Handbook of Settings-Based Health Promotion

Sami Kokko is an Associate Professor in Health Promotion and the Director of Research Center for Health Promotion at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is a member of the Nordic Health Promotion Research Network and the Global Working Group on Healthy Settings at the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE).

Sami’s main research interests are settings-based health promotion, especially in sports club settings, and physical activity/sports-related topics. He has worked at the University of Jyväskylä for almost twenty years and his publications have contributed not only to science, but also to health and physical activity promotion policy and practice.

Michelle Baybutt is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Sustainable Health and Justice, Co-director of the Healthy and Sustainable Settings Unit (HSSU) and Prisons Strand Lead for the Centre for Criminal Justice Research Partnerships at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. She is a member of the Global Working Group on Healthy Settings at the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) and is Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education.

Michelle’s academic expertise linking health promotion practice with research and knowledge exchange forms an academic narrative around prisons as a setting for fostering health and wellbeing; notably, the duality of governance/prison health systems and implementation of sustainable public health interventions. Michelle has extensive health promotion and public health expertise working with people in prisons and those with experience of prison in the wider community. She is committed to improving the health and opportunities of people who are socially excluded or marginalised, and to addressing health inequalities and social injustice.