Natalie has been invited to contribute to a range of initiatives because of her knowledge of systems thinking, including as a member of the scientific advisory board to the UK Prevention Research Partnership and part of the special interest group who generated an open access complex systems frameworks portal. She is a co-author on the much-cited, award-winning Lancet paper ‘Why we need a complex systems model of evidence for public health’. Natalie’s experience includes:

• Evaluation of homelessness provision for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Leading our component of a multi-million-pound, multi-year evaluation of homelessness provision for the government. This includes not just system mapping but also applying systems thinking across the programme of work.

• Evaluation of Healthy Communities Together for The National Lottery Community Fund. Directing our work, which uses a systems framework, to evaluate cross-sector partnership working in five sites funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. Outputs include this online mapping presentation.

• Public Health Wales Shaping Places for Wellbeing in Wales (SPWW). Co-designing SPWW and directing the evaluation support for it.

• Public Health Wales Whole System Approach to Healthy Weight. Providing consultancy and evaluation of PHW’s healthy weight programme, using systems approaches.

• Programme evaluation of Vital 5 for Guy’s & St Thomas’. Providing systems consultancy for our evaluation of segments of the Vital 5 programme.

• IMMANA (UK Aid and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) CLOVE Study. Working with researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in Beirut to map the food assistance system in Lebanon.

• The Health Foundation, Shaping Places for Healthier Lives. Used a systems approach to optimise provision to tackle food insecurity amongst young people, which is already driving changes to the food landscape in the borough.

• West Northamptonshire Council. Provided systems expertise to a collaboration led by the public health team at this unitary council aimed at improving their immigration provision.

• NIHR, Family Food Experience Study. Led the system mapping segment of this project, with stakeholders and residents of four London boroughs, to identify engagement with existing interventions, exploring reasons for persistently high childhood obesity prevalence and widening inequalities.

• London Borough of Newham. Led system mapping and provided consultancy for a cross-sector initiative aimed at streamlining services for people with ‘no recourse to public funds’ in in the borough.

• European Commission Horizon 2020, CO-CREATE. In her previous role at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, led the system mapping workstream in this €10million research project on adolescent obesity, ensuring a systems framework for the entire project, across six countries, training researchers and producing reports for the EC and peer-reviewed publications.

With a background in media and academia, Natalie is versed in working with and presenting complex concepts to different audiences, from high-level executives and policymakers to service recipients and children. She naturally combines the rigour required of important research and evaluation, with fluent, clear communication across a variety of formats.

Natalie has a BA in Social Anthropology and Arabic (Cambridge), an MA in Medical Anthropology (Sussex), an MPhil in Public Health (Cambridge) and a PhD in Public Health (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine).