The team at the Institute for Social Marketing & Health carry out a wide range of studies on alcohol, tobacco, and other environmental and lifestyle factors that impact on health and disease. Much of our work is within Scotland and the rest of the UK, but a growing percentage of our research is carried out with colleagues and collaborators across the globe. We sat down on Monday to look at our global impact and produced a long list of current projects that we lead or contribute to, and recent journal publications involving international partnerships. To name but a few, we are involved in studies on: alcohol marketing in Uganda and Malawi; how to encourage smoking parents to create a smoke-free home in Malaysia; health warnings on cigarettes in India; and gathering data on air pollution levels using low-cost instruments in Gambia, Nigeria and Kenya. In total we have ongoing or planned collaborations in 51 countries across six continents (we’re yet to do work in Antarctica!)

The work we do at ISMH is internationally important. Get in touch if you want to know more.