Where it all started.
Husband and wife team, James and Victoria Evans, started Student Health Guide following a conversation with close friend and GP, Dr Will Swallow, who questioned why teen health was usually delivered in silos rather than holistically. Dr Will gave the example of individual leaflets about specific health topics in his surgery and suggested that because more health issues are interlinked, it would be better to have a magazine aimed at teenagers, which covered the whole spectrum of health and wellbeing. And so Student Health Guide was born, with a university edition following soon after.
Since then, the Student Health Guide magazines have been used by hundreds of schools, colleges and universities across two continents.
Our experience.
SHG has three founding team members, with overlapping skills as well as their own unique areas of expertise.
Dr Will knows first-hand that health education for young people is too fragmented. For example, information about sexual health, anxiety, depression, relationships, or hygiene would have their own posters, flyers, and websites. He believes passionately that for young people especially, these issues are heavily interlinked and should be treated as such.
James’ background is road safety education for young people. FirstCar magazine, which he first published from his Kent sixth form common room whilst learning to drive almost 20 years ago, is now the magazine that over two million new drivers in the UK receives from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) each year, when passing their theory and driving tests.
Victoria Evans is a lawyer and writer with a keen interest in health. She studied law at the University of Surrey before attending Law School in Guildford and qualified whilst working at Clyde & Co in 2015.