Blog Categories: Global Health Fellows
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.
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.
