Our goal for healthier lives
We understand the importance of a world that recognises and protects the most vulnerable and acknowledges the importance of a healthy mind as well as a healthy body. Our ethos is one of equity and helping researchers move beyond the restrictions of traditional subject disciplines.
We aim to support the work and respond to the needs of researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, service users and their families and carers by bridging the gap that can exist between research and practice and different disciplines to achieve good physical and mental health. Focusing on the social and economic factors that contribute to good health (including no poverty or hunger, clean air, water and sanitation, shelter, universal healthcare and the reduction of health inequalities), we aim to help research influence real world change in people’s health and wellbeing.
Martin Whiteford, Publishing development manager, Healthier lives.
Our goals: Fairer society | Healthier lives | Responsible management | Quality education for all | Sustainable structures and infrastructures
If you're an author, researcher, or someone who cares as much as we do, we would love to work with you, and help your research to bring about healthier lives for all. Get in touch.
Our goal to achieve healthier lives
We champion research that promotes more equitable access to health interventions and health systems, and thereby influences real world change in people’s health and well-being.
How does behaviour impact health and wellbeing?
In our mission to better understand behaviour change on health and well-being, we ask a number of questions.
Healthier lives gateway
This gateway sits on our open access platform, Emerald Open Research. All research published within the gateway is freely available to read, download and share.
Introducing International Perspectives on Health Equity
Aligned to UN SDG 3, good health and well-being, this fully open access journal will advance knowledge and understanding to help achieve global health equity. Co-edited by Dr Rebecca Schiff, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada and Dr Shaouli Shahid, Curtin University, Australia, research is welcomed that engages, advances, challenges and reframes debates about healthy equity.
Calls for papers
Browse the latest calls for papers in the area of healthier lives.
Opinion & blogs
We welcome contributions from academics, policymakers and professionals about key issues in their area of work. If you have a blog you would like to share, let us know.
News & press
Below we have a collection of news articles centred around aspects of healthier lives.
Other resources
Browse our other offerings below.
Case studies
Global teaching materials to engage and inspire. Students can test their assumptions and decision-making skills about real world problems.
Expert Briefings
We've teamed up with Oxford Analytica to deliver Expert Briefings through Emerald Insight. Read unbiased analyses on world events and their potential political, social and economic effects here.
Content alerts
Stay connected to the latest research, delivered directly to your inbox.
ScienceOpen Collection
We've partnered with ScienceOpen to create a healthier lives collection that will be updated regularly to reflect our latest mission-related content.
Your publishing development team
Dr Martin Whiteford
I’m the Publishing development manager for Healthier Lives, working across Emerald’s publishing programmes for SDG-aligned research on improving health and wellbeing. I also support researchers and institutions in open research publishing, with responsibility for Emerald’s Open Research Gateway for Healthier Lives.
Billie Bonevski – Goal advisor
Billie Bonevski is a behavioural scientist, and Professor and Lead of Public Health at Flinders University, South Australia. She is interested in chronic disease prevention and her research is focused on designing and evaluating health behaviour change interventions that have real-world impact. Her research targets population groups at high risk of disease due to sociodemographic, clinical, or cultural factors. Billie is committed to promoting health equity and communicating science.