About the Editorial team

Audrey Ceschia is the Editor-in-Chief. Audrey completed her PhD in Biology and Health in 2005 at the University of Montpellier, France. After working in cell biology as a post-doctoral scientist at the Clinical Science Center, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London, in 2008, she joined The Lancet journals, first as a Senior Editor for The Lancet Oncology in 2008 and then as a Senior Editor at The Lancet in 2013. Audrey has a broad interest in health, health policy, and current affairs. She has worked on a wide variety of health topics, with a broad public health and global health perspective (eg, cancer care in high-income countries, maternal health, FGM, and France’s health system).

John Carson is the Senior Editor. John completed his PhD in Ecology at the University of Edinburgh and went on to work as a post-doctoral research at the University of Reading. In 2016 he became one of the launch editors of the journal Nature Human Behaviour (NHB) and in his time there took on a broad portfolio of disciplines. After being promoted to Senior Editor at NHB, John developed a keen interest in research with real-world impacts, which lead him to take Public Health, Epidemiology, and Behavioural Medicine into his core areas of responsibility. John joined the team at The Lancet Public Health as a Senior Editor in 2019. He has a special interest in the power of behaviour change research and evidence-based health policy.