Anthologie Perth doubles down on health impact with strategic appointment of Richard Macliver
Perth-based Anthologie has appointed Richard Macliver as Director of Health and Innovation, marking a significant step in the agency’s deepening commitment to creating measurable impact across the health sector.
Macliver brings extensive experience in health innovation, systems thinking, and funding healthcare research. He joins Anthologie’s leadership team to help expand their impact locally and globally – bridging the gap between research, policy, and lived experience.
“Innovating in healthcare is changing at a rapid rate. The impact of AI, access to funding and a health system under stress are pressing challenges shaping the healthcare innovation ecosystem,” Macliver said. “I am excited to join a multidisciplinary team of designers, digital experts and communication specialists to tackle these critical challenges”
With a strong foundation in purpose-led innovation, Anthologie is sharpening its focus across four key impact areas: Health, Community, Environment, and Education. These pillars reflect the agency’s long-standing mission to partner with organisations tackling society’s most complex challenges.
In Health, Anthologie has supported researchers, institutes, and public health leaders across the Global Health landscape – partnering with government and frontline organisations to design more human, inclusive and effective health systems. Recent work includes supporting The Kids Institute, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, ECU’s Centre for Precision Health, Independent Living Assessment, CSIRO, Transplant Australia and Impact Global Health.
“At Anthologie, we design with – not for – communities,” says Amy Sutton, CEO of Anthologie. “Our human-centred methodology ensures the people most impacted are part of the solution. Combined with our technical excellence, we deliver outcomes that are not only fit-for-purpose but future-fit.”
From rare diseases and chronic conditions to mental health, disability and precision medicine, Anthologie brings a multi-disciplinary approach that spans innovation and strategy consulting, digital platforms and experiences, behavioural change communications, and fundraising to deliver on the full spectrum of the health ecosystem – from early-stage research and clinical trials, to prevention and public awareness, models of care and patient experience, to digital health tools and national platforms that connect systems, services and communities.
“We see across the healthcare ecosystem, the shift in allocation of funding towards translational and sustainable research and innovation. This is a significant change in how organisations and individuals apply for funding, deliver their work, and report their findings,” said Sutton. “That means rethinking how purpose aligns with positioning, people, services, systems and storytelling – and finding new ways to remain sustainable by adapting, aligning and amplifying their impact.”
By connecting strategy with story, digital with design, and innovation with implementation, Anthologie enables partners to build platforms that serve communities, experiences that build trust, and narratives that inspire action.
Pictured L–R: Anthologie leadership team with Josh Edge, Jenni Wallis, Amy Sutton (absent Nick Leigh) with Richard Macliver (seated).
Photo credit: Rift Photography.