WHO WE ARE?

Healthy Way Consulting is a social enterprise consulting firm based in London, Ontario, Canada. We support not-for-profit & public sector organizations in creating a healthy way forward by moving ideas from conception to impact through grant writing, program evaluation, and providing technical support. We approach our work with the conviction that every person deserves to fully participate in their community and live a healthy life. 

Learn more about us and what we do by visiting the following sections: Our Mission, Out Values, Our Team, Community Based-Research Highlights, and our Community-Based Research Highlights.

Our Mission

To help clients make evidence-based decisions that create healthier and more equitable communities.  

Our Values

Our core values guide us to help make a positive impact on communities that need support. 

Social enterprise

Versatility

  • Adapting to a wide variety of projects, policies, and practices based on the needs of organizations and their clients.

Community

  • Working to have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of communities and individuals.
  • Valuing people’s lived experiences and acknowledging how social determinants of health, such as income, education, and employment, impact communities and individuals.

Empowerment

  • Providing organizations with the tools they need to make evidence-based decisions that will create healthier and more equitable communities for everyone.
  • Empowering organizations to help the community by helping understand their client’s needs, lived experiences, and priorities.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion

  • Helping organizations support communities and people who are traditionally marginalized and disadvantaged due to characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ability.
  • Ensuring that our work makes a meaningful impact on equity, diversity, and inclusion.

OUR TEAM

Dr Andrew Clark (PhD)

Owner / Operator

Education

  • PhD, Geography, McMaster University. 2013.
  • MA, Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University. 2008.
  • GIS Application Specialist, Sir Sandford Fleming College. 2006.
  • BA (Hons), Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University. 2005.

Employment

  • Professor (Partial-Load), Bachelor of Environmental Design & Planning, School of Design, Fanshawe College. 2020 – Present.
  • Senior Project Coordinator & Research Associate, Human Environments Analysis Laboratory, Western University. 2015 – 2022.
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Human Environments Analysis Laboratory, Western University. 2012-2015.
  • Research Associate, McMaster University. 2008-2012.
  • Research Associate, Wilfrid Laurier University. 2006-2008.

Profile

This firm is owned and operated by Dr. Andrew Clark (PhD), a researcher with over 15 years of experience in an academic environment. With training from Wilfrid Laurier University (BA, MA), Sir Sandford Fleming College (GIS-AS), McMaster University (PhD), and Western University (PDF), Andrew has extensive experience working with Southwestern Ontario non-profit organizations, municipalities, health units, and researchers to provide evidence that has helped shape the programs, policies, and practices that improve the health and well-being of our community. 

Andrew has spent the last 10 years working at Western University’s Human Environments Analysis Laboratory (HEALab) with some of the best researchers in the country, including Director Dr. Jason Gilliland. Through his time at the HEALab, he has worked closely with community partners, such as municipalities, health units, and non-profits, to use his skills and experience as a researcher to improve our community. To learn more about Andrew’s experiences, you can check out his Curriculum Vitae and Highlights of his Community-Based Research from his time at the HEALab.

Nadia Tirolese

Content Writer & Editor

Education

  • Micro-Credential, Tools for Success in Writing, Western University. 2023.
  • Post-Graduate Certificate, Publishing, Toronto Metropolitan University. 2020.
  • BA, English Literature, Western University. 2013.

Profile

Nadia has over five years of experience writing academically and professionally. She is enthusiastic about mindfulness, healthy living, literature, art, music, and psychology. While earning her BA in English Literature at Western University, she learned to write clearly, persuasively, and precisely. Her studies at Toronto Metropolitan University included learning to create publicity for authors, copyedit texts, and design books. Her relevant experience includes writing website advertising copy and short-form articles and editing student submissions for an academic journal.

As a content writer her goal is to emphasize unique selling points of organizations through informative storytelling. She can adapt to a variety of different writing and editing projects, paying close attention to the values and voice of each organization she collaborates with. Her observant and investigative nature and leads her to excel at researching and synthesizing information. An out-of-the-box thinker, she brings unique solutions to problems by considering situations from a different angle. In an editing role, she uses her keen eye for detail to improve the consistency and clarity of documents while also keep the author’s intentions and audience’s perspective in mind.

Our Experiences

Healthy Way Consulting may be a pretty young business, but our owner & operator, Dr. Andrew Clark, has worked as a consultant for almost 10 years. Here are some examples of some of the evaluations and planning projects Healthy Way Consulting (previously operating under Andrew Clark) has worked on over the years. Most are confidential in nature, thus no final reports can be shared. (Format: Project Name | Date | Description | Client | Relevant Links | Keywords)

  • 2023 – 2026 Strategic Plan for the St Thomas Elgin London Middlesex & Oxford Active & Safe Routes to School Steering Committee. | 2023 | Lead the development of the 2023-26 Strategic plan clearly describes the plans for this active steering committee throughout the next 3 years, including refining the values and mission of the organization, and developing a work plan that can be followed to help achieve the organizations goals and objectives. | ELMO ASRTS | Website | Strategic Plan | Active School Travel; Public Health; Transportation; Strategic Planning
  • Neighbourhood Decision Making Evaluation: How Fair and Equitable is Participatory Budgeting in the City of London, Canada? | 2022-23 | To assess whether the Neighbourhood Decision Making program has fairly and equitably succeeded in meeting the programs core principles. Specifically, the project evaluated whether the program effectively impacted every neighbourhood and contributed to the quality of life for everyone regardless of socioeconomic status and neighbourhood. | City of London | GIS; Spatial Analysis; Equity; Program Evaluation; Recommendations; Participatory Budgeting
  • Stroke Services Google Maps | 2021 | Creating a Google Mashup map of stroke services available to patients across Ontario. | Southwestern Ontario Stroke Network | Website | GIS; Mapping; Health Service Planning; Health
  • Future Need for Child Care Spaces in London-Middlesex | 2016-20 | Develop a tool that can be used to assess need of child care spaces across the City of London and Middlesex County using a spatial analysis methodology. The final output included a Python Tool for ArcGIS Pro Advanced that could be used by the City to recreate metrics as child care facilities and spaces change over time. | City of London | Early Years; Child Care; Child Development; GIS: Spatial Analysis; Custom Tools
  • Assessing Service Area for Stroke Care in Southwestern Ontario | 2018 | Develop an analysis assessing stroke service service areas using network distance accessibility analysis in GIS. | Southwestern Ontario Stroke Network | Health Service Planning; GIS; Spatial Analysis; Stroke Services; 
  • Geographic Accessibility to Primary Care in the Grand Bend Area | 2016 | Assessing social determinants of health in the Grant Bend area of Southwestern Ontario and the accessibility to primary care providers within the region | Grand Bend Area Community Health Centre | Primary Care Provider; Health; Accessibility; GIS; Spatial Analysis; Health Service Planning
  • Family Centres Site Identification | 2016 | Develop an equity-based report to identify potential locations for future family centres in London, ON using spatial analysis, GIS, & social determinants of health. | City of London | Early Years; Child Development; Equity; GIS; Spatial Analysis

Community-Based Research Highlights

The experience Andrew has gained over the last 10 years while working years at Western University’s Human Environments Analysis Laboratory has been extensive and diverse under the supervision of Dr. Jason Gilliland, focusing on topics such as policy, population health interventions, grant writing, and more! Here are highlights of some community-based projects he has collaborated on while at the HEALab (Format: Name | Description | Community Partner | Important Links | Keywords):
  • Understanding Health Inequities and Access to Primary Care in the South West LHIN | The development of recommendations that support equitable access to primary care for individuals most impacted by the social determinants of health through literature review, mapping, and spatial analysis | Report | Policy; Southwestern Ontario; Healthcare; Spatial Analysis
  • Linking Health & The Built Environment in Rural Settings | Developing evidence and recommendations for planning healthy communities in Middlesex County through policy scan and interviews with policy makers across the County | Middlesex London Health Unit | Report | Policy; Rural; Public Health; Built Environment
  • Investigation of Supportive Policy for Active School Travel | Evidence-based recommendations for policies to promote active transportation for school journeys developed through a literature review, surveys, and interviews |  Ontario Active School Travel | Report | Policy; Active Transportation; Children; Build Environment; School; Planning
  • The Grade 5 ACT-i-Pass Program | Developing, implementing, & evaluating a community-based population health intervention to provide grade 5 students with access to free recreation facilities | London’s Child & Youth Network | Program Website | Registration Research | Usage Research | PA Level Research | Child Engagement Research | Intervention; Population Health; Health Promotion; Physical Activity; Children
  • School Travel Planning | Developing, implementing, and evaluating the school travel planning program whose goal is to use the 6 E’s of road safety to increase the number of children who use active and sustainable modes to travel to and from school each day | St. Thomas, Elgin, London Middlesex, Oxford Active & Safe Routes to School Steering Committee & Ontario Active School Travel | Organization Website | Program Website | AST Webinar | Research Study 1; Research Study 2; Research Study 3; Research Study 4 | Intervention; Population Health; Health Promotion; Physical Activity; Children Active Transportation
  • Healthy Kids Community Challenge | Worked with the City of London and other partners to write an application to receive $1 million to promote healthy eating, physical activity, and healthy behaviours for children in the city; we also worked with the City to support evaluation and assessment for activities in both the City of London & Middlesex County | City of London Community Needs Assessment | Water Does Wonders Evaluation | Children; Physical Activity; Healthy Eating; Health Promotion