About Perspectives in Public Health

Our bi-monthly journal combines public health research and reviews with practice-based articles.

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Perspectives in Public Health is a bi-monthly journal, combining peer-reviewed research and reviews with practice-based current topic and opinion articles, news and views, case studies, book reviews, and updates on the latest work from RSPH. 

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5-year Impact Factor

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Editorial Board

The Perspectives in Public Health Editorial Board is made up of a distinguished panel of public health experts from around the world.

  • Theodore Stickley PhD MA DipCouns. DipN PGCHE AMRSPH RMN 

    Theo Stickley trained as a mental health nurse and therapeutic counsellor. He has practised and taught both professions. He worked for nearly twenty years at the University of Nottingham.

    He is a qualitative researcher and the main focus of his research in the last 20 years has been the arts and health, mostly focusing upon the mental health benefits of engaging with arts activities and has published widely on this topic and on human relations in nursing. Theo is now a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Mental Health in Nottingham. He now befriends asylum seekers and refugees and continues his arts practices. 

    Joanna Saunders MPH CertHSM FRSPH 

    Joanna worked as an Honorary Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University from 2016-2021 as part of a multidisciplinary team developing and testing Public Health England's Whole Systems Approach to tackling Obesity. Following publication of the guide and supporting material in 2019, Joanna and the team supported a number of local government and health organisations across England and Scotland in implementing whole systems approaches to complex public health problems.

    Before working at LBU, she has over 25 years’ experience working in senior health improvement management roles in the NHS and local government in South Yorkshire; developing, commissioning and managing a wide range of health improvement services including award-winning integrated healthy weight services.

    Prior to working in PH she worked in health services administration and management. Joanna has been a Fellow of RSPH for a number of years and a member of the Editorial Board of PPH since 2012. Joanna has a MPH from Sheffield Hallam University and a Certificate in Health Services Management from the same institution when it was a Polytechnic. 

    • Catherine Homer PhD, FRSPH 
    • Duncan Radley BSc(Hons) PhD FRSPH 

    • David Buck FRSPH 

    • Lisa Ackerley BSc(Hons) PhD CMCIEH FRSPH MIFHT 

    • Sarah Johnson Griffiths FFPH, UKPHR, FRSPH 

    • Shriti Pattani MBChB, BSc, DRCOG, MRCGP, DFFP, FFOM, FRSPH 

    • Federico Jose Armando Cueto Eulert PhD, FRSPH (Sweden) 

    • Kate Frazer BSc MPH HDipHRM RGN PhD FRSPH (Ireland) 

    • Shazia Jamshed PhD FRSPH (Malaysia) 

    • Ranjit Khutan BA(Hons) MSc MPH PhD HonFRSPH 

    • Louisa Ells BSc(Hons) PhD RNutr FRSPH 

    • Jim McManus OCDS CPsychol CSci AFBPsS FFPH, FRSB CharteredFCIPD FRSPH 

    • Michael Chang - FRTPI, HonMFPH FRSPH 

    • Ranjita Dhital -MSc, PhD, MRPharmS, FHEA, FRSPH