Cambridge Global Health Partnerships

11/11/2025

Our latest event brought to life how our work is developing people and delivering global health impact. 🌎

A huge thank you to our speakers – NHS staff and students who are recent recipients of CGHP grants and ethical elective funding – who shared how their experiences have advanced their careers and supported the development of others. Their stories highlight how the health partnerships approach is helping to deliver sustainable, long-term change in global health.

The event also echoed a key theme from our new CGHP Impact Report – catalysing personal and professional development. We’re grateful to everyone that joined us including teams visiting us in Cambridge from Uganda and the Philippines – we hope you enjoyed hearing directly from some of the people behind the partnerships and the impact they are helping create.

Thanks to Innovate Cambridge for allowing us to use your inspiring space for this event.



Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | University of Cambridge | Makerere University College of Health Sciences | Rama Foundation

06/11/2025

We’re proud to launch our Impact Report, which highlights how CGHP-facilitated health partnerships are improving global health. 🌎

The report explores an important dimension of our impact – the perspectives and experiences of CGHP members and partners who are directly involved in the health partnerships we support.

The findings were overwhelmingly positive, with 100% of 2024-25 participants reporting they developed new techniques or approaches relevant to their clinical practice. Participants also reported significant growth in understanding of global health issues, expanded their role scopes and enhanced their cultural understanding.

Reach more and download the report: https://cambridgeghp.org/news/new-report-demonstrates-how-cghp-facilitated-partnerships-are-advancing-global-health-impact/

30/10/2025

We look forward to hearing from several CGHP members at our Raising the Bar for Global Health event on Thursday 6 November. ⬆️ Discover how these healthcare professionals and students have contributed to partnerships that are delivering global health impact, and how their experiences are shaping their clinical practice in the UK.

Last chance to register ➡️ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/raising-the-bar-for-global-health-developing-people-delivering-impact-tickets-1733487912009?aff=oddtdtcreator

Guest speakers:
Margaret Baron Catuday, Resuscitation Officer, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and CGHP Global Health Fellow

Alexandra Duncan, Medical Student, University of Cambridge – completed a CGHP Ethical Elective with the Uganda Cambridge Cancer Initiative

Allied Health Professionals involved in the Uttarakhand-Cambridge Health Partnership:

Jenna Sendall, Speech and Language Therapist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dan Shortland, Specialist Resuscitation Nurse, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Helen Mercer, Lead Nurse, Acute Healthcare Strategy, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

29/10/2025

The CGHP Grant Scheme is open for applications until 21 November. 🗓️
NHS staff working in the East of England are invited to apply for up to £1000 towards global healthcare work. Do you have a project in mind? Read more and apply at the link below ⬇️
https://cambridgeghp.org/grant-scheme/

24/10/2025

A team from CGHP and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have just completed a visit to Sri Lanka, focused on strengthening collaborative efforts in paediatric oncology.

The team were hosted by partners at the National Cancer Institute, Sri Lanka and participated in a variety of clinical, academic, and partnership-building activities.

The delegation included CUH Paediatric Oncologists Dr Denise Williams and Dr Gemma Barnard; Dr Upeka Senanayake, a CGHP East of England Global Health Fellow and Specialist Trainee in Paediatric Oncology; and Evelyn Brealey, Director of CGHP.

Key activities included:
➡️ Overview and introductions with the Paediatric Oncology department and visits to Inpatient Wards, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) / High Dependency Unit (HDU), Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Outpatient Clinics, pharmacy.
➡️ Visits to partner palliative and supportive care facilities
➡️ Visit to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children.
➡️ A meeting with the British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Andrew Patrick.



Image 1: The Cambridge delegation with Dr Sanjeeva Gunasekera, Specialist in Paediatric and Adolescent Clinical Oncology at the National Cancer Institute of Sri Lanka, and Dr Aruna Jayasekara, Director of the National Cancer Institute of Sri Lanka

Image 2: Cambridge team visiting the Children’s Department at Sri Lanka’s National Cancer Institute, Apeksha Hospital.

Image 3: Dr Senanayake with the team at National Cancer Institute, Sri Lanka

Image 4: Cambridge and National Cancer Institute, Sri Lanka team with the British High Commissioner, Sri Lanka, Andrew Patrick

16/10/2025

Two of our long-term CGHP volunteers are currently supporting antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) and infection prevention efforts in Kampala. As part of CGHP’s health partnership with Uganda, Clinical Pharmacist, Chloe Aherne and Registered Nurse, Yasmin Boateng from Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are working with teams at Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital and Kawempe National Referral Hospital.

Their placements are focused on strengthening clinical practices to tackle antimicrobial resistance particularly in maternal and neonatal care. They have been working with teams at both hospitals to deliver infection prevention training, central line care training, develop evidence-prescribing guidelines and deliver an audit of AMS on post-natal wards. We are pleased to share a few photo highlights from their first couple of weeks on placement.

Read more about CGHP’s partnership with Uganda: https://cambridgeghp.org/uganda/

Image 1 - CGHP members with the Executive Director and partnerships leads from Makerere University Department of OBGYN.
Images 2 and 3 - Yasmin Boateng delivering IPC and line care training to ICU students and staff at Kawempe.
Images 4 and 5 - Chloe Aherne with the team at Mulago Specialised hospital

07/10/2025

CGHP East of England Global Health Fellow and ENT Surgical Registrar Rachael Collins recently completed a visit focused on improving access to ENT surgical care in rural regions of Tanzania.

During the visit, Rachael and team saw 123 patients, piloted a new digital audiometry tool, and overcame several equipment challenges. In her blog, Rachael reflects on the impact of the visit and the value of the experience to her NHS practice.

Read the full blog: 👇
https://cambridgeghp.org/blogs/improving-access-to-ent-surgical-care-in-rural-regions-of-tanzania/

By Rachael Collins Rachael is an ENT Surgical Registrar and 2025 East of England Global Health Fellow. Rachael is the UK lead for a project that aims to improve access to ENT care in rural regions in partnership with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Tanzania. In this blog, she reflects...

02/10/2025

Our next Raising the Bar for Global Health event is an opportunity to learn how CGHP is developing people and delivering global health impact. Recent recipients of CGHP’s grants and ethical elective bursaries will reflect on their involvement, share how they have contributed to health partnerships, and how their experiences are shaping their clinical practice. 🌍

We’ll also be launching our 2024-2025 Impact Report – join us on the night to be the first to receive a copy and explore the evidence demonstrating the sustainable impact of CGHP. 🚀

We’re delighted to be hosting this event at The Glasshouse @ Innovate Cambridge. We hope you can join us to learn more about the impact of CGHP and connect with members of the global health community. Tickets are free and include light refreshments.

Book your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/raising-the-bar-for-global-health-developing-people-delivering-impact-tickets-1733487912009?aff=oddtdtcreator

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | University of Cambridge

Join us for an inspiring evening of storytelling as recent recipients of CGHP’s grants and elective bursaries share their experiences.

19/09/2025

Community pharmacies are the backbone of healthcare in many areas of Kenya, providing both over-the-counter and prescription medications for many common conditions - including antibiotics. However, the informal nature of some of these transactions and the limited resource for monitoring and patient education mean that antimicrobial resistance is a real concern. 💊

In August, Infectious Diseases Registrar at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and East of England Global Health Fellow, Eleanor Turnbull-Jones visited Kenya to collect data from 22 community pharmacies around Kakamega County. It was the first time that community pharmacy data on antibiotic prescribing had been collected in and is now being rolled out by the Commonwealth Partnership Antimicrobial Stewardship ( ) in other African countries. 🌏

In Ellie’s blog she explains why it was crucial to do the data collection in person, the valuable opportunity to present the results to more than 30 community pharmacists at the Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya’s monthly meeting, and the learnings that are applicable to the .

https://cambridgeghp.org/blogs/strengthening-antimicrobial-stewardship-at-a-community-level/

16/09/2025

What a week our health partnership visitors from Kenya and Malawi had! They spent time with physiotherapy, pharmacy, orthopaedic, audiology and infectious diseases colleagues (and more!) across Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Papworth Hospital, learning and sharing ideas that will strengthen medical education and training programmes, and improve antimicrobial stewardship practices to keep patients safe. 🫶

They also had time for valuable conversations with health leadership staff including CUH Chief Medical Officer Dr Susan Broster, Director of NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre Professor Miles Parkes, and Regius Professor of Physics & Head of the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Professor Patrick Maxwell. 🤝

It's fantastic to see the commitment of and institutions to learn from and share knowledge with healthcare systems globally. Relationships that were strengthened in person last week will continue online as these partnerships go on to make long-term, sustainable and context specific improvements to better meet the needs of patients everywhere. 🌍

12/09/2025

We had a fantastic day yesterday hearing the wisdom and insights from our outgoing East of England global health fellows and welcoming the new cohort for 2026. 💫

By working alongside practitioners in other healthcare systems around the world, these amazing nurses, midwives, Allied Health Professionals and doctors are bringing skills and knowledge into our NHS that will benefit patients everywhere. 💪

From improved cultural awareness to increased confidence, greater resilience to better multidisciplinary working, hearing about the impact the fellowship has had on them personally and professionally is always a reminder of just how much we have to gain from learning globally and the relevance of this knowledge to NHS England's Ten Year Health Plan. 🌍



https://cambridgeghp.org/global-health-fellowships/