Dr Ann Hemingway

Dr Ann Hemingway is Professor of Public Health and Wellbeing at Bournemouth University UK. Ann`s research is focused on the reduction of inequities in health and wellbeing through public health action. Ann is regularly commissioned to undertake international, and UK based research and is a regular author in international scientific journals.

Professor Hemingway has been studying the horse human relationship for the last 10 years and works with a multidisciplinary group of researchers to explore the outcomes and impacts of equine and nature assisted services.

She has recently published a first for the global evidence on this area an observational study which has shown a reduction in domestic violence in families following attending an equine assisted service. She is an invited member of equine assisted services practitioner groups in the UK and globally.