Blog Categories: Global Health Fellows
Providing healthcare in the most difficult circumstances: learning from Myanmar
Date: 4 April 2025
East of England Global Health Fellow Annalan Navaratnam reflects on the many learnings to be taken from Myanmar's telemedicine service that is providing a lifeline for conflict-affected communities.
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.
