Our team

Senior Management Team

Adele Paterson

Chief Executive Officer

Following a successful career as a political researcher, Adele worked for an east London charity, creating partnerships with corporate sector organisaions to encourage regeneration. She returned to the economic policy arena as head of policy for a financial trade association and in 2008 joined International Health Partners to support (and then lead) our corporate partnerships. Adele was appointed CEO in October 2017.

Tina Grear

Chief Operating Officer

After many years as an international human rights lobbyist, Tina’s passion for strategic planning and best practice led her into charity management. Over 20 years she has held senior roles in the voluntary sector including at CSW, VSO and the Tutu Foundation. She joined International Health Partners in 2015 and has oversight of finance, governance, business planning, HR and fundraising.

Louise Hart

Director of Programmes

Louise has a wealth of experience in the aid sector and has held roles in international charities including Christian Aid, Plan International UK and WaterAid. Louise joined us in September 2016 to lead and develop our healthcare and humanitarian programmes across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Colleen Harrisson-Dodds

Director of Logistics and Systems

Colleen joined International Health Partners in September 2015 after a career in publishing, where she managed international trade sales for a travel guide and language books publisher.

Her role involves ensuring that we deliver product donations efficiently and effectively to our NGO partners around the world. As our resident technical guru, Colleen also maintains the Donations Platform website.

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IHP has been an instrumental partner across the years in meeting specific requests from our beneficiaries.
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Latest

Newborn inspires staff as Ebola struggle continues

This week, we celebrate the much-awaited arrival of 24 Essential Health Packs in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – along with news of a baby’s survival against the odds.
Donations arrive to help Liberia’s Covid-19 response

A donation of essential medicines worth around £75,000 has arrived with our in-country partner Life for African Mothers (LFAM) in Liberia, to provide treatments to patients in 15 counties across the country.
Product Giving Alliance launched as charities urge businesses to donate goods and services to help people in need during the coronavirus crisis

We are proud to partner with three other charities – Charity Digital, FareShare and In Kind Direct – to launch the Product Giving Alliance to call on British businesses to make donating goods and services a key part of their response to those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Product Giving Alliance

We are proud to partner with three other charities – Charity Digital, FareShare and In Kind Direct – to launch the Product Giving Alliance to call on British businesses to make donating goods and services a key part of their response to those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

What we do

IHP leads the field in delivering donated medicines to aid agencies
Our team

Adele Paterson, Tina Grear, Colleen Harrisson Dodds, Louise Hart, CEO, COO, Programmes, Logistics
Frontline UK health workers get protective equipment from IHP

At IHP, our mission is to source donated healthcare products to those in need. And for us this week, that meant delivering a donation of essential PPE to hospital workers in UK.
Our story

The charity International Health Partners was launched in 2004 to act as a bridge between healthcare companies and international aid agencies
Product Giving Alliance launched as charities urge businesses to donate goods and services to help people in need during the coronavirus crisis

We are proud to partner with three other charities – Charity Digital, FareShare and In Kind Direct – to launch the Product Giving Alliance to call on British businesses to make donating goods and services a key part of their response to those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Working together works

Partnerships with healthcare companies are at the heart of everything that International Health Partners does
Responding to disasters

Leading healthcare charity IHP co-ordinates the response of the European healthcare industry to major disasters
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