Cathryn Wood is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at PLH. For the past 15 years, Cathryn’s focus has been on scaling evidence-based initiatives that improve maternal and child health and early childhood development. At Development Media International, Cathryn worked with funding partners to develop cost-effective behaviour change interventions that could be delivered at scale, leveraging the power of media and story telling.

Cathryn started her career as a BBC Radio Producer before moving to a strategic grant-giving role at the Wellcome Trust. Cathryn spent time working with radio stations in Malawi as a Winston Churchill Research Fellow and has a degree in Medical Sciences from the University of Cambridge.