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Health For All

One Health closed doors in 2021 after 15 years of working hard to further our mission to stop the number one killer today – the rising chronic disease rates in vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally.

We worked as consultants, problem solvers and mentors with a wide variety of changemakers from local communities, NGOs and health & social services to solve complex public health issues.

Collaboration, systems thinking and community agency are core to our approach.

Free Resource Based on 15 years of work in the sector

The Radical Guide to Collaboration is based on the hard learnings and personal stories of a team of six people across three very different organisations in Australia who came together to find systems-level solutions for community health challenges. We called this guide radical because unlike most guides on collaboration we’re openly sharing what went wrong in our project, what our hard lessons were and how others can avoid them. We’ve tried to get beyond motherhood statements and surface sentiments to talk about the sticky, challenging reality of working closely with other human beings who may have different backgrounds, languages, needs, pressures and agendas.

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The world’s biggest killer: chronic lifestyle disease*

Lifestyle-related chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes and lung cancer are already killing twice as many people as malnutrition and every single infectious disease combined.* Four out of five chronic disease deaths occur in disadvantaged communities*.

Solving this issue requires more than just better access to health services. Research has shown that whilst healthcare itself is an important part of creating healthy communities, healthy lifestyle choices and socio-economic factors like employment, housing and social inclusion make up 70% of health outcomes*.

References

[1] D. R. Williams, M. V. Costa, A. O. Odunlami & S. A. Mohammed., ‘Moving Upstream: How Interventions That Address the Social Determinants of Health Can Improve Health and Reduce Disparities’, Journal of Public Health Management Practice, 14/6 (2008), 8.

[1] M. Rosato et al., ‘Community participation: lessons for maternal, newborn, and child health’, The Lancet, 372 (2008), 969

[1] The Royal Children’s Hospital, Place-based Initatives Transforming Communities (2012) https://www.rch.org.au/uploadedFiles/Main/Content/ccch/CCCH_Place-based_initiatives_report.pdf>, 4, accessed 3 Feb. 2018.

Global Causes of Death

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Our work was to transform the approach to solving chronic disease:

Deep Collaboration

We built coordinated movements around specific local problems, with deep collaboration, community co-design and systems-thinking.

Changing the Conversation

We changed the conversation around chronic disease and community wellbeing through advocacy and partnership.

Mentoring and Consultancy

We mentored and capacity-built dozens of existing community health organisations through free training, consultancy, conferences and years of mentor partnerships.

We started off working with vulnerable people 14 years ago. Seven years later, we started working with change-makers and community projects. For the last 3 years, we worked in deep collaboration with whole communities on a systems level.

Our Core Team

Jimi Wollumbin

Founder

Unique Genius:
Health Philosopher, Inspiring Presenter, Skilled builder of relationships. Big-picture focused.

Major Work in OHO:
Founding the organisation, developing the principles of change, building strong social enterprise foundations, leadership and inspiration.

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Stephanie Clerc

Partner (Operations & Project Mentoring)

Unique Genius:
Implementation Strategy, Facilitating Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Operations Systems. People & systems focused.

Major Work in OHO:
Mentoring and training community health partners, Operations Management, Project strategy, Collaborative team leadership.

[email protected]

Benjamin Haynes

Partner (Business Partnerships & Social Enterprise)

Unique Genius:
Brand Strategy & Identity, Business Strategy, Facilitation and Planning, Results focused.

Major Work in OHO:
Strategy development, building corporate partner relationships, communications, training and development for community health partners.
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Each of the One Health Partners are available for independent consultancy or public speaking work.

Partners

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