ABOUT
Values, Methods & People
Our Values
Make Things Better
We aim to make the world a better place.
We want to leave more than we take.
Improvement, Always
We believe in a constant pursuit of efficiency, efficacy and effectiveness.
Everything can be improved. Everything.
It Has to Work
We believe it is imperative to be curious, brave and honest about the work we do.
If it doesn’t work, remove it.
Our Methods
All of our consultants have worked in clinical health settings, where behaviour change is a daily expectation. We have decades of experience getting results in changing heath behaviour and we developed the What Works Method to help solve the health behaviour problems in your workplace.
The What Works Method
01 Identify
What’s Not Working
With our clinical interviewing skills we efficiently analyse current practice and identify points of intervention
02 Research
What Has Worked
Our extensive experience in research, literature reviews and ability to think laterally when looking for solutions, ensures that any intervention will be based on the strongest empirical foundations
03 Design
What Will Work
We use our experience as health clinicians who have a deep understanding of behaviour change to combine evidence-based strategies with a behavioural formulation that will work in real-world settings
04 Implement
Do What Works
Our experience successfully implementing behaviour change programs across all levels of health, allows us to help you seamlessly integrate what works into your workplace
05 Evaluate
What Worked
Having run trials, nationally and internationally, we can efficiently evaluate what worked and ensure the sustainability of your program
Our People
Dr Ben Britton
PhD, D.Psych (Clin & Hlth), P.G.Dip.Psych, B.Econ & Soc Sci
Ben is the founding director of What Works in Health and is Australia’s first Senior Clinical & Health Psychologist. He specialises in the practical implementation of evidence-based behaviour change in clinical health settings. For more than 15 years he has lead clinical innovations in health behaviour change and award winning research to evaluate it. His intervention to prevent malnutrition in head and neck cancer patients was evaluated by a NHMRC funded trial and remains the most successful behaviour change intervention ever conducted in the area.
His intervention design, training and behavioural insights are sought-after nationally and internationally.
Prof Amanda Baker
PhD, M.Psych, BA
Amanda is a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellow. An award-winning innovator, she specialises in health psychology, and is passionate about improving the treatment of people with co-existing mental health and substance use problems. A Senior Clinical Psychologist, she has worked in mental health, forensics, alcohol and other drug settings in the UK and Australia. Amanda has led many intervention trials that have been widely adopted in mental health and substance use treatment in Australia and internationally.
She enjoys working with health care teams and finding out how best to fit evidence with practice to improve outcomes for consumers.
A/Prof Katie Wynne
PhD, MBBS, MA, BA, RACP
Katie is a Senior Staff Specialist in Endocrinology and an Associate Professor. She has many years’ experience in developing and testing solutions to problems within health and clinical settings around the world, with a particular focus on endocrinology, obesity, and appetite control as well as transgender health and antenatal medicine. Her interventions have been tested through rigorous randomised controlled trials and are now adopted in clinical and health settings in Australia and the United Kingdom.
She is driven by a passion to make things better for people and patients that interact with the health setting.
Dr Rebecca Wyse
PhD, GC.Public Health, B.Commerce, BA
Dr Rebecca Wyse is a Heart Foundation Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle. She has worked for over 15 years in the health system, to design, implement and evaluate behaviour change programs to address population level preventive health risks. The behavioural interventions that she has designed have been adopted by the NSW Government, adapted for other patient groups and have changed the practices of hospitals, childcare, school canteens and private companies across NSW and Australia. She is also an expert in evaluation of health programs and has won multiple awards for the quality of her research, which she has published in the leading journals in the field.
Rebecca is passionate about introducing effective and sustainable changes to people’s lives that can improve the quality of their life.
John Hambridge
M.Psych. B.Psych
John is a clinical psychologist with over 30 years experience in both the UK and Australia. His work experience includes forensic psychology, developmental disability, community outreach and over 20 years as a senior clinical psychologist at the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle.
John led an award winning innovative outreach service for people with a serious mental illness in Sydney. He obtained grants to develop, implement and evaluate a supervision/mentoring scheme for rural and remote psychologists in NSW. He has pioneered novel group depression interventions for cardiac and stroke patients. A clinician researcher, he is passionate about optimising outcomes for staff and clients and appreciates the challenges of working in complex systems.