Building health through the economy and the economy through health
10.15-11.15am
Room: G9A
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This session will explore how we can take a whole-system approach to improving health outcomes and economic resilience in tandem. It builds on the broader conversation around public value, asking how local and regional actors can embed health into economic strategy – and vice versa. We’ll hear about pioneering work to make health and wealth two sides of the same coin – using the levers available to local authorities to actively intervene and support community wellbeing as a matter of duty, not just aspiration.
The panel will also consider how devolution offers a unique opportunity to reframe local economic development with health at its core, particularly in light of the statutory duty on integrated care systems (ICSs) to reduce health inequalities. We’ll ask what this means in practice and how these responsibilities can be used to drive more joined-up approaches.
Through practical examples and discussion, this session will highlight how local systems can move from ambition to action, aligning economic planning and health improvement to deliver better outcomes for people and places.
Speakers
Tom Lloyd Goodwin (Chair) is CLES’s Deputy Chief Executive and joined the organisation in 2018. With a background in political economy and political theory, as well as health services research, Tom is an experienced public policy professional. Since completing his PhD in 2009, Tom has worked with numerous organisations across academia, local government, the NHS and the voluntary and community sector, delivering an array of research and local economic development projects. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester. Tom is a regular contributor to the New Statesman, the Municipal Journal, Local Government Chronicle, the Health Services Journal and The Guardian.
Dave Boulger is the Associate Director of Population Health at NHS Greater Manchester where he has worked for the past 7 years, initially as part of England’s only devolved health and care system and now as an Integrated Care System. Prior to his current role, Dave has spent almost two decades working across various parts of the public sector in Greater Manchester including Local Government, Criminal Justice, Social Care and the VCFSE, often in the most deprived areas of the city-region. Dave is passionate about tackling inequalities and improving outcomes for those who experience the greatest barriers to good health.
Rachael Musgrave is Director of Public Health at Wigan Council. She joined the Council in August 2022 bringing with her over twenty years of public sector leadership experience. Rachael started her career as a health improvement manager, before quickly progressing into leadership roles within Public Health. Since becoming Director of Public Health in 2022, Rachael has worked with partners to develop a new vision for public health in Wigan.
Claire Humphries is Delivery Manager – Improving Health & Reducing Inequalities Mayoral Regions Programme (MRP) at the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). The MRP is 3-year programme funded by the Health Foundation that is being delivered by a team within the WMCA in partnership with 8 other mayoral regional authorities across England. Its aim is to support these authorities to use their devolved powers and regional levers to improve health and reduce inequalities. Claire leads the programme’s central team to drive action across member regions, providing direct support, catalysing collective influence, and adding capacity to partners through consultancy activity.
Sophie Clarke is Managing Director of We are Juno, a not-for-profit children’s residential care service, creating a sustainable alternative to profit-driven models that dominate the children’s residential landscape. She is overseeing the launch of Juno’s homes and strategic direction. Sophie has worked across the Liverpool City Region on projects including Early Help for Families, Care Leaver opportunity building and driving family and young people-led services.
Jesse Edwards is Head of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. His main areas of interest are both the literary aspects of geography and the geographic aspects of literature. He is also heavily involved in the Creative Health GM Place Partnership, drawing on creativity, creative practices and creative methodologies to improve population health outcomes.
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