Blog Categories: Global Health Fellows
Working side by side to develop a triage tool to better serve children with cancer
Date: 23 July 2025
Research Nurse in Paediatric Oncology, Amanda Semerene explains the value of being able to work face-to-face with fellow nurses at the Uganda Cancer Institute.
Co-developing a triage tool to improve how children with cancer access care
Date: 16 July 2025
CGHP East of England Global Health Fellow Anna Muwanga describes a project with the Uganda Cancer Institute to develop a triage tool that will improve the process by which children with cancer access care.
Together we rise: building strength and ownership in Uganda’s healthcare future
Date: 16 July 2025
Global Health Fellow and Resuscitation Officer Margaret Baron-Catuday describes her renewed enthusiasm for global health work after leading train-the-trainer courses for critical care staff in Uganda.
Making maternity guidelines practical and woman-centred: reflections of a Global Health Fellow
Date: 3 July 2025
Global Health Fellow and Registered Midwife Chiara Valentini explains the personal and professional growth and learning gained from just one week working alongside Ugandan healthcare staff.
Bringing global health into focus for resident doctors
Date: 3 June 2025
Global Health Fellow and GP Registrar Susie Langtree describes her involvement in a community antimicrobial stewardship project in Kenya, and her role in demonstrating the relevance of global health to fellow resident doctors in the UK.
Mental health education in Kenya: working at a community level
Date: 29 May 2025
CGHP East of England Global Health Fellow Fiona Douglas explains a mental health education project she’s developing in Kenya and why working at a community level can be an effective approach.
Same but different: the role of culture and context in healthcare delivery
Date: 29 April 2025
East of England Global Health Fellow Evan Edmond reflects on his fellowship year and why he thinks different perspectives are key to finding treatments and solutions for the world's major health problems.
Advancing surgical training in incontinence surgery in Malawi
Date: 27 March 2025
East of England Global Health Fellow Mayur Gami reflects on a trip to Malawi to provide training and build support for patients with incontinence, as well as the progress being made to develop a much-needed specialised service.
How to plan partnership activity: reflections of a global health fellow and AHP
Date: 10 March 2025
Charly Gilchrist is a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and an East of England Global Health Fellow who's working with a health partnership that’s building skills and capacity of the AHP workforce in India to better support disadvantaged communities.
Learning from a low-resource environment: reflections of a Global Health Fellow
Date: 27 February 2025
Natalia Glibbery is an ENT Registrar and East of England Global Health Fellow. As part of her fellowship she travelled to Malawi with a multidisciplinary team of healthcare staff to deliver ear and hearing care to remote and rural communities.
The power of partnership working to improve access to ear and hearing care
Date: 20 February 2025
Rachael Collins is an ENT Surgical Registrar and East of England Global Health Fellow. Here she reflects on the impact of a visit to Malawi to deliver ear and hearing care and the value of the experience to her NHS practice.
‘Building skills to support my NHS training’: reflections of a Global Health Fellow
Date: 9 December 2024
Eleanor Turnbull-Jones is an Infectious Diseases/General Medicine doctor in training at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) and a Global Health Fellow. Here she explains why she took on the fellowship and the impact she’s been able to have.
Tackling Maternal Emergencies: Reflections of a Global Health Fellow
Date: 17 July 2024
As part of her fellowship year Kati spent a week in Kakamega, Kenya, co-delivering a refresher course on infection control, management of sepsis, postnatal care and major obstetric emergencies in a maternity setting.
Improving the Uganda paediatric oncology sample turnaround time
Date: 27 February 2024
East of England Global Health Fellow Philip Adedokun describes the steps being taken to work towards a faster and more accurate diagnostic process for children with cancer so that they start the correct treatment plan as soon as possible.
