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Shona Hilton is a Professor of Health Policy and Social Innovation at the University of Strathclyde's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, concurrently serving as an Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow's School of Health and Wellbeing since January 2025. She leads the £5.3m Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC-Glasgow) initiative and directs the British Academy-funded ARRIVe project addressing neonatal infections in Tanzania.
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Glasgow, 2005)
- Master of Research in Health Promotion with Distinction (University of Strathclyde, 2001)
- Bachelor of Health Science (University of Strathclyde, 1994)
Her research focuses on dismantling health disparities through evidence-based policy interventions, specializing in health equity frameworks, antimicrobial resistance governance, and co-production methodologies. She pioneers interdisciplinary approaches bridging policy systems and community stakeholders to develop real-world solutions for non-communicable diseases and infectious disease control, with significant contributions to Scotland's health policy landscape and Tanzania's National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance.
Hilton's 133+ research outputs demonstrate consistent leadership in qualitative health research, particularly in policy network analysis and evidence implementation. Her recent work centers on developing AMR information toolkits for low-resource settings and youth-led advocacy against e-cigarette marketing.
As an academic leader, she served nine years as Deputy Director of the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at Glasgow and has successfully secured over £8.5m in research funding. She currently supervises PhD students and mentors early-career researchers while contributing to editorial boards for International Journal for Qualitative Methods, BMC Public Health, and PLOS One.
Hilton actively shapes policy through membership in the Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group Improving Scotland's Health and participation in national/international grant review panels. Her work directly advances UN Sustainable Development Goals related to health equity and sustainable communities.
