Dr Catherine Hannaway DProf. RN RM(ret.)RHV

Director, Global Health Consultant

Catherine has worked in ‘health systems leadership development’ and ‘quality improvement’ for over 25 years and has a well-earned reputation for designing and running creative and insightful programmes on leadership,  team-building, partnership working and quality improvement skills in the UK and globally across a wide spectrum of public and private sector organisations, in particular leading work for Durham University.

From May 2017, Catherine worked for the ‘All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health’ with Lord Nigel Crisp and Baroness Mary Watkins, together with the World Health Organisation and the International Council of Nurses setting-up, launching (with their Patron, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge), and then as Acting Executive Campaign Director she got the 3 year global campaign 'Nursing Now' up and running across the world.  Following on from the Campaign, Catherine focussed on her particular interest of leadership development, working with young Nurses and Midwives in Northern Ireland and across the globe. She travelled extensively, invited to give inspiring presentations at international conferences and high-level policy meetings.

Catherine was commissioned by the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) to design and deliver a number of leadership programmes in Qatar, followed by the commissioned lead for the global report ‘Nurses for Health Equity, Tackling the Social Determinants of Health’(2021), working alongside Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Dr Billy Rosa and a team from Northern Ireland and Qatar.

Over many years, Catherine held senior roles in the NHS in England alongside various international roles.  She was a senior fellow at Durham University in the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health where she worked as National Programme Director for 10 years and led their work on ‘Health in All Policies’ globally, working as a consultant to the WHO Collaborating Centre. Catherine’s international work led her to be a Special Advisor to the World Health Organisation, delivering programmes across the world (from Uzbekistan to Suriname, Copenhagen, the Philippines, the Caribbean...and many more), as well as working on leadership development in several parts of Africa, India, Pakistan, Jamaica amongst others. She was a Visiting Lecturer at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and worked extensively with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), USA.

Catherine has Post Graduate qualifications in Health Care Commissioning and in Education, and also worked as a National Programme Director for the NHS Modernisation Agency. She contributed to the leadership teams for the set-up of many innovative NHS programmes, include, Health Promoting Hospitals, NHS Direct, NHS Walk-in Centres, NHS Collaboratives etc.

Catherine is an Executive Coach and Mentor, a qualified practitioner of a number of development tools, including MBTI, Belbin Team Roles, Blanchard Situational Leadership, NHS Leadership 360 Assessment amongst others. She is well known for running inspiring workshops and programmes on developing personal and team effectiveness nationally and internationally that are both enjoyable and enlightening. She is an Associate of the Northern Ireland Health & Social Care Leadership Centre.

She is an Honorary Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health in recognition of her outstanding contribution to public health systems leadership development over many years, a Fellow of the ‘Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland’ and an alumni member of the Windsor Leadership Trust.

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