Interests

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Since 2005, I have worked in the prevention of non-communicable disease (NCD) - in a nutshell, making it easier to be healthy: physical activity, better diet, and quitting smoking - since 2017 as a freelance consultant. Nothing makes me happier than getting my teeth into a good writing project, or using my extensive experience in this area to provide strategy advice.

 

I am passionate about making it easier to be healthy - which, as we all know, is no simple task. I have particular interests in the impact of the environment (the links between unhealthy lifestyles and climate change), on cities and health, and on human rights (in which I previously worked as a consultant at Maplecroft and for the International Business Leaders Forum, and in which I have a Masters from the LSE).

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Skills

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• Research/writing

• Making connections across traditional 'silos' in health (not least including Covid-19)  – striving for a ‘whole-of-government, whole-of-society’ approach to NCD prevention, as advocated by the UN and WHO

• Network building and partnership working 

• Communications, including social media – I am personally very active on Twitter and curate the website and Twitter account of the UK Working Group on NCDs

• Copy-editing – I began my career as a copy-editor for academic publishers including Cambridge University Press

• Presenting at events (national and international)

• Strategy advice

• Project managing

• Events management – even when, as happened in 2010, a volcano strands most of the organising team half way around the world…

 

Recent portfolio of work

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Since becoming freelance, clients have included:

• UK: C3 Collaborating for Health, Cancer Research UK, Global Action Plan, Obesity Health Alliance, SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange, Sussex Cricket Foundation (trustee), World Cancer Research Fund International, World Obesity

• Europe: Access to Nutrition Initiative, Danish Red Cross, International Red Cross, the NCD Alliance, WHO/Europe 

• Elsewhere: Framework Convention Alliance (Canada) and VicHealth (Australia).

• Previously, while at C3, I worked with organisations including The Health Foundation, Novo Nordisk and Bupa.

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There is a detailed list of my writing work here and, in addition, my consulting portfolio in 2021 includes:

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• Scoping report and roundtable on NCDs in humanitarian situations, with the ICRC Centre for Psychosocial Support 

• Chair of the UK Working Group on NCDs, including organising and  chairing monthly meetings, managing social media, organising a Parliamentary event, co-organising an event at Chatham House, overseeing a project on NCDs and international development, and writing briefing papers)

• Policy and strategy advising for World Obesity

• Writing for the Access to Nutrition Initiative, including on Covid-19 and the global food industry and on the UK supermarkets and nutrition

• Contributing to a podcast on marketing to children

• Rapporteur for three meetings of WHO/Europe (on healthy and sustainable diets, on the out-of-home food sector and on videogames and NCDs)

 

Previous projects include:​

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• Six-month consultancy with WCRF International, drawing up a methods document for a scan of physical activity and nutrition policies in Europe

• Lead rapporteur (heading a team of session rapporteurs) at the  Global NCD Alliance Forum (Sharjah - December 2017 and February 2020), including organising a team of youth volunteers to rapporteur the parallel session

• Researching and writing a report for VicHealth in Melbourne on digital marketing to children

• Presenting on workplace health in low- and middle-income countries at the International Conference on Urban Health (Portugal) and the Global NCD Alliance Forum 

• Consultancy on engagement and proofreading for the Healthy New Towns (NHS England) final report, as part of a Town and Country Planning Association consortium

• Advising on obesity and physical activity in Newham, east London

• Key stakeholder interviews (e.g. for the Food Foundation, Global Action Plan and a project on social prescribing)

• Co-chairing event on workplace health, at CREATE Design architects

• Presenting to SMEs on the health impacts of air pollution in London

• Assessing the website of a new online network of professionals in design and the environment, including writing FAQs 

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