Who we are
David Scoffield
David is a fine art graduate who has worked creatively in voluntary sector community development and mental health projects, including city farms, canal boats, community gardens and related social enterprises. Having developed and run innovative ecotherapy projects for Mind his awareness of the benefits to wellbeing of access to nature in urban settings has brought him to CSH as manager of the Outer Space project.
Sally Aston
Jacqueline Cutting
Jacqueline is a fundraiser with extensive experience of the third sector. She worked for Oxfam for 10 years, managing the organisation's Trusts and Institutional funding, and as a freelance fundraiser. Most recently she set up fundraising for an Oxford-based theatre, and advised a national charity on fundraising for dementia care before joining CSH.
Sarah Dandy
Sarah leads the NHS Forest Project at CSH. She graduated from Kings College, London with a master’s degree in Environmental Development and then joined the Environmental Protection programme of DEFRA. She spent three years working as a Sustainability Advisor for an environmental consultancy. This role included giving sustainable construction advice to developers, updating the Ministry of Defence’s sustainability assessment tool and project managing a series of environmental monitoring programmes. Sarah is a qualified Ecohomes and Code for Sustainable Homes assessor.
Frances Mortimer
Frances left specialist training in renal medicine in 2008 to work in sustainable healthcare. She is the Medical Director of the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, with a particular interest in engaging doctors in training and medical students in greening clinical practice.
Tamara Rayment
Tamara qualified as an OT in 2002, and has practiced in both physical and mental health NHS settings. During a career break from OT, after having a child, Tamara worked at Women’s Environmental Network, initially on the Real Nappy project’s and later coordinating WEN’s climate change project, The Three Tonne Club (3TC) Handbook. http://www.wen.org.uk/climatechange/projects.htm.
In 2009 Tamara brought her skills in OT and sustainability to The Campaign for Greener Healthcare, establishing The Green Occupational Therapy Network. Tamara returned to OT in 2010 and now practices at East London NHS Foundation Trust; she continues to contribute to the development of OT Susnet (formerly The Green Occupational Therapy Network).
As a 2010 London Leader for Sustainability, Tamara hopes to use her growing knowledge of environmental and social justice, sustainability and climate change, to enhance her clinical practice and help transform OT into a more sustainable profession, which contributes to the NHS sustainability agenda. http://www.londonsdc.org/londonleaders/profile.aspx?ID=41
Rachel Stancliffe
Rachel is the Director of The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, graduated from Oxford with a Human Sciences degree and then received a Master’s degree in demography and epidemiology from the London School of Economics. She worked in public health initiatives in the UK, Georgia and Kazakhstan before helping to develop The Cochrane Library during the first decade of its life. She is also a Director of the charity, Global Healthcare Information Network.
Mark Starr
Mark has a doctorate in psychology from University of Pennsylvania, He has been active in Evidence Based Medicine, and developed the software both to support the infrastructure of the Cochrane Collaboration, and to manage the authoring and publishing of systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions. Update Software, the company he set up to manage this, was the creator and publisher of the Cochrane Library for its first fifteen years. The Cochrane Library is now the 6th most cited medical publication in the world. His current interests are in the development of sustainable care pathways and the measurement of the environmental impacts of health services (as opposed to healthcare organisations).
Ingeborg Steinbach
Ingeborg received her first degree in nutrition. She worked in an Integrated Rural Nutrition Programme in Zambia before doing her Master’s degree in Analysis for Healthcare Decisions at the London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene. She leads the work within the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare on the management of knowledge.
Ben Whittaker
Ben is an occupational therapist working in mental health services in Worthing. He has been involved with various action and campaigning groups relating to climate change and sustainability on a local and national level. Ben was co-lead of the Green Occupational Therapy Network and is lead for the Occupational Therapy Sustainable Practice Network. He is proposing an expansion of the occupational therapy paradigm to incorporate sustainable global wellbeing and is researching its practical applications.