About Professional Health Forum

Our mission

Professional Health Forum (PHF) publishes plain-English health guidance from African health professionals. We believe people deserve health information they can understand, written by someone accountable for it, and we want African clinicians to have a place where their expertise reaches the public under their own names.

Who is behind PHF

PHF was founded by Thomas Whitcho, a community and clinical pharmacist in Zimbabwe. Thomas is also the author of two pharmacist-led book series, Ask the Pharmacist: Metabolic Health and Breaking the Silence: Men's Health. You can see them on our books page.

We want PHF to grow into a forum of many professionals: pharmacists, doctors, nurses, dietitians, physiotherapists and laboratory scientists. If that is you, see Write for PHF.

What you will find here

Articles organised into condition hubs: diabetes and blood sugar, weight and GLP-1 medicines, men's health, heart and blood pressure, women's health, and medicines and safety.
Free printable health trackers and a health newsletter. See free tools.
Books by our founder.

Our editorial standards in brief

Every article carries the name, profession and country of its author.
Authors are checked against the relevant professional council before publication.
Articles are based on reliable sources and, where possible, reviewed by a second professional.
Corrections are made openly and promptly.
Any financial relationship, such as sales of our founder's books, is disclosed.

Read the full editorial policy and our medical disclaimer.

What we are not