Hannah is one of two interim Programme Directors for DigitalHealth.London’s Accelerator Programme. She is jointly responsible for programme delivery, which supports 20-30 high potential start-ups and SMEs each year to develop and deploy solutions to some of the most pressing challenges facing the NHS.
Prior to joining the Accelerator, she was working as a Darzi Fellow in children’s and maternity commissioning at NHS Greenwich CCG.
Hannah qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2002 and worked primarily in East London, in both the NHS and the private sector. During this time she also coordinated a health-based community project supporting young people in Tower Hamlets.
Hannah is interested in the social determinants of health and a wider cross-sector approach to population health. She has an MSc in Social Epidemiology at the London School of Economics, for which she received a prize for Outstanding Academic Performance and a Public Health England Award for her research project.
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