Independent health consulting for the resources sector
Registered in and operating from the United Kingdom, SHAPE Health Consulting Ltd is an independent health consulting company that provides strategic health support to companies in the extractive and natural resources sector.
Our Vision
To become and remain a trusted advisor to our clients and the global reference point in conducting health impact assessments and supporting strategic health advice and risk management for community health and safety, workplace health and wellbeing, and emergency preparedness.
Our Mission
To support our clients to effectively anticipate, recognise and manage workplace health risks — ensuring a cost-effective duty of care — and to support the effective integration of potential community health and safety impacts and community development, aligned to organisations’ environmental, social and governance frameworks.
Principal-led, with a senior team
Mark Divall
Mark is a medical doctor with over two decades of experience in remote-area health practice across the natural resources and extractive sector, with postgraduate qualifications in anaesthesia, occupational health and medicine, tropical medicine and hygiene, and environmental medicine. He is a recognised authority in health impact assessment, having led well over one hundred assessments across mining, oil and gas, pipelines, power and agriculture, and has acted as a global health advisor to a multinational mining organisation since 2015.
Photo to followIzak Olivier
A senior consultant with SHAPE, Izak is a medical doctor with a postgraduate qualification in occupational medicine and health, and in travel medicine. He has supported multiple health impact assessments and other health consultancies for SHAPE since 2016.
A recognised authority in health impact assessment, he has led over 40 assessments across a range of sectors and countries. Izak was community health manager for the Mozambique LNG project from 2012 to early 2016, giving him active experience in conducting assessments as well as implementing and monitoring interventions — including the development of detailed contractor management specifications.
He has supported large and complex projects including large-scale mining, dams and pipelines. Izak's easy-going nature and clear communication allow him to explain complex findings simply and practically, and his extensive occupational health and travel medicine experience helps him understand workplace health issues and manage hazards to avoid or prevent potential community health and safety impacts. He is active in the International Association for Impact Assessment and has spoken at a number of conferences.
Photo to followDr James Moodie
Dr James Moodie joined SHAPE in 2023 to support health impact assessments and the development of digital data-collection and monitoring-and-evaluation systems. He holds qualifications in medicine and science, and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies in occupational medicine.
Before joining SHAPE, James worked on the implementation of a large Community-Oriented Primary Care project. He has supported multiple health impact assessments across Sub-Saharan Africa.
He has a particular interest in improving community health and safety monitoring through digital solutions and, to that end, has developed a range of digitised tools to support SHAPE’s field work.
Specialists and associates
In addition to its core team, SHAPE can call on a broad network of specialists and associates to support the high-quality delivery of solutions to clients. These skills offer a mix of theoretical knowledge, practical experience and innovative solutions to address varying health challenges and opportunities.
SHAPE works with associates and associate organisations across both the professional and academic sectors, and through its networks is able to source local expertise — supporting inputs into the local context, increasing local capacity, and improving the sustained delivery of programmes.
Tell us about the project.
Whether you need a health impact assessment, an independent review of medical services, or senior health counsel at board level — tell us about the project, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right firm for it.