CGHP Impact Celebration & Awards 2025

Recognising Excellence. Inspiring Global Change.

Talks · Panel Discussion · Awards · Poster Competition · Drinks & Nibbles · Networking

Step into an evening of celebration, inspiration, and connection at Cambridge Global Health Partnerships’ Impact Celebration & Awards 2025—our flagship event of the year.

From providing healthcare for refugees to better management of HIV, hear directly from CGHP members, partners, and participants about how their work is driving real-world impact. Through powerful talks and a dynamic panel discussion, we’ll explore how knowledge exchange, partnership, and shared learning can transform practice globally.

Awards

Our awards honour the outstanding individuals and teams whose passion, innovation, and dedication are making a tangible difference in global health. It’s also a chance to thank the supporters and donors who help make this vital work possible.

Who would you like to see recognised? Submit your nomination here.

The award nomination form closes at midnight on Wednesday 11 June.

Poster competition

New for 2025, this year’s poster competition will showcase the breadth and brilliance of global health projects—both within CGHP-supported partnerships and beyond. With three categories, prizes for winners and runners-up, and the opportunity to present shortlisted posters on the night, entries close at midnight on Wednesday 11 June.

Poster competition details and entry form

Keynote speakers

• Professor Sassy Molyneux – Professor in Global Health, University of Oxford; NIHR Global Research Professor and KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) member.
  Sassy Molyneux has a background in human geography, behavioural research and organisational studies. She moved back to UK from Kenya in 2020 after 27 years of working for the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP). Her research interests span health policy and systems research, implementation research and empirical ethics. She is particularly interested in vulnerability, agency and moral distress in health care provision and research conduct; and in health system resilience and responsiveness in the face of chronic stress and periodic shocks. Sassy serves on a number of International Advisory Groups including for Health Systems Global, WHO/TDR, and SARETI (A Southern African Ethics network).
• Dr Abdulazeez Imam – Academic Clinician and Paediatric Registrar
  Dr Imam holds a DPhil in Clinical Medicine from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Leeds. He completed Paediatric training in Nigeria and has worked across Africa in clinical and research roles, including at the Medical Research Council Unit in The Gambia and the KEMRI Wellcome Trust in Kenya. His PhD focused on evaluating a health workforce intervention on the quality of newborn care in Kenyan neonatal units. He is interested in improving newborn care quality in low-resource settings.

Chair

• Dr Tom Basford – Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Assistant Professor in Healthcare Systems at the University of Cambridge; consultant anaesthetist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH); member of NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma; Honorary Advisor to Global Health Partnerships, and past president of the World Anaesthesia Society.

Speakers

• Dr Elinor Moore – Consultant in Infectious Diseases at CUH; Training Programme Director Infectious Diseases, East of England, and Associate Dean for Global Health, NHSE.
• Dr Shadi Basyuni – Specialty Trainee in Maxillo-Facial Surgery, CUH; research fellow with the Royal College of Surgeons, and founder of the CGHP-supported FaceForward Health Partnership with Jordan.
• Charlotte Skipper – Specialist Audiologist at CUH and member of the CGHP-supported Malawi Hearing Project.
• Tinotenda Manyere – Registered nurse and midwife, Cambridge IVF (part of CUH), Zimbabwe diaspora and CGHP grant scheme recipient.
• Dr Anna-May Long – Consultant Paediatric General Surgeon specialising in children’s oncology surgery at CUH.

Plus more to be announced, including partners from Kenya, Uganda and Malawi (visas-pending).

Event sponsor

CGHP is very grateful to our sponsor, Costello Medical, an independent, B Corp certified agency who provide medical communications and health economic services globally, and proudly commit to ethical and sustainable business practices.

Drinks reception and poster viewing

After the presentations, panel discussion and awards presentation, we invite you to continue the conversations and join us for a drinks reception and the opportunity to view the shortlisted posters.

Access

This event will take place in the ground floor lecture theatre and atrium of AstraZeneca’s Discovery Centre (DISC). The venue is step-free with accessible toilets.