Dr Margaret Hannah
Margaret Hannah has been working in Fife, Scotland for 14 years, most recently as Deputy Director of Public Health. Her main areas of responsibility are in health protection and service re-design. She has been interested in health inequalities ever since she learnt about them as a medical student. The more she studied them, the more convinced she was that she should go into public health!
Margaret was part of the Healthy Public Policy Network from its inception. The network has published The Possible Scot and a number of subsequent reports, including ‘The Fifth Wave: Searching for Health in Scotland’. Her links with the International Futures Forum (IFF) have shaped her thinking in recent years and she now works as a member of IFF to promote the Fifth Wave. This work includes the development of Kitbag, a set of resources to help people grow psychologically. She is also using Three Horizons thinking to inform strategic conversations in the NHS, and using the World Model to expand people’s understanding of resilience in the face of radical change and uncertainty.