Nick Diamond has led strategic marketing and communications for a decade internationally at academic medical centers and nonprofits. He is Co-Founder of Ctrl+F, LLC, a consulting group that combines creativity with rigor to address the public health challenges of our time. Nick is Co-Investigator of RESPND-MI, partnering with an agency on a multilingual health education and communications campaign, which won a national award for its work responding to an outbreak of mpox in New York City’s queer and trans communities. He is a Judicial Intern with the Honorable W. Franc Perry in the New York County Supreme Court, Mental Hygiene Part.

Nick co-developed briefs to advise 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. Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign referenced Public Health Post while Nick grew readership of the publication as Managing Editor. Nick served as a guest lecturer and as an adjunct instructor at colleges and universities across the country.

His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Associated Press, New York Magazine, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The Hill, U.S. News & World Report, STAT, WGBH, 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 has published in Harvard Public Health Magazine, Harvard Medicine News, POZ, The Body, PLOS Global Public Health, Governing Magazine, and Innovators Magazine. Nick has interviewed the public health influencers of our time, including Anthony Fauci and Ibram X. Kendi.

He sparked his public health career in Dakar, Senegal, where he conducted interviews as a graduate student for a series of articles on LGBTQ health. Nick 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. He is a student in the Pipeline to Justice Program at The City University of New York School of Law, and he holds a Master of Public Health and a Graduate Certificate in African Studies from Boston University. Nick is proficient in French and conversant in Wolof.

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