Dr Rosie Rowe is Oxfordshire County Council’s Head of Healthy Place Shaping. With a background in health services research, development of primary care and community health services, and public health she became the Director of Bicester’s Healthy New Town Programme in 2016. Following the success of this pilot programme which aimed to bring together health, planning and community development, Rosie is now responsible for embedding healthy place shaping across Oxfordshire, addressing the wider determinants of health and creating healthy communities.
In 2022, worked on the Healthy Groups Programme which won the Self Care Forum’s Self Care Innovation Award. More details here.