Joanna is Director of Partnership and Development for Warm Wales, and is a Registered Public Health Practitioner and Environmental Health Practitioner (MSc Environmental Health). She has 20 years of experience working in Local Authority and third sector in the field of housing and public health. Jonna is passionate about exploring the links between housing and health and the impact that it has and what we can do to reduce the impact. Joanna’s current role at Warm Wales combines engagement, development and implementation, looking at identifying and cultivating new partnerships along with maintaining relationships with existing partners and services in the community, leading on the development of new project opportunities and following them through to implementation. She joined Warm Wales back in 2017 and has led many projects such as the Welsh Government Energy Advice pilot and Healthy Homes People Lives and Communities. Joanna was also responsible for setting up the model of delivery, Healthy Homes Healthy People (HHHP) which looks at tackling fuel poverty, reducing avoidable health inequality and improving health and wellbeing by linking the provision of energy advice, fuel debt, case worker support, income maximisation, awareness raising and behaviour change and wider wellbeing via social prescribing.

Joanna recently won an award at the UKPHR (UK Public Health Register) Awards 2024, innovation in Public Health for best Digital Initiative  for the work that Warm Wales have been leading on, digitally integrating Health and Housing Support.

Joanna is a touch rugby player and has represented Wales Women’s 35 at the Euros in 2022 where she won silver and at the World Cup in 2024 where they came 4^th.

Warm Wales – Cymru Gynnes CBC is a Community Interest Company, established in 2004, to deliver fuel poverty and associated programmes in Wales. With the aim to work with others to alleviate fuel poverty and to provide homes in Wales with affordable warmth. In doing so, we make a difference in the everyday lives of people in Wales by making their homes more energy efficient, healthy, comfortable, durable and affordable. “Our mission is to empower people to make the right choices and decisions for themselves to enable them to alleviate fuel poverty and become more resilient”