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Alex Ruani

Alex Ruani

The Health Sciences Academy; University College London

Alex Ruani is a researcher in health-diet misinformation at University College London and chief science educator at The Health Sciences Academy since 2012, where she directs large-scale educational programs in applied health, nutrition, and behavioural sciences, impacting over 100,000 practitioners across 170+ countries. She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Medicine Food & Health Council, the World Health Organisation’s Fides, and an associate at UCL’s Digital Speech Lab.

She has designed curricula for 20+ professional certifications and 70+ CPD-CEU courses, authored 50+ science reports, and led major publishing projects focused on evidence-based practice. Since 2015, she has driven the integration of empirically grounded methodologies into the Clinic Toolkit™– a multilingual, AI-supported healthtech SaaS platform enabling personalised clinical workflows through 700+ automated tools.

Alex is internationally recognised for developing MisRAM, a first-of-its-kind Misinformation Risk Assessment Model validated for professional and AI applications. She teaches health-diet misinformation detection and mitigation to clinicians and health professionals, and is a frequent keynote speaker at global academic, governmental, and industry events. Her work is regularly featured in The Times, The Guardian, the BBC, and other mainstream media outlets.

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