News
The latest news stories, announcements and opportunities from CGHP.
Season’s Greetings from CGHP
22 December 2023
As we complete another busy and successful year at CGHP, we are very grateful to our members, partners and donors who make our work possible. We’re delighted to share this round up of the last twelve months which gives you a snapshot of the difference your contributions have made. We hope you enjoy reading about the partnership activities and look forward to your continuing support next year.
Working internationally to improve care of critically ill patients
31 October 2023
A team of Cambridge University Hospitals Trust critical care doctors and nurses are visiting Kampala, Uganda this month, as part of the SCALE Critical Care partnership. Over the course of a week, they'll be co-training with Ugandan faculty around 100 ICU staff from across Kampala and other cities in Uganda.
Together for Northwest Syria Medical Aid
20 March 2023
Cambridge Global Health Partnerships (CGHP) and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) are working with Dr Tirej Brimo, an Emergency Medicine doctor at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, to help hospitals in northwest Syria struggling in the ongoing crisis through a fundraising campaign.
Myanmar Clinical Skills Videos
28 February 2023
Members of the Burmese diaspora came together at CUH to film more clinical skills videos for junior doctors, medical students and healthcare volunteers in Myanmar. The video tutorial team completed 14 skills videos. These will be made available on the Myanmar Clinical Guidance website soon. So far, we have filmed 80 videos which have been viewed more than 32,000 times.
Obstetrics & Gynaecology Partnership Visit
18 February 2023
The aim of this project is to publish a textbook that provides information that is appropriate for the context in which it is being used (Africa) and written by authors who work in Africa; a first of its known kind. The textbook will be published online open access by Cambridge University Press.
Paediatric Cancer Partnership Visit
18 February 2023
A team from Cambridge visited partners at the Uganda Cancer Institute. Over the last two years the team have worked to implement emergency chemotherapy protocols, so the visit was an opportunity to understand the implementation of the protocols , and to agree plans for training and collaboration going forward.