Joanne Vance

Our Director provides strategic leadership, to ensure organisational sustainability by working alongside our members to promote inclusion and improve health and wellbeing. She believes in the power of community development and the value of having people and community voices in the decisions that affect their health and lives. With a background in social research and policy evaluation, Joanne is passionate about ending health inequalities and improving access to services. She holds an MSc in Economic Policy Studies and has extensive experience in building effective partnerships between communities, voluntary organisations and statutory services to support evidence-informed, co-created regional health promotion and prevention initiatives and locally driven change.