Women’s Health is the UK’s number one authority on health and wellness; leading the charge in helping you create a happy, healthy and fit lifestyle.
Daily, we produce informative and educational features to support your health journey and in doing so, embrace conversation within our communities.
It’s why we’ve won PPA Consumer magazine of the year for three years running and individual team members have collected notable accolades at BSME, Digital PPA and Guild of Health Writers Awards.
But back to you. At WH we understand that wellness is unique to each and every one of you and it's why you’ll find approachable, applicable and actionable advice for all women.
We cut through the wellness noise to deliver you positive, engaging, informative content that’s based on leading expert comment and scientific research.
We know that our relationship with you is based on trust and our team of journalists and editors are not only passionate about healthy living, but also highly trained in reporting and editing on the topics you’re concerned about. From in-house PTs to contributing doctors and nutritionists, all our content is backed up by vetted experts who are leaders in their fields.
We're proud to share that today, Women’s Health (print, digital and social) has become the one-stop-wellness destination for millions of women.
The editorial team
The Women’s Health team reflects our core audience: you. It’s how we understand and translate hard-line science into informative features and news that you’ll want to read and share.
Let us introduce the team and share how you can contact them.
Claire Sanderson, Editor-in-Chief
With 25 years industry experience, Claire has held several senior roles on high-profile media brands. She currently leads editorial strategy across both Women’s Health and Men's Health, ensuring both titles retain their position as market-leaders in the fields of Health and Wellness and Men's Lifestyle, respectively. An avid gym-goer, she can hip thrust one and half times her body weight and her pet fitness hate is... running.
Nikki Osman, Editor
Since joining the Women's Health team five years ago, Nikki has perfected the art of a cynical eyebrow raise, investigating wellness trends from psychobiotics to CBD and reporting on everything from the dark side of the FODMAP diet to the impact of Covid on the UK birth rate. When she’s not editing the words you read in the print magazine, you’ll find her running around the streets of Leyton, east London, trying and failing to commit to a weekly yoga practise and performing reiki on her cats.
Bridie Wilkins, Fitness Director
Bridie looks after WH’s fitness content across digital, print, social and membership. She could – and does – talk about the benefits of exercise until the cows come home, and after eight years as a fitness journalist, trying and testing trends across the country, you can trust her judgement. Her ultimate goal? To reverse the ‘exercise for aesthetics’ rhetoric, and to prove fitness is accessible to all.
Get in touch @bridiewilkins
Georgie Lane-Godfrey, Features Director
With over a decade's worth of experience, Georgie looks after those fascinating longer reads in Women's Health magazine, as well as the helpful Know How section. At work, her interests lie in the intersection between wellness and the female experience. At home, she’s more concerned with actually managing to complete a workout without being sat on by either her dog or kids.
Alice Barraclough, Nutrition Editor
With nearly a decade of journalistic experience – in print, online and social – at national newspapers and lifestyle magazines, it’s fair to say Alice has tried it all when it comes to health and fitness. From packing herself off to an extreme Aveduric retreat in Sri Lanka and sweat-testing every new fitness fad to running the London Marathon and completing a 70.3 IronMan, Alice now looks after WH’s food content.
With a ‘food first’ ethos, she is here to help you decipher exactly which foods will support your health, and which macro-counting, pasta-replacing, intermittent-fasting, 13-day cleanse is just, well, a scam. A keen baker and host, her favourite dessert has to be pavlova (with lots of summer berries and whipped cream, of course).
Perdita Nouril, Beauty Editor
Perdita has worked in the beauty industry for 16 years, since graduating from the University of Nottingham, She has written for print and digital titles including Refinery29, Grazia, Stylist, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Style, Psychologies and Vice. She also co-hosts The Outspoken Beauty Podcast with new episodes airing every Friday, and is regularly called upon to host or speak at industry panel talks.
Adept at exploring the colossal world of beauty, she loves to scratch beneath the surface to debunk the myths, decode the science and challenge traditional notions of beauty. You can usually find her holding the industry accountable in the Women’s Health Well Opinionated column, interviewing celebrities, preaching sermons on the power of a red lip, extolling the virtues of a decent serum, and championing the very best female beauty founders. Outside of the office, you can find her running around after her small (but mighty) daughters and her loony Jack Russell, Wilson.
Isabelle Knevett, Fashion Editor
After working in the entertainment industry, Isabelle's move to the world of fashion means she has a wealth of knowledge around performance-ready kit. She writes everything from the hottest trends to try, reviews on viral products, feature stories in the world of fashion and the latest news you need to know. If she's not writing about fashion, she's reading about it – or in a dance class.
Jessica O'Donnell, Ecommerce Editor
Jessica is Women’s Health’s ecommerce editor and covers shopping content that spans across beauty, gym wear, fitness, health, and travel. On a daily basis, Jessica is writing first person reviews, in-depth buying guides and covering any sales or exciting new launches the WH reader wouldn’t want to miss.
Get in touch @JessicaJeanODonnell
Kate Cheng, Health & Fitness Writer
Kate puts together content that covers functional and strength training, aerobic exercise, workout challenges, interviews and news. When she’s not doing gym laundry, she’s probably shopping for secondhand outfits or listening to music.
To contact the team please put their name in the subject line and email [email protected]
Experts Women's Health trusts
Registered dietitians
Laura Tilt, R.D., spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association (BDA); Priya Tew, R.D., Winner of the BDA’s Media Spokesperson of the Year; Rick Miller, R.D., clinical & sports dietitian; Megan Rossi, PhD, R.D., BHSc, Research Fellow at King’s College London; Rhiannon Lambert, RNutr., BSc, MSc, founder of leading Harley Street clinic Rhitrition; Alice Mackintosh, RNutr. therapist based in Chelsea and on governing board of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT) and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC); Louise Symington, MSc, BSc, R.D., Brighton-based dietitian; Rupy Aujla, M.D., creator of the UK’s first ‘Culinary Medicine’ course, accredited by the Royal College of General Practice.
Women’s reproductive health professionals
Dr Anita Mitra, BSc(Hons), MBChb, PhD, ob-gyn based in London; Dr Lisa Owens, M.D., endocrinologist at King’s College London; Dr Channa Jayasena. M.A., PhD, MRCP, FRCPath, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Reproductive Endocrinology and Andrology at Imperial College & Hammersmith Hospital, London; Professor Andrew Horne, MB ChB, PhD, FRCOG, FRCP, Professor of Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Edinburgh; Dr Louise Newson, M.D., member of the International Menopause Society and the British Menopause Society; HCA Healthcare UK.
Mental health experts
Dr Sarah Vohra, consultant psychiatrist, bestselling author and founder of The Mind Medic; Dr Chi-Chi Obuaya MB BS BSc MRCPsych MBA, consultant psychiatrist for the NHS; Dr Jessamy Hibberd, BSc, MSc, DClinPsy, PgDip, chartered clinical psychologist and bestselling author; Dr Kimberley Wilson, chartered psychologist and governor of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Mental Health Trust; Dr Tara Swart, M.D., PhD, neuroscientist, leadership coach, former psychiatrist, now Faculty at MIT & King’s College London; Dr Pete Olusoga, BPS Chartered Psychologist & Senior Lecturer in Sport Psychology & Coaching, Sheffield Hallam University.
Cardiology experts
Dr Amanda Varnava, M.A., M.D., FRCP, consultant cardiologist with Imperial College Healthcare.
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