Biography
Professor Holly Blake is Professor of Behavioural Medicine and a Chartered Health Psychologist at the University of Nottingham, and an Honorary Professor at Queen’s University Belfast. She is an internationally recognised scholar in workforce health and behavioural medicine, ranked among the world’s top researchers (ScholarGPS® Top 0.3%; Stanford Top 2%). Her work spans occupational health, self‑management of chronic conditions, and digital innovations for health and wellbeing.
Her research has had significant global reach and policy influence. It features in the Chief Nursing Officer for England’s COVID‑19 Research Portfolio and has been cited across 150 policy documents in North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia. Her contributions have informed best practice in organisations including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. She is also the 2024 winner of the UK HiddenREF Communicative Outputs award for research impact, recognising the real‑world benefits of her digital health innovations, which are accessed worldwide.
Professor Blake has over 30 years’ experience in public health and health services research. She leads programmes on workforce wellbeing, behavioural interventions, and the design and implementation of complex health programmes across public, private and third‑sector settings. A consistent theme in her work is the use of digital technologies including e‑health, m‑health, AI, and digital learning tools to support health promotion, behaviour change and chronic disease self‑management.
She is Principal Fellow of AdvanceHE, Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, Fellow and Trustee of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education, and Fellow of the British Psychological Society.