News
The latest news stories, announcements and opportunities from CGHP.
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.
Critical Care Team visit
11 February 2023
A team of three nurses from CUH Critical Care Unit visited Kampala within the SCALE Critical Care partnership. The team delivered a two-day course in the basics of critical care to two cohorts of nurses, training 72 nurses in total over the week. Nurses from the main three critical care units in Kampala, attended. The training was designed with the nursing team on both sides of the partnership and comprised bed-side teaching on the wards and interactive teaching sessions.
FCDO visit to Cambridge Global Health Partnerships
1 February 2023
We were delighted to host a meeting in Cambridge in February with the FCDO-Burma team led by the Senior Health Advisor We presented and discussed our work to support healthcare workers in Myanmar . A CGHP committee member and member of the diaspora and Royal College of GPs also joined the meeting to exchange information. It was a fruitful meeting, and a great opportunity to understand the future direction and plans for FCDO’s health programme in Myanmar.
Team visit Malawi
23 January 2023
Global Health Fellow, Catherine de Cates, Isobel Fitzgerald O’Connor and Tamsin Holland Brown, recently visited Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and the deaf school in Blantyre, Malawi in the first stage of a project supporting children with glue ear & serous otitis media. Of all deaf children across the world fewer than 10% wear a hearing aid of any kind. Research in Cambridge has searched for an affordable solution for the most common type of hearing loss in childhood affecting the middle ear: glue ear.
Nursing Partnership Visit to Sierra Leone
8 January 2023
In January a nursing team from the Bo Stroke Partnership had their first visit to Sierra Leone. Diana Day and Magda Cerei, both nurses from Cambridge travelled to meet the wider partnership team and with Patrick, former Cambridge University Hospital (CUH) Stroke Nurse, who set up the partnership. Amongst other meetings the team met with the Nursing Now Challenge Fellows at Bo Hospital; Kings Sierra Leone Partnerships ; and Esther Jabbie, matron of Bo Government District Hospital (pictured).