Reframing Health Partnerships: Diverse Voices In A New Era

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COVID-19 is not the only crisis we have faced in this last year, a myriad of challenges have tested our Partnerships, communities and health systems. From war to climate change and from inequity to funding cuts we have stood together in the midst of this global shift.

New voices are mobilizing alongside established players, driven by considerations of technology, geography, race, inequality, and the value afforded the expertise of different cadres of health workers.

This inspires us to think afresh about who are the experts, and how we can strengthen partnerships in a highly contested world. As Moazzam Malik, former DG of FCDO has said, the answer to a more contested world, is not endless contestation, but endless collaboration.

This year’s THET Conference will be the most diverse to-date, providing a platform to celebrate those involved in Health Partnerships, and to welcome new partners. With an emphasis on people’s experiences of practical engagement at this time, the conference will inspire all involved to forge new relationships, individually and organizationally.

Reframing Health Partnerships: Diverse Voices In A New Era will celebrate the bridges that are being built for the curious and the inquisitive, allowing participants from across the world to meet.

the AGENDA

Thursday, 13 October 2022

9.00 - 9.05

Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Tedros A. Ghebreyesus | Director General, WHO

9.05 - 9.10

Opening Remarks
Ben Simms | CEO, THET

9.10 - 9.25

Keynote Address
Dr. Richard Horton | Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet

9.25 - 9.40

Keynote Address
Honorable Sylvia Masebo, MP, Minister of Health | Zambia

9.40 - 9.55

Keynote Address
Gaunima Manandhar | Registered nurse in Nepal

9.55 - 10.15

Q&A

10.15 - 10.30

Coffee Break

BREAKOUT SESSION | THE PLANET
Health and Climate Change: what can the global health community do?

10.30 - 11.15

Chair:
Prof. Mala Rao OBE | Senior Clinical Fellow, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London

Speakers:
Rachel McLean | Green Ward Programme Manager, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

10.30 - 11.15

BREAKOUT SESSION | THE SYSTEM
SCALE

Chair:
Prof. Andrew Leather | Professor of Global Health and Surgery at King’s College London

Speakers:
Dr. JP Bagala | Team Lead, Uganda UK Health Alliance

Tom Bashford | Clinical Research Fellow, NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma

IN CONVERSATION WITH

11.15 - 11.30

Speakers:
Adebayo Alade | Radiology doctor in training, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Paul Matthews | Advance Practice Radiographer, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

11.30 - 12.00

Coffee Break

DEEP DIVE ROUNDTABLE | THE WORKFORCE
Wellbeing: Stigmatisation of healthcare workers

Chair:
Dr. Sheba Gitta | Country Director Uganda, THET

12.00 - 13.00

Speakers:
Dr Musa Sekikubo | Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, Makarere University

Dr Sikiratu Kailani-Ahmadu | Public Health Practitioner & Champion at Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Making Abortion Safe programme

Asiya Odugleh-Kolev | Technical Officer, Community and Social Interventions, WHO (Geneva), Quality of Care Team.

Francis Fernando | Associate Director of Nursing and Quality, North East London NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Sulaiman Lakoh | Infectious Diseases Lead, Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone

13.15 - 13.35

Keynote Address
Megan Challis | Head of Strategic Partnerships, Wellcome Trust

13.35 - 13.50

The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP | TBC

13.50 - 14.00

Concluding Remarks
Roda Ali Ahmed | Lecturer, University of Hargeisa | THET Trustee

Friday, 14 October 2022

9.00 - 9.05

Welcoming Remarks
Justin Ash | Chair of Trustees, THET

9.05 - 9.20

Keynote Address
Tikhala Italye | Director, Global Movement Building Women in Global Health, Malawi

9.20 - 9.35

Keynote Address
Sue Tranka | Chief Nursing Officer for Wales

9.35 - 9.50

Keynote Address
Vanessa Carter | Patient Advocate for Antimicrobial Resistance

9.50 - 10.15

Q&A

10.15 - 10.30

Coffee Break

BREAKOUT SESSION | THE SYSTEM

10.30 - 11.15

Chair:
Prof. David Phillips | Professor of Endocrine and Metabolic Programming at the University of Southampton

Speakers:
To be confirmed

BREAKOUT SESSION | THE PLANET

Chair:
Ciaran Barbour | Digital Engagement Officer, THET

10.30 - 11.15

Speakers:
Emily McMullen | Senior Programme Manager, HEE

Madhukar Bose | Deputy Head of Healthcare: Digital Health, Department for International Trade

Isabela Borges

Clara Rodrigues Alves de Oliveira

BREAKOUT SESSION: THE WORKFORCE
Showcasing diaspora health workers’ global health activity

Chair:
Prof. Kelechi Nnoaham | Chair of Wales and Africa Health Links Network

10.30 - 11.15

Speakers:
Moses Mulimara | Project Manager at NHS Health Education England

Janerose Buyiekha | Lead | Betsi-Kenya Health Link, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Bernard Okeah | Member | Betsi-Kenya Health Link

Lucy Obolensky | Associate Professor Global and Remote Healthcare University of Plymouth

IN CONVERSATION WITH

11.15 - 11:30

Speakers:
To be confirmed

11:30 - 12.00

Coffee Break

12.00 - 12:10

HEAL Campaign
Prof. Marion Lynch | Global Health Consultant and nominated Gates Foundation Goalkeeper 2022 HEAL Campaign

DEEP DIVE ROUNDTABLE

12:10 - 13.00

Chair:
Ben Simms | CEO, THET

Panellists:
Dr. Shams Syed | Unit Head Quality of Care, WHO headquarters

Evelyn Brealey | Director of Cambridge Global Health Partnerships

Hamdi Issa | Ministry of Health and Development | Somaliland

Muleba Matafwali | Country Director Zambia, THET

IN CONVERSATION WITH

13.00 - 13.15

Speakers:
To be confirmed

13.15 - 13:30

Closing Remarks
The Lord Crisp KCB | Co-Chair of the APPG Global Health and Independent Crossbench Member

13:30 - 14.00

Facing the future
The Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | Crossbench member of the House of Lords.

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DR. TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS

Director General | WHO

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected WHO Director-General for a five-year term by WHO Member States at the Seventieth World Health Assembly in May 2017. In doing so, he was the first WHO Director-General elected from among multiple candidates by the World Health Assembly, and was the first person from the WHO African Region to head the world’s leading public health agency.

Born in the Eritrean city of Asmara, Dr Tedros graduated from the University of Asmara with a Bachelor of Biology, before earning a Master of Science (MSc) in Immunology of Infectious Diseases from the University of London, a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Community Health from the University of Nottingham and an Honorary Fellowship from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Following his studies, Dr Tedros returned to Ethiopia to support the delivery of health services, first working as a field-level malariologist, before heading a regional health service and later serving in Ethiopia’s federal government for over a decade as Minister of Health and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

As Minister of Health from 2005 to 2012, he led a comprehensive reform of the country’s health system, built on the foundation of universal health coverage and provision of services to all people, even in the most remote areas.

Under his leadership, Ethiopia expanded its health infrastructure, developed innovative health financing mechanisms, and expanded its health workforce. A major component of reforms he drove was the creation of a primary health care extension programme that deployed 40 000 female health workers throughout the country. A significant result was an approximate 60% reduction in child and maternal mortality compared to 2000 levels.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016, he elevated health as a political issue nationally, regionally and globally. In this role, he led efforts to negotiate the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, in which 193 countries committed to the financing necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Prior to his election as Director-General of WHO, Dr Tedros held many leadership positions in global health, including as Chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Chair of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, and Co-chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Board.

After taking office as WHO Director-General on 1 July 2017, Dr Tedros initiated the most significant transformation in the Organization’s history, which has generated a wide range of achievements.

RICHARD HORTON

Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet

He qualified in physiology and medicine with honours from the University of Birmingham in 1986. He joined The Lancet in 1990, moving to New York as North American Editor in 1993. In 2016, he chaired the Expert Group for the High Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, convened by Presidents Hollande of France and Zuma of South Africa.

From 2011 to 2015, he was co-chair of the UN's independent Expert Review Group on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health. In 2011, he was elected a Foreign Associate of the US Institute of Medicine and, in 2015, he received the Friendship Award from the Government of China. In 2019, he was awarded the WHO Director-General’s Health Leaders Award for outstanding leadership in global health and the Roux Prize in recognition of innovation in the application of global health evidence.

In 2021, he received the Physicians for Human Rights Award in recognition of extraordinary leadership in advancing health and human rights. He now works to develop the idea of planetary health – the health of human civilizations and the ecosystems on which they depend.

In 2020, he published The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again. A revised, updated, and expanded second edition was published in 2021.

HON. SYLVIA MASEBO, MP

Minister of Health | Zambia

SUE TRANKA

Chief Nursing Officer for Wales

Sue Tranka was appointed as the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales and Nurse Director of NHS Wales in the summer of 2021. She was formerly the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for Patient Safety and Innovation at NHS England and Improvement from January 2020 and also held the role of Director of Infection prevention and control leading the national team in its response to supporting guidance development, implementation and remobilisation of NHS services. Protecting staff and patients from nosocomial transmission of Covid has been a key focus of her work since the start of the pandemic.

Sue has 29 years of varied experience in nursing and has spent the last 22 years working in the National Health Service. Sue trained as a midwife, registered general nurse, mental health nurse and community nurse. Sue’s career has spanned both operational and clinical leadership roles. Her passion for patient safety and quality improvement culminated in her establishing and leading a Critical Care Outreach team in a North London hospital. Sue‘s nurse consultant and leadership roles have predominantly focused in the safety arena and she has a strong interest in quality improvement, human factors and safety systems.

More recently she has held a Board level role as an Executive Chief Nurse in a provider organisation. She has previously been made an honorary visiting professor by the University of Surrey but has now relinquished the role and has established links with Staffordshire University as a professional advisor on human factors programmes.

In October 2020, Sue was listed among the Health Service Journal’s 50 most influential people in health from a black, Asian and minority ethnic background, and in December 2021 was awarded a fellowship of the Queen’s Nursing Institute.

As of April 2022, Sue holds the title of Honorary Visiting Professor at Cardiff University.

DR. SHAMS SYED

Unit Head Quality of Care, WHO headquarters

DR. JP BAGALA

East Africa Regional Lead- SCALE Program | Obstetrician (MMed Obs & Gyn)

Dr. JP. Bagala is currently the Regional Lead for the SCALE Program in East Africa supporting the implementation of the program in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda. He’s a member of several Boards including the International Uro-gynaecological Association (IUGA), National Safe motherhood Expert Committee, Women’s Health and Research Institute at Makerere University (WHRI-Mak), Health Systems Think-Tank (HST) and Uganda UK Health Alliance (UUKHA). He’s an actively practicing obstetrician with a strong passion on Global Maternal and Newborn Health.

GAUNIMA MANANDHAR

Registered nurse in Nepal & Field Researcher

Gaunima has recently completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences and started working as a Field Researcher with Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) in June 2021.

Gaunima has a wide range of interests and has worked on different projects during her studies and since graduating, namely “Factors Affecting Covid-19 mortality in Nepal”, “Population Based Cancer Registry in Nepal”, “Assessing Health Complications of Covid-19 recovered People Visiting Selected Hospitals of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal”, “Prevalence of Rheumatic Musculoskeletal Pain and Disability in Western Nepal a Cross-sectional Community Based Study Adopting WHO ILAR COPCORD Stage I Protocol”.

Gaunima is currently working as a Field Researcher in Nepal Health Research Council, and is one of the early-career nurses enrolled in the Nursing Now Challenge Fellowship programme managed by THET, where she is taking part in a Leadership and Quality Improvement training, while working on a Quality Improvement project on “Improving Handoff Practices Among Nursing Staff of Tertiary Level Hospital in Nepal” with 6 other nurses from Nepal.

PROF. KELECHI NNOAHAM

Executive Director of Public Health for Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Chair of Wales and Africa Health Links Network

Kelechi is Executive Director of Public Health for Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Chair of Wales and Africa Health Links Network. Kelechi’s background is in Infectious Diseases Medicine and he has broad interests in Global Health. He has held senior Public Health positions in the NHS and Local Government since 2005 as well as honorary professorships in Public Health with Plymouth University (since 2015) and Cardiff University (since 2021). With extensive experience in global and international health, Kelechi’s key current interest is in harmonising the input of the Health Service with those of communities, public and third sector partners to improve population health and narrow disparities in health and wellbeing.

THE LORD CRISP KCB

Co-Chair of the APPG Global Health and Independent Crossbench Member

Lord Nigel Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords where he co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health. He also co-chairs Nursing Now, the global campaign on nursing.

He was previously Chief Executive of the English NHS and Permanent Secretary of the UK Department of Health where he led major reforms between 2000 and 2006.

Lord Crisp is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Medicine. He was formerly a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health and Regent’s Lecturer at Berkeley.

His publications on global health include Turning the world upside down – the search for global health in the 21st Century; Global Health Partnerships; One World Health – an overview of global health after Global Health Partnerships; and, edited with Francis Omaswa, African Health Leaders – making change and claiming the future. He described his time as Chief Executive of the NHS in 24 Hours to Save the NHS – the Chief Executive’s account of reform 2000 – 2006.

Lord Crisp became THET’s inaugural Patron in December 2018 and has been supporting the work of THET since 2009.

TIKHALA ITAYE

Director, Global Movement Building
Women in Global Health

Tikhala is Human Rights Lawyer and Public Health Specialist from Malawi that has spent the past 10 years in policy advocacy and movement building work related to sexual reproductive health rights and gender justice. Tikhala is currently the Director of Global Movement Building at Women in Global Health. She has served as a UNAIDS Social Justice Think Tank member, a board member on the Global Partnership on Maternal, Newborn and Child health and is the former Chairperson for the Global Political Movement on women and girls’ rights called SheDecides. Tikhala has a track record
in engaging and presenting at national, regional and international political high-level platforms.

DR. SIKIRATU KAILANI-AHMADU

Public Health Practitioner

Dr. Sikiratu Kailani-Ahmadu is a Public Health Practitioner with over thirty years of experience in healthcare leadership and client consultations. Over the past fifteen years, she has had a hands-on experience in leadership of the implementation of various National developmental projects being funded by International agencies. With outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills, which have been demonstrated while executing health programs in more than 20 states across Nigeria.

She worked in Ipas Nigeria for 10 years, seven of which were as the Health System/Clinical Advisor in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of training and service delivery. In collaboration with the Government Officials and key Stakeholders, she represented Ipas in the development of strategic priorities for expanding women’s access to safe abortion Care. As a Master Trainer; She has built the capacity of staff of various cadres in implementing Health System Strengthening initiatives. Dr. Sikiratu Kailani-Ahmadu is an OBGYn, a Fellow of the West African Postgraduate College of Surgeons and holds a Master’s degree in Public Health.

THE BARONESS FINLAY OF LLANDAFF

Crossbench member of the House of Lords.

MOSES MULIMIRA

Project Manager at NHS Health Education England

Moses Mulimira Currently works as a Project Manager supporting Health Alliances and Diaspora Fellowships Engagement at NHS Health Education England . Prior to this, he was the UK lead of Uganda UK Health Alliance, Co-Chair of East London NHS Global Health Link and a Public Health Addictions Clinician in NHS.

PROF. MALA RAO

Senior Clinical Fellow, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London

Professor Mala Rao is a Senior Clinical Fellow at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, Medical Adviser to NHS England on Workforce Race Equality, and Vice Chair, WaterAid UK.

She was born and raised in India, where she decided while still a young girl that she would become a doctor. She studied medicine in Delhi at the height of the small pox eradication era, and was inspired to specialize in public health by the success of the systematic efforts of doctors and their teams to rid the world of this scourge.

While in the UK pursuing postgraduate training, Dr. Rao was recruited to the NHS training programme for public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. During her training years, she married a fellow junior doctor who became a rural GP in England, and they had three daughters.

In her early career, Dr. Rao spent 17 years as an NHS consultant, and later Director of Public Health for her county. She underpinned her public health practice with research, audit, and development. In 1997, she established England’s first evidence-based cancer network, having persuaded 120 clinicians in her Health Authority to work with her towards this common goal.

She spent six years in India, where she led a number of research and development projects aimed at improving access to good quality health care for the poor. Dr. Rao has worked closely with the Indian and UK governments, the World Health Organization, frontline health staff at primary health centers and hospitals, and other organizations to reform health care policies and practice with benefits to millions of disadvantaged people.

In 2003, she became the Head of Public Health Workforce for England, at the Department of Health, London. Her ‘Teaching Public Health Networks’ program has evolved into the UK Healthy Universities Network.

Dr. Rao is globally recognized for championing climate change action and raising awareness of its impacts on women’s health, and access to safe water and sanitation. She instigated and co-edited the ‘Health Practitioner’s Guide to Climate Change’. Dr. Rao is widely published and is the recipient of a number of awards, including being made an Officer of the British Empire by the Queen in 2013 for services to public health in the UK and overseas.

JUSTIN ASH

Chair of Trustees | THET

DR. SHEBA GITTA

Country Director - Uganda | THET

Sheba is a global health professional and public health leader with fifteen years work experience in multi-sectoral programme management including health systems strengthening, child protection, workforce development, multi-disciplinary research implementation as well as networking and partnership building. She has a Bachelors degree of Dental Surgery and a Masters of Public Health from Makerere University.

Prior to joining THET, Sheba served as Research Director at the AfriChild Centre (Centre for the study of the African Child), Deputy Executive Director at the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)-a regional non-profit network organization of over 20 African countries and as lecturer at Makerere University School of Public Health. She is passionate about scientific writing and has worked as Managing Editor at the Pan African Medical Journal (PAMJ) and Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health (JIEPH).

PROF. JUDITH ELLIS OBE

Judith served as Chair of Trustees of THET from 2016-2021. She is a registered adult and children’s nurse with a PGCE in education and a PhD focused on evaluating the effectiveness of benchmarking to share and thus achieve clinical best practice.

Judith has held many senior posts in clinical practice and leadership including 8 years as the Director of Nursing and Workforce at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. She worked at the Department of Health, England providing a nursing focus for policy work on Quality and Patient Participation and Public Involvement and was Pro Vice Chancellor / Executive Dean for Health and Social Care at London South Bank University where she still holds an Honorary Chair.

For five years Judith was a registrant member of the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council and was interim chair for 6 months in 2012, during which time she had the opportunity to review LMIC approaches to professional regulation and patient safety.

Judith has worked with, and chaired, charities supporting LMIC health service development for over 20 years and retired from her position as CEO of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2018 to concentrate on supporting international workforce development.

In 2019 she was awarded the OBE for Services to the Health Service.

VANESSA CARTER

Patient Advocate for Antimicrobial Resistance

Vanessa is an Antibiotic Resistance and One Health activist as well as an e-Patient Scholar. She is further the founder of hcsmSA which is an acronym for Health Communication and Social Media South Africa. hcsmSA started as a Twitter chat which she moderated on the hashtag #hcsmSA with a group of diverse stakeholders to discuss Sustainable Health Development particularly in the area of digital transformation.

Vanessa was the creative director of Artext, an advertising company which she established in 1997. Due to a severe car accident during 2004 in Johannesburg, she spent ten years through the medical system reconstructing damage caused to her face with a multi-disciplinary team which resulted in MRSA. In 2013, she combined her patient experience and marketing skills to diversify her services by offering medical website design to HCP’s which included patient education resources like 3D animated videos because one of the greatest challenges she had was the lack of access to online specialists and accurate, decipherable information. In 2015 she closed her marketing business to pursue an e-Patient Scholarship and #hcsmSA full-time.

Since 2013 Vanessa has been appointed as an advising e-Patient to The South African Antibiotic Stewardship Program (SAASP) and ASPIRES (Antibiotic use across Surgical Pathways – Investigating, Redesigning and Evaluating Systems), EyeforPharma, InfectionControl.Tips and Doctors 2.0 and You, Paris. She has been nominated for various business achiever awards including the NSBC (National Small Business Chamber of Commerce – Entrepreneur’s Section) and won the WOS – Woman of the Year Director’s Award in 2015 in recognition of her activism and community upliftment. In 2018, she received the Tropics Magazine Top 200 African Changemakers Award and she was invited as a civil guest to present her e-Patient story for a meeting at the Africa CDC / African Union in Ethiopia which focused on the implementation of the Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy for Africa. Vanessa has also appeared as an e-Patient guest for the NHS Digital Academy through the Edinburgh University MSc Global e-Health Programme as well as presented at the Africa Health Digital Summit and the International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC).

She was an accredited Social Media Ambassador for the Health Information Management Systems Society in 2017 #HIMSS17, is currently an e-Patient Scholar at Stanford University Medicine X, a co-chair of The Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) Health IT SIG and a member of the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF) which focuses on the principles of human-centered design. Vanessa is also a patient reviewer for the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Patient and Public Partnership Program.

One of Vanessa’s major achievements has been her contribution towards the implementation of the Antibiotic Guardian Pledge Campaign in South Africa working alongside Professor Adrian Brink, one of the co-chairs of the South African Antibiotic Stewardship Program (SAASP), as well as Head of the Division at the Medical Microbiology Department at the University of Cape Town. The Pledge was later adopted by the National Department of Health. Vanessa won the Antibiotic Guardian Community Communications Award in 2020 for her commitment to promoting patient and public engagement.

RACHEL MCLEAN

Green Ward Programme Manager | Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

Rachel is the Green Ward Programme Manager for the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, coaching healthcare teams through a sustainable quality improvement competition targeting improved patient care, staff experience, environmental and financial outcomes. Rachel has degrees in psychology and speech pathology. She previously worked as a speech and language therapist in London hospitals, specialising in paediatric and neonatal therapy.

BEN SIMMS

Chief Executive Office | THET

Ben has been CEO of the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) since 2015. He has 30 years’ experience of working internationally, with an emphasis on global health and disability work. He has worked extensively across Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia during this time, harnessing expertise from across the UK health community, in the NHS and in specialist medical charities such as Sue Ryder and Sense, to benefit the development of health and social care in low and middle-income countries. For the last fifteen years he has been in leadership roles, building a strong track-record in advocacy and programme innovation, and working closely with UK Government departments and UN agencies. His knowledge of the INGO sector is further informed by periods chairing BOND Working Groups and taking active roles in health networks such as STOPAIDS, the network he directed from 2010 to 2015. Ben has led an active voluntary life in the UK throughout this time, serving as a Councillor and acting as a Trustee of several charities. He became a Fellow of the RSA in 2019 and is a member of the BBC Charity Appeals Advisory Committee. Ben has an MSc in Development Management from the Open University and an MA in History from Edinburgh University.
At THET, Ben leads an organisation that is pioneering a health partnership approach to the training of health workers across 30 countries in Africa and Asia. Health partnerships harness the skills of staff from the UK National Health Service in ways which bring mutual benefit to all involved, a vision of co-development that speaks to the new era of the Sustainable Development Goals.

ASIYA ODUGLEH-KOLEV

Technical Officer, Community and Social Interventions | WHO, Quality of Care Team

Asiya Odugleh-Kolev is technical officer, community & social interventions in the Quality of Care team within the Department of Integrated Health Services at WHO/HQ. Asiya has been collaborating with WHO Regional and Country Offices to advance a research and practice paradigm for community engagement as a transformative mechanism that can contribute to achieving high quality, people-centred and resilient health services. Her previous roles in WHO have focused on the social and relational dimensions of clinical care and public health programming and includes team leader, behavioural and social interventions in epidemic readiness and response. In this capacity, she supported WHO’s response to outbreaks of infectious diseases, as well as being a faculty member for training multi-disciplinary rapid response teams. Prior to joining WHO Asiya worked for UNICEF Somalia and local government services in the UK. Her background and professional training span: adult learning; anthropology; community development; journalism; nursing and public health.

LUCY OBOLENSKY

MRCGP MSc FBES FRGS | International Health Consultant (LSTM) | Associate Professor Global and Remote Healthcare University of Plymouth | Endeavour Medical Founder

Lucy is a portfolio career doctor specialising in remote and global medicine.

When in the UK, Lucy works clinically as an EM staff grade and a GP.

In her academic career Lucy is Associate Professor of Global Health and Remote Medicine at Plymouth University.

The rest of Lucy’s time is spent working overseas, either in a global health or expedition environment. Lucy completed her International Health Consultancy qualification with LSTM and works with governments and NGOs to achieve a holistic approach to health system strengthening, locally and globally. Lucy has worked as an expedition medic throughout her career, most recently with wildlife production companies. Lucy is the senior medical advisor for British Exploring and regularly teaches remote medicine courses at the Royal Geographic Society where she is a fellow.

Lucy has set up her own organisation, Endeavour Medical, which aims to unite a community of health professionals working in remote environments across the globe for the purposes of education, research and intersectoral collaboration.

MEGAN CHALLIS

Head of Strategic Partneships

PROF. DAVID PHILLIPS

Professor of Endocrine and Metabolic Programming at the University of Southampton

David Phillips is Professor of Endocrine and Metabolic Programming at the University of Southampton, UK. He is also an Honorary Consultant Physician in Endocrinology and Diabetes for the Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust. He trained at the University of Cambridge and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, and following junior hospital appointments was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship at the University of Southampton, where he completed a PhD thesis on the epidemiology of thyroid disease. This work subsequently took him to Zaïre, Central Africa, where he carried out a trial of iodine supplementation on behalf of the UK Charity, OXFAM.

On his return he was appointed Lecturer in Endocrinology at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff. He was appointed to his current position in 1991. In Southampton his research programme has centred on the developmental origins of type 2 diabetes, the metabolic syndrome and related conditions. The work has been funded by the Medical Research Council, The Wellcome Trust, The National Institutes of Health and several UK-based charities.

He has collaborated extensively with research groups in other universities both in the UK and abroad and holds professorial appointments at the University of Toronto, Canada, and The University of Adelaide, South Australia. In recent years he has developed an interest in the neglected non-communicable diseases prevalent in rural sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Ethiopia.

MADHUKAR BOSE

Deputy Head of Healthcare: Digital Health, Department for International Trade, UK Gov

At Healthcare UK (part of the Department for International Trade, Her Majesty's Government), Madhukar is responsible for the UK’s life sciences and healthcare trade effort in India as well as for Digital Health trade across all markets. This involves overseeing the strategy and delivery in a key market in a complex political environment following the EU referendum.

With over 15 years of experience in consulting and international exposure in Digital Health, technology enabled business transformation and technology services procurement, his experience is both broad and deep.

Madhukar's primary interest and expertise lies the strategic adoption of technology enabled Healthcare in the public and private sector as well as a global perspective on Healthcare markets. His current role as the lead for Digital Health within Healthcare UK has given me a fantastic view of the evolution of healthcare technology in the UK and the unique strengths which they can promote in overseas markets. He has also been at the heart of the organisation's efforts in promoting the UK's healthcare expertise in major emerging economies such as China, India and the Middle East.

Mr. Bose has worked on Digital health projects in the private sector such as a new telehealth solution for Novartis, an innovative customer portal for Pfizer nutrition and cloud infrastructure procurement for Roche as well as public sector such as a commissioning and good practice guide for Telehealth for the NHS, advising the UK's Department of Health on the national case for mobile working within community services and advising the UKTI on eHealth

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About THET

THET works to create a world where everyone, everywhere, has access to quality healthcare. We achieve this by training and educating health workers in low and middle income countries (LMICs) in partnership with volunteers from across the UK health community. Founded in 1988 by Professor Sir Eldryd Parry, we are the only UK Charity with this focus.

In the past 30 years, THET has evolved from a small family-run NGO to a larger entity, with staff in ten countries across Africa and Asia, and a range of projects spanning from community health to biomedical engineering. We work with governments, Ministries of Health, academics and clinicians to ensure THET is still driven by our founder’s original vision and principles: that our work should be responsive to national and local needs acknowledging the need for partnership and collaboration.

THE conference

the AGENDA

Thursday, 13 October 2022

9.00 - 9.05

Welcoming Remarks Dr. Tedros A. Ghebreyesus | Director General, WHO

9.05 - 9.10

Opening Remarks Ben Simms | CEO, THET

9.10 - 9.25

Keynote Address Dr. Richard Horton | Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet

9.25 - 9.40

Keynote Address Honorable Sylvia Masebo, MP, Minister of Health | Zambia

9.40 - 9.55

Keynote Address Gaunima Manandhar | Registered nurse in Nepal

9.55 - 10.15

Q&A

10.15 - 10.30

Coffee Break

BREAKOUT SESSION | THE PLANET Health and Climate Change: what can the global health community do?

10.30 - 11.15

Chair: Prof. Mala Rao OBE | Senior Clinical Fellow, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London

Speakers: Rachel McLean | Green Ward Programme Manager, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

10.30 - 11.15

BREAKOUT SESSION | THE SYSTEM SCALE

Chair: Prof. Andrew Leather | Professor of Global Health and Surgery at King’s College London

Speakers: Dr. JP Bagala | Team Lead, Uganda UK Health Alliance Tom Bashford | Clinical Research Fellow, NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma

IN CONVERSATION WITH

11.15 - 11.30

Speakers: Adebayo Alade | Radiology doctor in training, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust Paul Matthews | Advance Practice Radiographer, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

11.30 - 12.00

Coffee Break

DEEP DIVE ROUNDTABLE | THE WORKFORCE Wellbeing: Stigmatisation of healthcare workers

Chair: Dr. Sheba Gitta | Country Director Uganda, THET

12.00 - 13.00

13.15 - 13.35

Keynote Address Megan Challis | Head of Strategic Partnerships, Wellcome Trust

13.35 - 13.50

The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP | TBC

13.50 - 14.00

Concluding Remarks Roda Ali Ahmed | Lecturer, University of Hargeisa | THET Trustee

Friday, 14 October 2022

9.00 - 9.05

Welcoming Remarks Justin Ash | Chair of Trustees, THET

9.05 - 9.20

Keynote Address Tikhala Italye | Director, Global Movement Building Women in Global Health, Malawi

9.20 - 9.35

Keynote Address Sue Tranka | Chief Nursing Officer for Wales

9.35 - 9.50

Keynote Address Vanessa Carter | Patient Advocate for Antimicrobial Resistance

9.50 - 10.15

Q&A

10.15 - 10.30

Coffee Break

BREAKOUT SESSION | THE SYSTEM

10.30 - 11.15

Chair: Prof. David Phillips | Professor of Endocrine and Metabolic Programming at the University of Southampton

Speakers: To be confirmed

BREAKOUT SESSION | THE PLANET

Chair: Ciaran Barbour | Digital Engagement Officer, THET

10.30 - 11.15

Speakers: Emily McMullen | Senior Programme Manager, HEE Madhukar Bose | Deputy Head of Healthcare: Digital Health, Department for International Trade Isabela Borges Clara Rodrigues Alves de Oliveira

BREAKOUT SESSION: THE WORKFORCE Showcasing diaspora health workers’ global health activity

Chair: Prof. Kelechi Nnoaham | Chair of Wales and Africa Health Links Network

10.30 - 11.15

IN CONVERSATION WITH

11.15 - 11:30

Speakers: To be confirmed

11:30 - 12.00

Coffee Break

12.00 - 12:10

HEAL Campaign Prof. Marion Lynch | Global Health Consultant and nominated Gates Foundation Goalkeeper 2022 HEAL Campaign

DEEP DIVE ROUNDTABLE

12:10 - 13.00

Chair: Ben Simms | CEO, THET

Panellists: Dr. Shams Syed | Unit Head Quality of Care, WHO headquarters Evelyn Brealey | Director of Cambridge Global Health Partnerships Hamdi Issa | Ministry of Health and Development | Somaliland Muleba Matafwali | Country Director Zambia, THET

IN CONVERSATION WITH

13.00 - 13.15

Speakers: To be confirmed

13.15 - 13:30

Closing Remarks The Lord Crisp KCB | Co-Chair of the APPG Global Health and Independent Crossbench Member

13:30 - 14.00

Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Tedros A. Ghebreyesus | Director General, WHO

Opening Remarks
Ben Simms | CEO, THET

Keynote Address
Dr. Richard Horton | Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet

Keynote Address
Honorable Sylvia Masebo, MP, Minister of Health | Zambia

Keynote Address
Gaunima Manandhar | Registered nurse in Nepal

BREAKOUT SESSION | THE PLANET
Health and Climate Change: what can the global health community do?

Chair:
Prof. Mala Rao OBE | Senior Clinical Fellow, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London

Speakers:
Rachel McLean | Green Ward Programme Manager, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

BREAKOUT SESSION | THE SYSTEM
SCALE

Chair:
Prof. Andrew Leather | Professor of Global Health and Surgery at King’s College London

Speakers:
Dr. JP Bagala | Team Lead, Uganda UK Health Alliance

Tom Bashford | Clinical Research Fellow, NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma

Speakers:
Adebayo Alade | Radiology doctor in training, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Paul Matthews | Advance Practice Radiographer, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

DEEP DIVE ROUNDTABLE | THE WORKFORCE
Wellbeing: Stigmatisation of healthcare workers

Chair:
Dr. Sheba Gitta | Country Director Uganda, THET

Keynote Address
Megan Challis | Head of Strategic Partnerships, Wellcome Trust

Concluding Remarks
Roda Ali Ahmed | Lecturer, University of Hargeisa | THET Trustee

Welcoming Remarks
Justin Ash | Chair of Trustees, THET

Keynote Address
Tikhala Italye | Director, Global Movement Building Women in Global Health, Malawi

Keynote Address
Sue Tranka | Chief Nursing Officer for Wales

Keynote Address
Vanessa Carter | Patient Advocate for Antimicrobial Resistance

Chair:
Prof. David Phillips | Professor of Endocrine and Metabolic Programming at the University of Southampton

Speakers:
To be confirmed

Chair:
Ciaran Barbour | Digital Engagement Officer, THET

Speakers:
Emily McMullen | Senior Programme Manager, HEE

Madhukar Bose | Deputy Head of Healthcare: Digital Health, Department for International Trade

Isabela Borges

Clara Rodrigues Alves de Oliveira

BREAKOUT SESSION: THE WORKFORCE
Showcasing diaspora health workers’ global health activity

Chair:
Prof. Kelechi Nnoaham | Chair of Wales and Africa Health Links Network

Speakers:
To be confirmed

HEAL Campaign
Prof. Marion Lynch | Global Health Consultant and nominated Gates Foundation Goalkeeper 2022 HEAL Campaign

Chair:
Ben Simms | CEO, THET

Panellists:
Dr. Shams Syed | Unit Head Quality of Care, WHO headquarters

Evelyn Brealey | Director of Cambridge Global Health Partnerships

Hamdi Issa | Ministry of Health and Development | Somaliland

Muleba Matafwali | Country Director Zambia, THET

Speakers:
To be confirmed

Closing Remarks
The Lord Crisp KCB | Co-Chair of the APPG Global Health and Independent Crossbench Member

Facing the future
The Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | Crossbench member of the House of Lords.

THET's 2022 Annual Conference

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