Health Futures Australia

Who we are

Health Futures Australia (HFA) is a not-for-profit, health promotion charity.

HFA provides services and leadership to a wide range of stakeholders looking to create change and improve the health of their audience, customers and community.

HFA also incubates ideas and champions projects within communities that improve health and wellbeing by building sustainable business practices and economies with a focus on local produce and resources.

Our mission is to inspire healthy change. We value fairness, equity, transparency, and deep-changemaking.

Our CEO and Founder is Dr Shelley Bowen, Shelley is a population health innovator, passionate about lasting system change and leadership of a wellbeing future for all. She designs and enables big thinking, transformative policy, practice and social change processes for better health and wellbeing outcomes. Her expertise is in population and preventive health, collaboration, innovation, scale, strategy and communication, and system design thinking. Shelley is a Westpac Social Change Fellow and an alumni of: Cognitive Edge, IDEO, Presencing Institute Otto Scharmer, Seth Godin's altMBA and a graduate from Stanford's Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship.

What we do

We support efforts Australia-wide, operating virtually and from two branches in Central Victoria and Central Australia. We offer a wide range of products and services:

• 'Consultancy for good' from strategy and innovation to evaluation and impact
• We partner in change and leadership projects
• We provide Leadership and Learning training programs
• We develop social enterprises for health impact

We specialise in how we get from where we are to where we want to be, also known as the 'messy middle. We focus on systems change, transformative leadership, and creative methodologies that engage and inspire all of us to make a difference to our communities health and wellbeing.

One significant area of focus for us is in creating secure healthy food systems, we develop social enterprise approaches to healthy school lunch provision, as example.

Our impact is monitored and measured against our Co-benefits Framework: for health, social, economic and environmental measures to improve health.