Trustee & Joint Lead for Global EM fellowships

Andy leads the Global EM Fellowship program for both medical and non-medical clinicians, and is a consultant in EM and PHEM at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Great Western Air Ambulance. He is a long-standing member of UK Med’s Emergency Medical Team, deploying as part of the UK’s aid response. He has worked clinically and on educational projects in South Africa, Ghana, Zanzibar and Malawi, also deploying with the UKEMT to Bangladesh in 2017/18. He has a passion for gaining broader interest and engagement in UK Emergency medicine for a global view of emergency care, and supporting clinicians to maintain careers in Global EM.

Trustee & Joint Lead for Global EM fellowships

Chris leads the Global EM fellowship program for both medical and non-medical clinicians. He first became interested in Global Health as a medical student when undertaking his elective in Soweto, Johannesburg. After foundation training he returned to South Africa to work in a rural hospital in KwaZuluNatal before starting his emergency medicine training. He stepped out of training to complete an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health after which he began work for Medecins Sans Frontieres and the International Committee of the Red Cross. During several years with these organisations he worked in South Sudan, Gaza, Egypt, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of Congo before returning to the UK full-time as and EM/PHEM clinician.

Trustee & Lead for Community partnerships

Lucy previously co-founded Future Health Africa in 2010 and works as a primary care and Emergency medicine clinician. She became involved in medical work in Kenya prior to starting her medical degree at Bristol university. Lucy met the community nurse, Agnes, at Lewa wildlife conservancy and helped her to develop the clinic there. During medical school she organised groups to raise money for a laboratory and public health based projects.

After completing foundation training as a doctor Lucy spent six months working in the clinic and completing her diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene.

In 2009, Lucy developed the first Kenya Orthopaedic Project (KOP). This grew from strength to strength with other projects evolving organically through this. Lucy then developed Team Talk in 2011, a community based project aimed at improving the livelihoods of women and girls in Kenya. Lucy now focuses more on her community projects, working with Lewa Wildlife conservancy and Northern Rangelands Trust developing health care facilities in the Northern Territories. She also runs Endeavour medical, providing high quality medical education related to Leadership, Expedition medicine and Global Health.

Ag Chief Officer Health, County Government of Laikipia

Dr Panga supported the creation tof the Global Emergency Care Fellowships, and the development of the original Bristol Nanyuki Partnership. He now works within the Laikipia government with a passion for developing better healthcare for the local community.

Treasurer

Luke is a Chartered accountant and has spent the majority of his financial career in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. Luke joined the charity in July 2022.

In his spare time, Luke loves cycling, hiking and spending time with his family.

Imara (meaning ‘strong’ in Swahili) is a junior doctor with a passion for global health and emergency medicine. At medical school, she completed a MSc in Nutrition for Global Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with a focus on child and maternal undernutrition. Post foundation training, she was a Global Emergency Medicine fellow at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, spending two months in Nanyuki, Kenya. She has since been back to North-Eastern Kenya to scope health needs in remote communities alongside the Northern Rangelands Trust, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Dharura and the Government of Kenya, and is now organising volunteer opportunities in these areas.

Lead for Simulation & Education; Lead for Information Governance

Claire had an active interest in Global Health and humanitarianism since medical school. After foundation training she completed a tropical medicine diploma in Belgium and after a few more years clinical experience working in New Zealand and the UK, started working with Medicine Sans Frontières. After her first two projects in Uganda and South Sudan, she returned to the UK to complete ACCS EM training in London. She returned to MSF, working in Ethiopia, Yemen and Sierra Leone while working in emergency medicine between projects. She spent two years working in Barcelona in an MSF headquarters position within the MSF Field Simulation Team. This work involved field support in Nigeria and supporting teams remotely in a number of projects including Cameroon and Syria to help implement simulation as a training and quality improvement tool within the organisation. She is back in the UK as a senior clinical fellow in emergency medicine and global health.

Nursing Lead

Having grown up in Italy, before moving to work in Bristol, Sara splits her time between working as a senior emergency department nurse and in her role as a practice development lead, supporting ED nursing staff in their progression through teaching and mentorship. She has a passion for Global Health, and as well as being the first ever Dharura global nursing fellow to pilot the scheme, she has had continued involvement in nursing training in Kenya. She supports Dharura nursing fellows and works to develop sustainable clinically focussed roles for nurses in Global Health.