About Speaker

Sarah Stewart-Brown is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the University of Warwick. She is a public health doctor whose career has spanned academic and service practice and now includes consultancy, coaching and wellbeing teaching and training. Her research underpinned her leadership in neglected aspects of public health including public mental health. Early in her career Sarah worked in the UK NHS in paediatrics and in public health giving her practical experience of health care as well as expertise in research and teaching. She has published over 250 peer review journal publications, books, book chapters and reports. She holds a PhD from Bristol University and is a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal College of Physicians of London. She has advised English, Scottish and Welsh Governments on public mental health. In 2015 Sarah was awarded the prestigious Wilfred Harding Prize by the Faculty of Public Health in recognition of her contribution to and leadership in public health. Sarah has been curious, about the human potential for wellbeing from early adulthood and has engaged with this agenda from a personal and interpersonal perspective as well as an academic one. She has been a student of the Ridhwan School of Human Development for 15 years, trained to teach a bodywork called Zero Balancing, recently completed Philip Shepherd’s Embodied Present Process training and is now offering his Radical Wholeness workshops in the UK. She now offers coaching, experiential teaching in small groups, consultancy and lectures to support others who want to explore wellbeing in the context of their work, home, health and relationships.