Will Higham is a values-driven leader with 20 years’ experience delivering strategy, campaigns and public impact across mental health, child poverty, civic engagement and education. He works across sectors to influence national policy, lead coalitions, and navigate complex systems - whether helping transform community mental health models, leading public campaigns, or building partnerships that stick. He has worked at charities like Rethink Mental Illness, Save the Children and the Prison Reform Trust
Will started his career in policy, working for an MP and a think tank before being taken up by the need to turn policy into a difference on the ground. He has an MBA from Hult Ashridge.
Will has written for a huge range of national publications and often broadcast. He is about to launch a podcast with another of our Centre for Population Health Associates Dr Kaneez Shaid called: How Do You Solve a Problem like everything. It looks a how to make systems change in the left behind areas that now rightfully dominate our politics.