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Jermaine Allison-McCracken |
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Jermaine Allison has been involved in health promotion for the last
25 years working to build partnerships within local authorities, the
NHS and through her own business. Her work has been varied and apart
from generic health promotion Jermaine has worked with disadvantaged
urban communities in the early 1980’s in North Yorkshire, older people
and black and minority ethnic communities in the 1990’s in Berkshire
and South Buckinghamshire and now remote and rural settings since 1995
in the Highlands. Jermaine has spent the last 12 years in the Highlands for the NHS both in rural Caithness and Sutherland, as the person with a generic health promotion remit, to the present day where she has a strategic responsibility for mental health promotion. Her recent work has included building partnerships for health related physical activity, advising two Healthy Living Centres and working with the voluntary sector provider ‘Partnerships for Wellbeing’. Jermaine currently sits on two national health promotion groups. She gained Scottish Executive funds in 2004 for a Men’s’ Health project targeted at ‘hard to reach men’ with health promotion information and advice. This work led to the development of the ‘5 minute MOT’ now widely used across the NHS Highland area. Her work was always focussed around health related physical activity and exercise referral schemes and she exemplifies this in her own life running aerobics and salsa dance classes across Inverness and Ross-shire. More recently Jermaine has taken a year to develop the ‘Human MOT’. This work has led to the establishment of ‘SaluVida’, an organisation set up to take the knowledge of human behaviour, physical, social, emotional and spiritual, into creating healthier workplaces and communities. Educated at Ilkley College for two years on a non teaching ‘Human Movement Studies’ degree, Jermaine has gained further qualifications in youth work from YMCA National College London, aerobics through the RSA, a post graduate qualification in health promotion from Robert Gordon University. Married with three children her interests include swimming, cycling, netball, walking and salsa dancing. jermaine@saluvida.com |
