oxford. Sustainability, planetary health, climate, ethics, oncology, genomics. Also novice pianist, book-lover, allotment noob, northerner.
@chrishenking.bsky.social
PhDing at the Department of Social Policy and intervention, Oxford University. Inequalities, mental health and social policy. Visiting @WZB Berlin
@simonchapman.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof. Public Health Former Australian Skeptic/Year. Bovine excrement detective. EV driver, doting 5x grandpa, Sydney Swans tragic. Anon accounts rarely followed or responded https://simonchapman6.com/about/
@timsenior.bsky.social
Deep End GP & Churchill Fellow working on Dharawal Country in Aboriginal Community Control. Complex clinical care, policy, education, writing on Indigenous Health, Health Equity, that sort of stuff. Play viola and football, but not at the same time.
@vics-echidna.bsky.social
PhD candidate w. University of Queensland, SPH. Researching nature-based physical activity for cardiovascular and planetary health 🌳😍 Nature Prescription, healthy settings, IUHPE Health Promotion Practitioner 💪🐦 🐷🐳🐮🐟🦔 Working with @uqcchw.bsky.social
@annekavanagh.bsky.social
Professor Disability Health, Uni of Melb. Feminist. Disability advocate. Mum. ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1573-3464 Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-kavanagh-a41b9873/ Bio https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/4025-anne-kavanagh
@policyhannah.bsky.social
Policy, research, and public affairs in population health. Passionate about social, economic, health, and disability justice. 💚 Socialist 🌹 trade unionist ✊ metalhead 🤘 (she/her)
@marlonmd.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇩🇴 DHA candidate Opioid Misuse Prevention Specialist Views are my own
@clairevgarnett.bsky.social
NIHR Advanced Research Fellow at University of Bristol Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group. My research focuses on alcohol harm reduction and digital behaviour change interventions. she/her
@stephaniepart.bsky.social
A/Prof | Sydney Horizon Fellow | National Heart Foundation Future Leader | University of Sydney | PhD, Dietitian (APD) | Adolescent NCD Prevention | Co-chair, IAAH Emerging Professionals Network | She/Her
@susanaramirez.bsky.social
Infodemiologist | Assoc Professor | 🇲🇽🇺🇸 | Wife | Momx3 | 🐈 Lover. I study media, inequality, & health especially re: food & nutrition. #healthcommunication #foodstudies #foodpolicy #AcademicSky #CommSky #NutSky #CDoH
@cicely.bsky.social
Professor of public health, community participation, equity, sexual and reproductive health and rights, knowledge coproduction
@fridaromayhgo.bsky.social
Ella 🇲🇽❤️🔥|Feminist |Lawyer| Activist| Global Health, Access to 💊💉,Bioethics, Health Equity & AMR Specialist | Stand-up Comedian| PIH and Cero Desabasto &Médicxs en Formación| Guided by a heart that beats for justice, equity, and the Global South. 🇵🇸
@upstreampublichealth.com
Working in partnership with communities to transform public health through community organizing, policy advocacy, education, and developing the next generation of public health leaders. Upstream Public Health is proud to be weight inclusive. 📍 Oregon, US
@hkucukali.bsky.social
Public Health Researcher at Utrecht University — My research focuses on prevention of chronic diseases, particularly in urban environments. #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #Exposome
@catherinewh1te.bsky.social
Trainee Health Psychologist at the University of Stirling | Senior Policy Coordinator at Alcohol Focus Scotland | Interests: evidence-based policy, BCTs, cancer screening, women’s health (and the not-so-sciencey things: animals, music, horror films) 🐶🎵🎬
@blythejenny.bsky.social
GP Waltham Forest, North East London, UK. Senior Clinical Lecturer, QMUL. Former NIHR Doctoral Fellow, LSHTM. Non-Executive Director, Bags of Taste.
@francismarkham.bsky.social
Geographer and public policy researcher and teacher at the Australian National University. Settler on stolen land. He/his. Opinions my own, not my employer's. I have never met with Brian Burke.
@anna-starling.bsky.social
Public Health Registrar. Formerly Health Foundation. Ex NHS General Management Training Scheme.
@breastfeedingbaa.bsky.social
Advocating for mothers and infants: protecting breastfeeding through policy reform, enforcing the WHO Code, and exposing harmful industry tactics. #WHOCode #BreastfeedingEducation #MotherNewbornIntensiveCareUnit BreastfeedingAdvocacyAustralia.org
@profjoyparkinson.bsky.social
Professor, Associate Dean Research and Enterprise. ACU. Collaboration for social impact, implementation science, #BehaviouralScience #SocialMarketing and health marketing. Editor-in-Chief Health Marketing Quarterly.
@lynndonkin.bsky.social
Director of Public Health, Bolton Training Programme Director for Public Health in Greater Manchester She/her
@jennyedwards.bsky.social
Personal capacity. Chair People's Health Trust, Trustee Affinity Trust. Fellow Fac Public Health. Mental Health, Arts, Learning Disability, Health Inequalities, Mindfulness, Peace, Nature Connection, Swans. Studied Archaeology & Anthropology. Typos galore
@profamyodonnell.bsky.social
Professor of Applied Health & Social Care Research | Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, UK | Research interests: Substance use; Mental Health; MLTC; Complex Needs | Mother of 2 giant adults (1 w/AuHD + anxiety) & 3 smaller cats.
@jeanmadams.bsky.social
Professor of diet and public health at MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. Munroist, baker, knitter, skier, swimmer. She/her. https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/jean-adams/
@lauramkoenig.bsky.social
Professor of Health Psychology, @univie.ac.at #HPGVienna | #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky | eating behaviour, #digitalhealth, social inequality | #scicomm & #openscience | editor @de.in-mind.org Web: https://gesundheit-psy.univie.ac.at
@darrenhilliard.bsky.social
Senior Analyst @ Nesta | Public health, obesity, loneliness, wellbeing, inequalities, quant methods | Views my own
@healthpromint.bsky.social
HPI contains original articles, perspectives, policy pieces, and editorials relating to contemporary themes in health promotion. EIC @docsamantha.bsky.social https://academic.oup.com/heapro Posts by @gracearnot.bsky.social @simonemccarthy.bsky.social
@veraaraujosoares.bsky.social
Vera (https://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/medical-faculty-mannheim/prevention-of-cardiovascular-and-metabolic-diseases/team ) is Prof. of Prevention and head of the Division of Prevention at the Center for Preventive Medicine and Digital Health.
@drbenkwitz.bsky.social
Reader at Birmingham Newman University. Public health, mental health, physical activity, social recovery. AVFC STH. https://www.newman.ac.uk/staff/adam-benkwitz/
@daniel-semenza.bsky.social
Criminologist | Associate Professor at Rutgers University | Director of Research at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center | Stoneleigh Fellow
@kyliemaidment.bsky.social
I have a background in psychology, policy & advocacy. I am working in Policy and Knowledge Translation with UNSW and the Black Dog Institute as part of a multidisciplinary team working on treatment predictors and personalised interventions for depression.
@padsul.bsky.social
a doctor, a researcher, a public health practitioner, asst prof @UNMCCC & now the Inaugural Director of Center for Advancing Dissemination and Implementation Science (CADIS), yet a life long student focused on #cancerprevention #impsci Opinions are my own.
@fsniehotta.bsky.social
Professor of Public Health, Social & Preventive Medicine Heidelberg University (CPD) https://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/medical-faculty-mannheim/public-health Director NIHR Policy Research Unit Behavioural & Social Science @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social
@bethsawin.bsky.social
Director Multisolving Institute. She/her. Systems thinking, climate justice, and multisolving, with a sprinkle of gardens and the odd puns. @bethsawin on X
@hazelcheeseman.bsky.social
Chief Executive at UK public health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) www.ash.org.uk
@abbarkerpsych.bsky.social
Dr Alex Barker || Lecturer / researcher in Psychology / Public Health || AFBPsS CPsychol FHEA|| Dad || deaf 🦻 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4568-5114
@matthopcraft.bsky.social
A/Prof public health dentistry @unimelbMDS 🦷 | @VicHealth Champion | @MasterChefAU 2015 Top 6 👨🍳 @ 2025 Back to Win| #dental 🇦🇺 #auspol
@alikjones.bsky.social
Global health lawyer on a mission to keep the food industry honest. PhD (Pub Health), LLM (Global Health Law). Program Lead, Food Governance @georgeinstitute.
@mhef.bsky.social
Professor of public health, Editor-in-Chief BMJ Tobacco Control. Qualitative research, #TobaccoEndgame, commercial determinants of health/drivers of disease, equity. Opinions mine. Living on unceded Larrakia country, Darwin Australia..
@gjhollands.bsky.social
Behavioural science + evidence synthesis at UCL • population health • interventions • environments • unpopular music • architecture (& morality) • "fun-sponge boffin" (Daily Star) 🔗 https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/92345-gareth-hollands 🌍 London, UK
@dph-mashton.bsky.social
Director of Public Health for the best city in the world | On a mission to improve #Health & #Wellbeing and reduce #Inequity | all views my own
@jsalomon.bsky.social
Professor at Stanford. Probabilistic optimist. #healthpolicy | #publichealth | infectious disease | decision science | simulation modeling | economic evaluation Director http://ppml.stanford.edu
@yassentch.bsky.social
Public Health Doc, Head of Infectious Diseases in Nunavik Passionate about epi, global health, & planetary health Assistant Prof at @McGill University #EpiSky #IDsky #MedSky https://www.linkedin.com/in/yassentch/
@caitlinrain.bsky.social
Global #SRHR, working at the intersection of public policy, human rights, and imp sci. These days, all things #PPH. Posts = own views https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-869X
@gauden.bsky.social
Public health practitioner and advocate, passionate about NCDs and innovation. Pythonista. AI curious. Book lover. Views are my own. Repost ≠ Endorsement.
@alycenwilson.bsky.social
Public Health Physician | Researcher | Educator Deputy Director @GippslandRegionPublicHealthUnit Honorary @BurnetInstitute @UniMelb @MonashUni Lives and works on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Gunaikurnai Peoples 🏳️🌈
@monroemovement.bsky.social
Associate Professor, U of South Carolina|exercise physiologist| teacher| e/mHealth researcher: physical activity + meaningful social connections via IRL & tech | https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/public_health/faculty-staff/monroe_courtney.php
@jholmessheff.bsky.social
Professor of Alcohol Policy at the University of Sheffield. Co-Director of NIHR Policy Research Unit in Addictions. Research focuses on alcohol pricing and MUP, no/lo drinks, youth drinking, drinking guidelines and more. Occasionally rants about Everton.
@emmaboyland.bsky.social
Professor of Food Marketing and Child Health, Department of Psychology. Deputy Executive Dean, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool. Interested in food marketing exposure, persuasive power, behavioural impact, & public health policy.
@drneerabhatia.bsky.social
A/Prof in Health Law | Director : Law, Health and Society (LHS) Research Unit www.lawhealthsociety.com 🏳️🌈 Not so active on Twitter/ X- @NeeraBhatia_Law
@annacomerford.bsky.social
Public health, mental health, youth justice. Senior Project Manager in NHS West Yorkshire ICB's Adversity, Trauma and Resilience Programme. Saltaire-based, mainly for the ducks. She/her. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@grantennis.bsky.social
Author of Dark PR: How corporate disinformation undermines our health and the Environment, 2023, Daraja Press. Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/bookdarkpr
@ycrh.bsky.social
Canadian youth passionate in driving change for children and youth health through research 👩🏫 collaboration 🤝 advocacy 🗣 and engagement 💪 sandboxproject.ca/ycrh-home
@simonemccarthy.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Deakin University. Researching the gendered impacts of gambling harm and the commercial determinants of health
@dottyb.bsky.social
I am a mother, grandmother and wife. I am also Professor of social Justice and Public Policy at Teesside University. After 12 years on Twitter I am starting again here.
@bethlinker.bsky.social
Historian of Science + Medicine + Public Health + Disability @UPenn. New book re origins of posture health panic: SLOUCH https://tinyurl.com/46hfkpsn bethlinker.com Other books: WAR'S WASTE & CIVIL DISABILITIES
@cathhart.bsky.social
Passionnée de santé publique, Publiciste , Paris Politique UE, Bruxelles mais Francaise, photographe amateure, grande voyageuse, aime sa bâtarde malchi Maya Public Health advocate, EU politics, based in Brussels and citizen of the world, amateur photograph
@jtstage.bsky.social
Sociologist, inequities in health, digital health, organizations, inclusive and sustainable collaborative work. Postdoc at University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health, Health Service Research Visiting Research Fellow Kings College London
@julieleask.bsky.social
Professor of Public Health | Social scientist | Vaccination | Risk communication. School of Public Health, University of Sydney https://sabii.sydney.edu.au/
@andrewhayen.bsky.social
Australia's most serious professor. CPO Emeritus. Personal views only.
@janethoek.bsky.social
Public health academic, formerly marketing prof and medievalist. Went from the dark ages to the dark side before seeing the light.
@feministgothic.bsky.social
Twitter migrant. Senior academic precariat. Sociologist. Applied qual research (health and lack of social care). Concerned about research quality and integrity. Monsters. Lit. Cult. 'A woman's place is in the resistance'
@remalone.bsky.social
UCSF Prof Emerita Nursing/Public Health Policy. Call your Congressional Representatives. Call them AGAIN. Show up at their local offices. YELL. STOP THE TRUMP/MUSK COUP. STOP FASCISM. FIGHT FOR DUE PROCESS. MASS MOBILIZATION HANDS OFF. REFUSE!
@sflkirk.bsky.social
Health Promotion Prof at DalhousieU. Account mainly focused on pop health, climate anxiety & advocacy for safe streets. UK export now physically located in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Canada. Volunteer board member of @velocanadabikes.bsky.social. She/her.
@andymohan.bsky.social
Lecturer & public health researcher at University of Dundee; alcohol researcher; race equality advocate. President of ICARA (International Confederation of Alcohol, tobacco & other drugs Research Associations)
@pregnancylossie.bsky.social
The Clinical Pregnancy Loss Research Team at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) & the Pregnancy Loss Research Group @ UCC. Shares ≠ endorsement Website: www.ucc.ie/pregnancyloss Related sites: https://linktr.ee/pregnancylossresearchgroup
@assumenormality.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Vanderbilt w/ expertise in access to care, Medicaid, Veterans' health. Formerly Boston University, Department of Defense, US Army (CIV). Views are my own. #HealthEconomics #PublicHealth
@publichealthguy1.bsky.social
personal account. shares/likes ≠ endorsements. all opinions my own.
@chitrat.bsky.social
PhD student, Deakin university Interested in childhood obesity and infant feeding practices in the first 2000 days #childhoodobesity #First2000days #ethnicity
@joesarling.bsky.social
Strategic Director at @gmmoving.co.uk 🐝 Economist working on #systemchange & prevention in physical activity, health & placemaking ▪ Geeky about devolution, housing, social impact ▪ FRSA ❤️ cycling & running in the Peak District & on Zwift 🚵🏻♂️🏃
@drbalsamahmad.bsky.social
Consultant of Public Health in the #NHS Passionate about art & science #PlanetaryHealth; Mother #SEND ♿️ Ally #LivedExperience #SocialJustice anti-war, loves #parkrun 🐈⬛ 📖 & cooking/catering Views are own; reposts # endorsements; lives in the proper North!
@roojinhabibi.org
Law prof at @uottawa.bsky.social, @ottawahealthlaw.ca. I work in international & public law, global/public health, & human rights • Iranian-Canadian • lover of rescue dogs, cortados and waterfront runs • my works at www.roojinhabibi.org
@jackmbirch.bsky.social
Research Associate @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social at Newcastle Uni. PhD from @mrcepid.bsky.social, University of Cambridge. Public health nerd, korfball fanatic, ⚽ referee. All views my own
@geordanshannon.bsky.social
Translocalism & decentralised finance for planetary health CEO uhf.ch | Founder unexia.org | UCL #globalhealth
@alanjcard.bsky.social
PhD / MPH. Assistant Professor San Diego State University School of Public Health. Systems design and improvement for health and care. #PatientSafety, #QI #riskmgt, #designthinking, occupational safety/wellbeing, #academicsky. Also puns.
@spidermaani.bsky.social
Lecturer @ U of Ed GHPU, Dep Director @ UKPHI Local Health Global Profits, host @ MoneyPowerHealth, editor Commercial Determinants of Health (OUP), author of A Healthy Profit (OUP, 2026). Interested in commercial and social determinants of health
@drbeef.bsky.social
Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Prof by day. Elder emo by night. Critical public health, the science of sex(uality) science, disability justice. Not your average guy (Auti he/they).
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
Learning & Governance in Health Systems | Knowledge Practices & Epistemic Injustice in Global Health | Writer, Teacher, Researcher @sydney.edu.au
@sarahdlish.bsky.social
Executive Director @CAP2030org. #ChildHealth and #GlobalHealth @JohnsHopkinsSPH & @UCLGlobalHealth. English/French/#Hausa
@niaaluxton.bsky.social
Physio, senior lecturer, health policy & promotion, long COVID, digital health, climate change, passionate educator, kids & cats. Ever hopeful…
@simonkkatterl.bsky.social
He/him | Mental Health Law, Regulation & Human Rights Advocate | Lectures RMIT, Deakin, UTS | Bylines in the Guardian & the Age | Research: https://shorturl.at/DpKkE
@kateseselja.bsky.social
Advocate for Gambling Reform/ Speaker/ Recovery Coach, mum of 6 , Founder of The Hope Project Australia, Co-Chair GHLEE and CGRA thehopeprojectaustralia.com.au
@hdicko.bsky.social
Prof. Public service research, UNSW Canberra. Research disability policy and services. Otherwise watching Bradford City and being bossed by pets. She/her
@melissamialon.bsky.social
Research Chair (France) & HRB Fellow (Ireland) | Commercial determinants of health, Corporate Political Activity | Participatory research | French & Mauritian | Decolonisation | Feminist | Breastfeeding & mum of 2
@kathryningold.bsky.social
Consultant in public health, children and families. Leeds, UK.