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Global Health Careers Virtual Event

Global Health Careers Virtual Event

Thursday 27 May 2021, 4-5:30pm (BST).

Join us at our virtual careers event to learn more from a team of renowned global health professionals as they discuss their careers.

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About this webinar

What is Global Health, and what is its role in a fast-changing public and international health landscape? What do global health professionals actually do? Are you interested in a career geared towards addressing health inequalities globally?

Join us at our virtual careers event to learn more from a team of renowned global health professionals as they discuss their phenomenal career trajectories. Speakers include:

  • Prof Gail Davey, OBE, Professor of Global Health Epidemiology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School
  • Dr Sarah Morgan, Senior Public Health Specialty Registrar, Barts Health NHS trust and South London Health Protection Team
  • Pamela Steele, Logistics & Supply Chain Management specialist

Our experts will talk about what a career in global health has meant for them, their specific work interests, and can answer any questions you might have about getting started in this challenging and rewarding field. Course Leader Dr Anne Gatuguta and Lecturer in Global Health Dr Sarah Marshall will be on hand to help with any course queries.

Please note: Zoom joining information will be sent out closer to the time. 

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Professor Gail Davey is a medical epidemiologist specialising in skin-related Neglected Tropical Diseases. Following training in epidemiology at Master and doctoral level at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Gail moved to Ethiopia to work with national colleagues in the School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University. Over nine years in Addis Ababa, she supervised more than 40 Master theses and helped develop a PhD Public Health program. Initially, Gail took forward research into asthma aetiology, but in 2005, she initiated a multidisciplinary program of research into podoconiosis (non-filarial endemic elephantiasis). The programme has covered distribution, aetiology (genetic, mineralogical and biochemical), consequences (economic, social and ethical), management of disease (diagnosis, clinical staging, treatment and health systems). To date, over 80 research articles and 10 reviews and book chapters have arisen from this program. In 2010, Gail returned to the UK on a Wellcome Trust University Award to expand podoconiosis research within Ethiopia and into other endemic countries.

In parallel with this research, Gail has worked to raise the local and international profile of podoconiosis, advocating for inclusion in the WHO list of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs); ensuring podoconiosis was among the eight NTDs prioritised by the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health; guiding the foundation of the Ethiopian National Podoconiosis Action Network (NaPAN); and establishing Footwork, the International Podoconiosis Initiative. This is summarized in a Profile published in the Lancet in March 2012.

In 2020, Gail was awarded an OBE for Services to Neglected Tropical Diseases in the (delayed) Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Dr Sarah Morgan is a Senior Public Health Specialty Registrar, currently working with Barts Health NHS trust and South London Health Protections teams in London. She has over 15 years experience working for international NGOs in global health, specialising in improving child health and nutrition at a community level. Her work has seen her implement programmes across varied contexts including Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Sierra Leone. In 2018/2019, she spent a year setting up a rural health centre quality improvement programme across Malawi. Sarah is a member of the executive committee for the Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine and a founding board member of the global health charity Kids of Malawi UK. In the UK her work with NHS England and Public Health England has seen her tackle inequalities and low uptake of vaccines across London and outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases closer to home.

Pamela Steele has over 25 years’ experience in the field of Logistics & Supply Chain Management, including strategic and operational supply chain management in support of health and humanitarian programmes. She is currently the supply chain transformation director for Pamela Steele Associated Ltd (PSA), whose clients include UN agencies, INGOs and donor organisations. Previously she worked for UNICEF in Copenhagen as a Supply Chain Specialist focusing on programme and supply integration, and capacity development until 2011.

For over 25 years, her career has focused on Logistics & Supply Chain Management in the humanitarian and development sectors both at headquarters and at the field level in low-income countries. She has worked for UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) as a supply chain specialist and capacity building; UNFPA (United Nation’s Population Fund) as the Humanitarian Logistics Specialist and before that for Oxfam Great Britain in various positions as the Deputy Head of Logistics & Supply. Other previous employers include the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and World Vision International.

She has a keen interest in mainstreaming gender and co-founded WISE, the Women’s Initiative for Supply Chain Excellence, to promote gender issues in the humanitarian supply chain community.