Christiana Melam
CEO
Christiana is a social prescribing enthusiast. She has been ‘linking’ or ‘connecting’ in her community all her life, whether; in a paid capacity with a previous career in public health and health promotion or volunteer capacity as a patient and public voice representative or health champion.
It is her knowledge and experience of inequalities, that highlighted for her just how important the role of a link worker is but also that it needed help to maintain its professional integrity, in order to help reduce inequalities.
She is an advocate for social change, social justice, inclusion, coproduction, grassroots approaches, empowering people and reducing inequality. She has achieved particular success in community engagement, implementing targeted interventions for “hard to reach” and “at risk groups” to reduce health inequalities, and developing the often overlooked paid and volunteer workforce in health and social care.
This success is the result of her approachable, inspiring and enthusiastic nature, ability to bridge points of view and varied subject matter expertise – all of which boosts engagement and morale.
She was recognised by the mayor of London as one of the women that make London great in 2019 and is a finalist in the upcoming Social Enterprise UK awards for the ‘Women in Social Enterprise' category.
Christiana holds masters in Public Health & Health Promotion.

