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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Read Lukusa's story

IHP is continuing to ship essential medicines and health supplies to ensure patients across the world are able to access life-saving treatments, as health systems continue to struggle in the fight against Covid-19.
Emergency medicines and health supplies arrive in Lebanon to support Beirut explosion response

International Health Partners has received multiple requests for support from in-country partners and has responded with two initial emergency shipments.
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Partnering to bring healthcare closer to home

Since 2016, we’ve been working with the NGO Health & Hope, the only one of our partners with a primary focus in South East Asia. It works in Chin State, Myanmar to train and equip community health workers to provide healthcare across a largely rural area, minimising the need for people to travel long distances to access help.

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
Emergency medicines and health supplies arrive in Lebanon to support Beirut explosion response

International Health Partners has received multiple requests for support from in-country partners and has responded with two initial emergency shipments.
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 shows the impact of working together

Launched in May 2020, the Product Giving Alliance unites four charities, to make supporting communities the easy option for companies, manufacturers and retailers. As COVID-19 took hold across the world, the Alliance has provided digital support and training, food, essential consumer goods and medical supplies worth almost £60m to charities in the UK and overseas already this year.
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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