Ian Macdonald

Ian Macdonald
Schools & Families
Trainer

Ian has been a trainer with Charlie Waller since 2016, working on a range of projects and initiatives across children's mental health.
Ian's background was initially in the field of sport sciences, and subsequently navigated to postgraduate study and roles in the field of public health. He has a particular interest in the social determinants of health.
Ian has worked in a variety of roles including young person's substance use services, local public health, Healthy Schools and Headstart programmes, and writing national guidance documents and resources around alcohol and drug education for Mentor-ADEPIS. He also works for the Open University in the school of Education, Childhood, Youth & Sport, teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in sport and fitness, and mental health in the curriculum. He has a particular interest in how best practice and research is made accessible to practitioners within universal services who work with children, young people and families.
In addition to delivering training to schools and other professionals, Ian also sits on a number of research programmes and networks for both CWT and the Open University.

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