Jo is a medical education and communications professional with more than 15 years’ experience working for agencies in the creative and healthcare industries in London. She designs and deliver evidence-based learning and behaviour-change programmes on behalf of clients. Jo’s career to date has encompassed a wide spectrum of healthcare-related work including medical education, public relations, stakeholder engagement, patient support solutions and corporate communications.
Jo is an ardent believer in life-long learning. Her first degree was in a science-based subject but twelve years on from graduation she rekindled a love of drawing and took a degree in the History of Art and followed this with a Masters. Six years of part-time studying and working was an experience that substantially broadened her world-view and honed her critical-thinking and writing skills. This experience also opened her eyes to the benefits of cross-disciplinary thinking and practice; it heightened her awareness of how working life can often be siloed, with the knowledge of one discipline segregated from another. In the role, Jo is keenly aware of the importance of leveraging evidence bases from disciplines such as health psychology, cognitive neurosciences, behavioural sciences and graphic design as well as those from adult learning.
