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We are so excited to welcome Brandy Coote as our new Co-Director. Brandy isn't new to OHT. She's been part of our community as a Fellow, helping build connections, champion inclusive innovation and co-found OHT Oxford. Now she'll be helping lead the next chapter of our global, volunteer-powered community of communities. Brandy has spent over two decades working across health research, innovation, data, governance and delivery. Her career has taken her through the NHS, academia, national...

At a recent One Health Tech event, Laura Smith, Service designer, and Saskia Wrigley, designer and researcher from Unboxed joined Dr William Bradlow, Consultant Cardiologist at University Hospitals Birmingham, to explore what happens when clinicians and service designers work together to tackle some of healthcare's most complex challenges. Hit play below to watch. 👇 Please note this recording has been edited to remove audience discussion. The session highlighted a simple but important...

by Charly Massey, Kate Prescott & Mary Yip | 5mins Often, when we talk about One HealthTech, people cannot quite believe a community like this exists. Then the 💡 lightbulb moment lands. They feel the pull to commit, but they are not sure they have the 🕒 capacity to run hubs and networks. In early 2025, three long-standing community members found ourselves in exactly that spot. Our energy for OHT was still there. We wanted to nurture and celebrate the community, while growing our own...

The digital therapeutics attrition problem isn’t a motivation problem. It’s a design, measurement, and system problem. By Mat Rawsthorne I recently hosted a coffee chat for the One HealthTech Mental Health Network on what I’ve started calling the “ghosting problem” in digital therapeutics. The room included founders, NHS consultants, user researchers, a health psychologist, and people building everything from VR mental health tools to ADHD screening platforms. A common theme quickly emerged –...

One HealthTech One HealthTech is a global, volunteer-led community-of-communities working to make health innovation more inclusive, more grounded, and more human. We back voices too often unheard, push for tools that work fairly for everyone, and champion better ways of working through ethics, co-design and collaboration. We’re looking for a new Community Co-Director to join Angela Maragna and help shape OHT’s next chapter. This is a shared leadership role with a particular focus on funding,...

Gosh, we really can’t believe it’s been this long, but OHT has turned ten and it’s been causing a lot of reflection. This wee blog is a chance to share a little of where we’ve come from, what we’ve built, where we want to get to next, and a couple of exciting new roles in the team that we think will help get us there. But first: back to basics. Whilst lots within the OHT community has changed and evolved over the last decade, our core raison d’être has stayed consistent. We have always...

JOB POST IS NOW CLOSED About One HealthTech One HealthTech is a global, volunteer-led community that champions diversity, inclusivity, and innovation in healthtech. We support curious minds and future leaders, helping people from all backgrounds to build confidence, share knowledge, and connect across health, tech, and everything in between. A Day in the Life at One HealthTech No two days are ever quite the same at One HealthTech, and we love it that way! You might kick things off with a bit...

By Maxine Mackintosh and Jemima Kola-Abodunde OHT London marked International Women’s Day 2026 a little early this year at Hale House with a conversation on what leadership actually looks like when you are trying to make innovation and change happen in practice in the complex, messy world of health! Before the event began, members of the OHT community were already fizzing and reflecting on that question with a smattering of whiteboards around the room, which invited people to share thoughts...

Making Your FemTech Work for All Women: Guide Design & Production Project overview We are producing a publicly available practical guide for FemTech founders, product teams, and investors. The guide will help people embed inclusive design into women’s health technology from the ground up. This is the flagship output of a collaboration between UCL Innovation & Enterprise and One HealthTech. Background materials To support the creative approach, please review the background materials below: 🚀...

by Zoya Yasmine The Unprescribed Stories Club is our new space for people to reflect on healthtech using ‘unprescribed stories’ like fiction books, films, music, TV shows, and art. Whilst these materials are not strictly ‘about’ healthtech, the Unprescribed Stories Club prompts us to think more deeply about the world in which we’re building healthtech in through having honest, speculative conversations about what equity means in this space. The Unprescribed Stories Club meets bi-monthly to...

By Sharif Mussa, With-you Associate, Mental health lived experience professional This blog was originally posted via with-you, you can see the original post here. I trained early this morning, as I do every day, with my Bushman Challenge community – a wellness initiative I established in the pursuit of mental wellbeing and community connection. But I was mentally prepping at the same time for the day ahead. Not sat at a desk. Not even calm. Sweat on. Hunt for Wellness energy, but with a...

Written by Kevin Flanagan At a recent virtual coffee morning we discussed how as artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into healthcare systems, there’s a tendency to view its deployment as a technical challenge. However, deploying algorithms into mental healthcare is not a neutral technological upgrade. It is the active encoding of a very specific worldview. My hypothesis is we may be facing a Black Swan type event in mental health AI, driven by deeply flawed baseline data,...

Recently, we were invited to the HETT Leaders Summit in Leeds to lead a roundtable we called “Digital first: inclusion by design or exclusion by default?”. Hosted by Fiona Maher and Angela Maragna . These are the sessions we love, not because anyone’s trying to catch anyone out, but because people show up with real stories, real constraints, and a genuine desire to do better. What made this conversation feel different was how honest it was. There was a shared acknowledgement that digital...

Many of us know that ADHD is often misunderstood, with people hearing statements such as “just use a planner” or “why can you not apply yourself?”. Stereotypes about people with ADHD being lazy, careless, or easily distracted often overshadow the complex reality of living with ADHD. Attention is not simply absent, it can be dysregulated, and initiating tasks is not a sign of laziness but often a struggle with executive function. Many live with constant internal noise and juggling of thoughts,...

The Unprescribed Stories Club is our new space for people to reflect on healthtech using ‘unprescribed stories’ like fiction books, films, music, TV shows, and art. Whilst these materials are not strictly ‘about’ healthtech, the Unprescribed Stories Club prompts us to think about the world in which we’re building healthtech and lowers the barriers to having honest, speculative conversations about what equity means in this space. The Unprescribed Stories Club meets bi-monthly to discuss...

TAKE THE SURVEY Background Innovation in FemTech only matters if it works for the people it’s meant to serve. Too often, products overlook disabled women, migrant communities, women of colour, trans and non‑binary people, and those in rural or underserved areas. Some teams have found ways to design more equitably, others have hit barriers. This survey is about learning from both. Who is the survey for? Anyone working on, using, or shaping FemTech products,whether you’re building an MVP,...

by Saira Arif Earlier this month in London, One HealthTech brought together a room full of curious, passionate people at Hale House in the heart of the Harley Street Health District, ready to question some of healthcare’s biggest assumptions which all centred around one deceptively simple question: “Where does health start… and where does it stop?” What followed was a rich, layered discussion that challenged traditional models of healthcare, questioned the very foundations of trust in the...

A summary of our recent OHT Mental Health Network coffee discussion held on Thursday 27 th November. What if the traits we label as "attention deficit" were once essential for human survival? And what if our modern environments, not our brains, are the real mismatch? These were the questions that sparked a lively and deeply personal conversation during our recent coffee hour, hosted by Klaudia and Kevin. With nearly 20 participants sharing their experiences, insights, and challenges, the...

We’ve got exciting news. The One HealthTech Leeds Hub has been awarded funding from the Inclusive Growth Development Fund , so we're cooking up a bold, joyful, and unapologetically inclusive health innovation programme for West Yorkshire. Read all the way to the bottom for how to get involved! The OHT Leeds Hub’s grant, Inclusive Innovation for Better Health , is all about centering women, disabled innovators, and people from ethnically minoritised backgrounds in health innovation. We're...

Insights from OHT Brighton’s October meetup by Rose Bundock and Kate Prescott The OHT Brighton meetup on 13 October brought together health innovators at The Walrus to tackle a question that should concern anyone building healthcare technology: are we actually solving the right problems? Guest speaker Katherine Church, a Digital Health Strategist and former Chief Digital Officer for Surrey Heartlands ICS, came with an uncomfortable statistic: 80% of health innovation initiatives fail. Not...

by Kevin Flanagan, OHT Fellow At a recent One Health Tech panel discussion titled " Are We Playing Whack-a-Mole with Mental Health ?", panellists Meera Moore Danowski , Chris Hazen , and Breda Spillane came together to tackle a pressing question: why does our approach to mental health keep producing the same stubbornly limited results despite a century of innovation? The conversation revealed an uncomfortable truth: we're treating mental health like it's a broken bone, when in fact it's more...

Maxine Mackintosh I spend a fair bit of time around data and data-y people - helping build datasets, testing architectures, and working with others on how to design algorithms. I’ve had the chance to work across lots of different areas - from dementia and human genomics to infectious diseases and NHS records - and if something has columns and contradictions and touches health, I’ve probably tinkered with it at some point. Through those conversations, I keep coming back to a simple question:...

In this OHT AI Clinic session, the co-founders of the AI Compassion Coach, Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos and Gabriele Maddaloni, share their...

📍 Role: London Hub Lead (Volunteer) ⏰ Time commitment: A few hours a week 🌐 Location: London 💜 Volunteer position About One HealthTech One HealthTech (OHT) is a global, volunteer-led community that exists to make health, care, and life sciences more equitable, inclusive, and accessible for everyone. We create welcoming spaces for people from all backgrounds, especially those historically excluded, to connect, collaborate, and shape the future of health and tech. The OHT London gang has...

Let’s be real: a lot of women’s health technologies are still built with just one type of user in mind. Think cisgender, English speaking, digitally savvy, living in a high income country. That might work for some, but it leaves far too many people out. Older women. Disabled people. LGBTQ+ communities. Migrants. People of colour. Anyone facing barriers around language, literacy, or connectivity. Health tech should work for all of us, not just the easiest box to tick. So we’re asking a big...

by Erin Okhrymenko, OHT Fellow Where it all started Picture this: me, a decade ago, teaching Business English to humanitarian workers in...

By Mary Yip Welcome to The Recharge List - a summer selection of reads, listens, and light-touch inspirations curated by the One Healthtech community. It’s part brain food, part hammock companion: a way to stay connected, thoughtful, and a little bit curious while we collectively exhale. From gripping fiction to smart takes on testing ideas and navigating health systems, this list is here to recharge minds and spark conversations. Take what you need, share what you love, and keep an eye out -...

by Charly Massey In collaboration with two other OHT fellows, I've formed the OHT Fellow Advocate Group. Following the principle of "see one, do one, teach one," we'll share our expertise in professional profile building over 18 months to help others navigate this journey. This is our first field report and includes questions asked by the other Advocates. If you have any questions please get in touch. A practical guide to enhancing your professional profile through conference speaking What we...

Reimagining healthcare isn’t easy, but reading Divided is a good place to start by Zoya Yasmine Divided by Dr Annabel Sowemimo is a...

About One HealthTech One HealthTech is a global, volunteer-led community that champions diversity, inclusivity, and innovation in healthtech. We support curious minds and future leaders, helping people from all backgrounds to build confidence, share knowledge, and connect across health, tech, and everything in between. A Day in the Life at One HealthTech No two days are ever quite the same at One HealthTech, and we love it that way! You might kick things off with a bit of (let’s be honest)...

By Kate Prescott Earlier this week, I was invited by Ella Moonan-Howard to attend an inspiring showcase hosted by the Alzheimer’s...

This year’s Rewired 2025 conference was nothing short of inspiring, bringing together key players from healthcare and technology. Our...

By Kate Prescott The recent One Health Tech Brighton event showcased the power of patient-centred innovation in healthcare, with a...

A recap on our campaign to support Digital Health Leadership and a continued plea to rethinking decision-making for a more inclusive...

by Kate Prescott The OHT Brighton event, COVID's Impact on Health Innovation , brought together leading figures from the healthcare and...

by Kate Prescott Last week, I had the privilege of attending the Genomics & Biodata Festival , a gathering of leading researchers,...

The OHT annual themes are chosen by the current cohort of Fellows. These themes themes are suggestions for shaping our activities,...

by Himmi Kari I’ve been to a fair few healthtech events this year. From the multi-day conferences at the Excel, to meetings at the Crick,...

by Alexandra Crew Introduction Maya sits at a small white table in her kitchen sipping her coffee before she logs on for the day....

DEADLINE: 16th December 2024 Want to know more about the Fellowship? Email info@onehealthtech.com or read on.... OHT Fellowship We are...

By Mary Yip In the last blog, I explored user-centred design for a product where the solution had been defined but the user's problems...

It was a sunny autumn day as 18 professionals from diverse backgrounds, including commercial sectors, business development, product...

What it means for diversity, innovation and the future. We read it so you don’t have to ;-)

We are excited to share some impactful moments from our latest gathering with the One HealthTech Bristol community. Held at Mace & Menter...

By Mary Yip In the last blog , I touched on the role of the Product Manager in bringing stakeholders together to understand the process...

By Mary Yip In the last blog , I talked about the challenges in building AI products as a product manager. This blog will highlight how...

You asked – we listened! We did it! Last month OHT-LDN held a hug-in-a-pub 🫂 A fantastically friendly and enthusiastic group came to one of the busiest pubs in Soho on the busiest Thursday of the year for this popular meet-up! Never say we make it easy and we hope all ears and voices remained intact. We CAN report that there were some actual hugs and some virtual ones. The conversations continue in our OHT-LDN LinkedIn Group. Kicking off at 6 pm, the marathon really got going at 8 pm....

By Mary Yip I am one of those product managers who didn’t fall into the profession; more that I gravitated to it. My background is in...

by Steph Jones Steph recently went to the Decoding the Future of Women Conference...read on for her thoughts! Wow! Where to even start...

by Tahmida, Swamy, Mary and Catherine The Idea As a newly-formed “specialist network” for Product Management folks in healthtech, we...

The OHT Fellowship cultivates impactful initiatives within our community, led by dedicated individuals. This year's Fellows invested...

by Maxine Mackintosh From June 17-20th, Amsterdam was abuzz with energy and innovation as HLTH Europe took centre stage, gathering...

by Bernadette Clarke Is System working, working? This was the title of this years North West Skills Development Network conference known...

by Nosheen Hussain, OHT Fellow “But what can I do? I am just one person.” said 7 billion people. That quote summarises my main takeaway...

Daniel Eyre, Vice President of Business Development, CereCore by Bernie Clarke Daniel Eyre’s career has been a winding path, taking him...

Director of Digital Services, Welsh Ambulance Service NHS trust by Bernie Clarke Jonny Sammut is the Director of Digital Services for the...

James Hawkins, Chief Digital and Information Officer, York and Scarborough NHS Trust by Bernie Clarke Early Career and Interest in...

Dylan Roberts, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board by Bernie Clarke From Humble Beginnings to...

James Freed, Deputy Director, NHS Digital Academy, NHS England by Bernie Clarke James Freed’s career has been a “meandering through...

One HealthTech Manchester are on a mission to change leadership diversity in digital, data and technology in the NHS. The aim of the...

Ian Hogan, Chief Information Officer, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust by Bernie Clarke Ian Hogan first embarked on his...

James Rawlinson, Director of Health Informatics, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust by Bernie Clarke James Rawlinson, Director of Health...

Event wrap-up by OHT Fellow, Bernie Clarke It was so lovely this week to be at HETT North following the success of last year. This year...

Ben Jeeves, Associate CCIO, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust by Bernie Clarke Ben Jeeves has an impressive dual role within the...

In Conversation With Simon Marsh, Chief Information Officer, Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust by Bernie Clarke With over 50 years of...

In Conversation With Peter White, CNIO At Alder Hey by Bernie Clarke Peter White has taken an unconventional path to his role as Chief...

Paul Rice, Chief Digital Innovation Officer, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Airedale NHS Foundation trust by Bernie...

Martin Carpenter, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, NHS Kent & Medway by Bernie Clarke A Meandering Career Journey Martin Carpenter...

Shaping the future of healthtech with equity at its heart: event wrap-up by OHT Fellow, Charly Massey “Equity: the practice of giving to...

by Maura Bellio PhD., OHT Fellow Are you familiar with the Product Design Week? If not, and if you work in the product design and UX...

DEADLINE NOW PASSED!! Want to know more about the Fellowship? Email info@onehealthtech.com or read on.... OHT Fellowship We are thrilled...

At One HealthTech, we are thrilled to announce an exciting addition to our community-driven approach – the introduction of annual themes....

We've been working hard on the strategy behind the scenes for the last few months. And we want to share where we are!! We've lovingly put...

Steph Jones, on behalf of One Health Tech, attended the 'Decoding the Future of Women' event hosted by Fem TechLab at the Wellcome Trust....

Guess what? We've got some exciting news to share with you! One HealthTech is back - and we’re refreshing the community and want to hear...

By Rachael Lyon Do you ever have those moments where you‘re suddenly reminded that ‘Wow there are some really clever young people out in...

I think I have some big shoes to fill, but I am ready for the challenge! What do I do? Well truthfully, I’d love to hear from you about...

One HealthTech Aberdeen’s first event of 2023 was a Burns Night Mixer! For those who may be unfamiliar with Scottish culture, Burns Night...

Alex Hernandez, Charlotte Lewis and I (Bernadette Clarke) make up the Manchester Hub for One HealthTech. We're all mums and all have...

So, the weather did not play ball, nor did COVID, and so only a select few made it along to One HealthTech Aberdeen's 2nd event at One...

Is there anything more awkward than trying to write a blog about yourself? What do I do? As Community Manager, I’ll be your first point...

by Kathryn Denyer on behalf of UKRI As it swept across the globe, COVID-19 dramatically altered the mental health landscape, creating...

I have been a fellow since June 2021 Within the Manchester Hub, myself and our co-curator Alex Hernandez are working on a campaign around...

As more health service providers embrace technological tools in delivering service, there is a growing need for factoring in...

Director of PeopleDotCom and author of Towards a Digital Ecology: NHS Digital Adoption through the COVID-19 Looking Glass Victoria has...

Rachael Ainsworth is the Research Software Community Manager at the Software Sustainability Institute based at the University of...

Image credit:ELEKTRA LABS/CREATIVE COMMONS BY LICENSE Between 2009 and 2017 alone, there were over 176 million data breaches relating to...

Since inception, my Startup - Babymigo has registered over 250,000 users and reached over one million parents across multiple locations...

Interview by Bernadette Clarke with support from Harriet Young and Alejandra Hernandez It was great to speak with Daniel Hallen (he/him),...

Leadership is a critical topic in our campaign on recruitment and career progression. We had a great discussion with Beverley Bryant...

“Free Code First Girls coding course worth £10k+ for women and non-binary individuals leading to a certified Nanodegree and tech job...

These were some of the mind boggling, philosophical and sometimes down-right impossible questions I was not expecting to be asked when I...

Since 2020 I have done almost 70 interviews with women in a digital leadership capacity in the NHS. The Female Leadership in Tech in the...

Hello OHT reader :) in this blog post I am going to go over common skills used in the health informatics field to help guide you on what...

OHT London Reading Room Event on the 30th November, the Reading Room series was launched with its first online event. The aim of the...

WOW WOW WOW………THAT REALLY WAS WILD! What better way to wake up on a Saturday morning than to jump into 13 degree water and splash about...

We know it’s easy for the uninitiated (newbies) to start to feel overwhelmed by the buzz around HealthTech. OHT Ibadan, a mixed community...

by Charly Massey Today is the 13th World Menopause Day. In the last 12 months the media's interest, particularly from where I write in...

On Wednesday, 29th of September, we launched the OHT Amsterdam Hub with an online event titled ‘’Finding your feet and voice in the...

Earlier this year we launched the new OHT Strategy for 2021-2022 and as we started to implement all the whizzy and exciting new ideas and...