About Savannah

Savannah is an experienced project manager and problem solver, using cross-sector collaboration, service design and creative facilitation to support clients in tackling systemic inequalities.

Savannah works across the Innovation Unit portfolio, with particular expertise in the social determinants of health. Her recent work spans: youth voice in sport; care experience and employment; learning programmes for cross-sector and neighbourhood health partnerships as well as anchor institutions; responses to complex challenges such as rising cost of living and frequent A&E attendance; and Uplands Systems Transformation as part of a secondment to Defra. 

As a Churchill Fellow, Savannah visited over 50 housing innovations centred on intergenerational relationships. She now advocates for intergenerational systems change and is a Board Director of the UK Cohousing Network.

Prior to joining Innovation Unit, Savannah worked in politics, including in Parliament and for a national campaigns group, and on health and social care policy with a coalition of charities.

Outside work, Savannah can be found volunteering, organising and attending LGBTQ+ events, and spending as much time around dogs as possible.