Nicholas Diamond

Nick Diamond, MPH, (he/him/his) leverages activism, storytelling, and strategic marketing communications as advocacy tools for improving the public’s health. For a decade, he has supported marketing and communications strategies and campaigns internationally for public health programs at academic medical centers and nonprofits. Nick’s work has been featured in mainstream media, as well as in two books, Pained: Uncomfortable Conversations about the Public’s Health (Oxford University Press, 2020) and The Picture of Health (APHA Press, 2022). He has interviewed the public health influencers of our time, including Anthony Fauci, Ibram X. Kendi, Sandro Galea, and Mary Bassett. Nick has advised the Adams, Hochul, and Biden administrations on health policy and communications, and he has served as an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice. He sparked his public health career in Dakar, Senegal, where he conducted interviews as a graduate student for a Public Health Post series on LGBTQ+ health. Nick holds a Master of Public Health and a Graduate Certificate in African Studies from Boston University, and he served as a Writing Fellow and Managing Editor at Public Health Post, where he launched PHPod. He is proficient in French and conversant in Wolof.