Yvonne Roberts
Senior Associate, Health Launchpad
Yvonne is a Senior Associate in Health Launchpad and joined the Young Foundation in March 2008.
Yvonne's role in the Health Launchpad team is to seek out projects, social entrepreneurs and embryonic ideas to tackle chronic long term illness outside the mould of the NHS; to link the results of those investigations to Launchpad's support and expertise and to disseminate the outcomes as widely as possible.
Yvonne is an award winning journalist and broadcaster. She originally specialised in the Middle East and foreign news reporting, later moving to investigative work on Thames TV's This Week and working on documentaries for the BBC. She has written for every broadsheet including The Observer and The Sunday Times, covering social policy, politics, investigations and comment. She has been a columnist on the New Statesman and is now a regular contributor to the Guardian's blog, Comment is Free. She has written four novels and three non-fiction books on men, relationships and gender politics and contributed to other works including The Rise and Rise of the Meritocracy, marking the half centenary of the Institute of Community Studies. Additionally, she has written around parenting social policy and family issues for over 30 years
She is a trustee of FPWP Hibiscus, a charity working to discourage female drug "mules" and offer support to families once a woman is convicted.
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