Nicholas Diamond, MPH, specializes in law, policy, public health, and strategic marketing and communications, bringing a decade of international experience at academic medical centers and nonprofits. He is a student in the Pipeline to Justice Program at The City University of New York School of Law, a Judicial Intern with the Honorable W. Franc Perry in the New York County Supreme Court, and Communications Chair of New York State Bar Association’s LGBTQ+ Law Section. Nick co-founded Ctrl+F, LLC, a consulting group that combines creativity with rigor to address the public health challenges of our time. As Co-Investigator of RESPND-MI, he partnered with an agency on a multilingual health education and communications campaign that won a national award for responding to an mpox outbreak in New York City’s queer and trans communities. 

Nick co-developed policy briefs advising the Adams, Hochul, and Biden administrations on health policy and communications, and he testified as an expert witness at the U.S. Department of Justice. As Managing Editor of Public Health Post, he expanded readership, earning a reference from Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign. Nick lectured as a guest speaker and taught as an adjunct instructor of public health at colleges and universities across the country.

His work appears in The New York Times, The Associated Press, New York Magazine, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Hill, U.S. News & World Report, CBS News, NBC News, and National Public Radio, as well as in three books: Pained: Uncomfortable Conversations about the Public's Health (Oxford University Press, 2020), The Picture of Health (APHA Press, 2022), and The Turning Point: Reflections on a Pandemic (Oxford University Press, 2024). Nick published in Harvard Public Health Magazine, Harvard Medicine News, POZ, The Body, PLOS Global Public Health, Governing Magazine, and Innovators Magazine. He interviewed the public health influencers of our time, including Anthony Fauci and Ibram X. Kendi.

Nick sparked his public health career in Dakar, Senegal, where he conducted interviews as a graduate student for a series of articles on LGBTQ health. He sparked his legal career after years of community organizing, building a tenant association and filing pro se in New York City Housing Court against their landlord as an action for required repairs. Nick holds a Master of Public Health and a Graduate Certificate in African Studies from Boston University. He is proficient in French and conversant in Wolof.

Nick lives in Harlem with his husband, Keletso Makofane, and their dog, Brooklyn.