Bevan Fellow
Claire began her career in Environmental Health in London where she witnessed the impact of a wide range of health inequalities whilst regulating housing, anti-social behaviour and pollution legislation. She transitioned across into Public Health following an MPH whilst working in Plymouth in 2014. There she came across the Human Learning Systems approach to complexity which resulted in the development of the Plymouth Alliance, an innovative partnership within the substance misuse commissioning programme – a 10-year city-wide commissioned project with no KPIs.
Since 2019 she has been a systems thinker; leading projects which attempt to apply systems thinking to complex adaptive systems such as the management of green spaces in Plymouth and the causes of obesity in Cwm Taf Morgannwg. She joined CTM UHB in 2022 to lead the Whole System Approach to Healthy Weight.
Claire’s Bevan Fellowship focuses on “Embedding Human Learning Systems in the Whole Systems Approach to Healthy Weight.”
She hopes to spread the new approach of human learning systems as widely as possible, and demonstrate that taking the person centred, complexity aware approach to ingrained health issues affecting our population is a more effective way of managing public funds.
Using appreciative enquiry and systems thinking she hopes to upskill those she works with and improve health outcomes within the community she serves whilst making the approach understandable and practicable.