Our board
Nick joined the Health Foundation as Chief Operating Officer in 2022.
Nick leads the Foundation’s corporate functions and oversee, in collaboration with the wider Directors’ Team, the design and implementation of the organisation’s strategy, business plan and associated governance.
Before joining the Health Foundation, Nick was Chief Financial Officer and Director of Finance, Planning and Performance at the Office for National Statistics. Before that, Nick had a wide-ranging career at the National Audit Office working across the breadth of government’s functions.
Nick is a Chartered Accountant and holds and Executive MBA from Imperial Business School. He has recently graduated from London Business School’s Senior Executive Programme.
Mary Dixon-Woods is Director of THIS Institute and The Health Foundation Professor of Healthcare Improvement Studies at the University of Cambridge.
A Professorial Fellow at Homerton College, she is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of Medical Sciences, and an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of General Practitioners, and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Mary was an NIHR Senior Investigator (2017-2022) and served on the National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England, contributing to the 2013 Berwick report. Mary was also a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator (2012-2019) and the 2018 Harveian Orator for the Royal College of Physicians. She is a member of the BMJ’s international advisory board.
Dr Emma Salgård Cunha is Associate Director in the Technology Development and Licensing team at Cambridge Enterprise, the innovation arm of the University of Cambridge. Emma leads Cambridge’s support for innovation and enterprise projects emerging from research in social science disciplines.
With special interests in software commercialisation and social enterprise, Emma has supported dozens of university enterprises developing evidence-based approaches in a broad range of sectors: from creative industries to public health to global development to financial services.
A literary historian by training, Emma holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
