Blog Categories: Uganda
How a week in Uganda inspired and changed a critical care nurse
Date: 25 July 2025
Madeleine Custerson is a Staff Nurse in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit (NCCU) at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Here she describes the enormous impact of a week learning and teaching alongside nurses in Uganda.
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.
Reigniting a love of midwifery in Uganda
Date: 22 July 2025
Georgina Sellick is a critical care nurse and midwife. Here she explains how a week co-teaching and training Ugandan nurses and midwives has reignited her passion for staff learning and development.
Becoming a better educator by learning from different health systems
Date: 21 July 2025
Celeste Formenton is a Critical Care Practice Development Senior Sister at Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (CUH). Here she reflects on the progress made through the SCALE Critical Care Project and the impact it’s had on her as an educator.
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.
A week in Uganda: building sustainable critical care nursing
Date: 25 June 2025
Critical Care Education Lead Lisa Enoch explains the impact of a week in Kampala embedding skills and knowledge for both UK and Ugandan nurses, and why face-to-face visits are such an important component of health partnerships.
Friendship and a supportive learning environment: sharing critical care skills
Date: 22 December 2024
Critical care practice development nurse Gayle Brunskill describes her second three-week placement in Kampala sharing learning and embedding knowledge with Ugandan staff.
‘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.
Gaining new perspectives delivering critical care training
Date: 13 November 2024
Bethany Andrews is a critical care nurse at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. She spent a week in Kampala delivering training with Ugandan faculty on the management of deteriorating patients. Here she explains more about the experience and why it happened at just the right time.
Audit of C-section antibiotic use a step towards driving down resistance
Date: 4 September 2024
Medical student Emma Guenther helped audit antibiotic use in C-section patients in Kampala, which could improve prescribing practices that will help drive down antimicrobial resistance.
An ethical elective focused on improving paediatric cancer care
Date: 29 August 2024
In this blog, medical student Maria Izmirlieva describes her ethical elective working with the Paediatric Cancer Partnership in Kampala.
Pride, resilience and teamwork: the experience of a critical care nurse in Kampala
Date: 21 August 2024
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) critical care nurse Elizabeth Walsh reflects on the renewed passion and enthusiasm for her job that a week working alongside Ugandan nurses has given her.
“One of the best weeks of my life”: reflections of a Cambridge midwife in Kampala
Date: 15 August 2024
Catherine Barlow is Lead Midwife for Maternal Medicine at The Rosie, Cambridge University Hospitals Trust. Here she reflects on a week in Kampala teaching critical care skills for obstetric patients.
Understanding the barriers to accessing cancer care
Date: 13 August 2024
In this blog, medical student Tadeusz Ciecierski-Holmes describes his ethical elective at the Uganda Cancer Institute, supporting the team to make the most efficient use of time and resources.
The one-month elective that will make me a better doctor
Date: 1 August 2024
Mithylan Ganeshwaran describes his four-week ethical elective in Kampala, a transformative experience that provided a huge amount of hands-on learning and ignited a passion for emergency medicine.
Embedding learning and empowering nurses: reflections on a four-week critical care placement
Date: 31 July 2024
Critical Care Practice Development Nurse Livi Rees joined the SCALE Critical Care Project in Kampala for a month to help deliver and embed learning that will strengthen patient care in adult intensive care services.
Slowly improving antimicrobial stewardship practices
Date: 26 July 2024
Stuart Drazich-Taylor is a microbiology doctor who spent three months working with the Kampala Cambridge Antimicrobial Stewardship health partnership in Uganda. Here he reflects on the experience, learnings and what he plans to do next.
How pharmacists can empower other healthcare professionals
Date: 25 July 2024
Bobby Shum is a pharmacist and a firm believer in the vital role pharmacists can play in public health. He recently returned from three months working with the Kampala Cambridge Antimicrobial Stewardship health partnership in Uganda.
How hospital laboratories can help tackle AMS: Reflections of a long-term volunteer in Kampala
Date: 12 April 2024
One month into his placement, microbiologist Stuart Drazich-Taylor describes how sample processing works in Kampala and the critical role microbiology laboratories play in the surveillance of antimicrobial resistant organisms.
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.
Kindness in the face of challenges: reflections on an ethical elective in Uganda
Date: 4 September 2023
From Uganda to Cambridge: Lifelong learnings from a global ethical elective
Date: 15 August 2023
