Ruthanne Baxter

Ruthanne is from Co Fermanagh in Northern Ireland and now lives in Haddington. She joined the university in September 2024 and is enjoying her role focusing on the Community Connections workstream for the Edinburgh Medical School 300, alongside her co-lead, Cathy Southworth, workstream colleagues and also the diverse and brilliant communities across Scotland. 

 

Ruthanne is an ambassador for the power and benefits of the social prescribing movement, with a particular passion for the role of heritage to be a ‘vehicle’ for effective social prescribing.

 

In 2018, she founded Prescribe Culture, a heritage-based non-clinical initiative for mental wellbeing, which has won a Tech4Good Arts and Culture Award. She is also the currently co-investigator on the UKRI research project, “Prescribe Heritage Highland” exploring mechanisms required to scale up the Prescribe Culture approach in remote/rural areas of Scotland.