Innes Hope Pearse (1889–1978) was an English medical doctor who co-founded a health centre that became famous as part of the Peckham Experiment.

[1] For seven years, she was also part-time medical adviser to the Alice Model infant welfare centre in the East End, a charitable project.

[2] She continued this alongside a thyroid research project at the Royal Free Hospital which she joined as a medical registrar[3] in 1921, working with George Scott Williamson.

Pearse thought doctors and others needed to take a "deeper look at the natural laws governing health in human society".

[1] She believed strongly in leaving responsibility with the individual[3] and, in this spirit, doctors at the Pioneer Centre gave health checks and medical information but left people to decide what to do, whether to seek treatment etc.

From 1935 Pearse leased Oakley Farm in Bromley, Kent,[4] where organic food was grown for members of the Health Centre.

Pearse prepared his theoretical Science, Synthesis and Sanity for publication in 1965 and worked on her own "reflective"[1] book The Quality of Life, published posthumously.