Team

Lucy has been with MedicineAfrica since 2013. She supports health partnerships in the Palestinian West Bank, Iraq and other fragile states as well as supporting the SPHEIR programme.

Joyce oversees the financial systems and reporting across two SPHEIR projects at KCL: Prepared for Practice in Somaliland, and PADILEIA supporting Syrian refugees. She brings a background of extensive project and financial management working with projects in Pakistan, Bangladesh, DRC and South Sudan.

Max manages one of the UK’s longest-running health partnerships which brings together leading UK and Somaliland experts and institutions to strengthen Somaliland’s health system.  A core part of his role is delivering the Prepared for Practice project which seeks to address Somaliland’s health workforce crisis by reforming health education, putting practice-orientated learning, teaching and assessment at its centre. By completion, it is estimated that the project will have trained and examined more medical students than the current number of doctors practising in Somaliland.

Clinical Coordinators are responsible for organizing the clinical teaching of students and have day-to-day management authority for the clinical supervisors and interns.

Ÿ Abdirahman oversees systems that monitor students’ progress to ensure students achieve clinical competence, he also oversees the work of Clinical Supervisors. He is responsible for helping to ensure the success of the Undergraduate Learning and Assessment Workstream activities that are part of the Prepared for Practice project

Clinical Coordinators are responsible for organizing the clinical teaching of students and have day-to-day management authority for the clinical supervisors and interns.

Ÿ Jinaw oversees systems that monitor students’ progress to ensure students achieve clinical competence, she also oversees the work of Clinical Supervisors. She is responsible for helping to ensure the success of the Undergraduate Learning and Assessment Workstream activities that are part of the Prepared for Practice project

Clinical Coordinators are responsible for organizing the clinical teaching of students and have day-to-day management authority for the clinical supervisors and interns.

Ÿ Yasmin oversees systems that monitor students’ progress to ensure students achieve clinical competence, she also oversees the work of Clinical Supervisors. She is responsible for helping to ensure the success of the Undergraduate Learning and Assessment Workstream activities that are part of the Prepared for Practice project

Daniel designs and manages the all-important data collection across the Prepared for Practice project, so that the project can adapt and respond to stakeholders and report on progress to donors. He brings a background of research, programmatic and pedagogical experience combing a PhD from Edinburgh University, with management of MEL on projects in southern Africa.

Cathy leads the King’s Somaliland Partnership with a focus on the ‘Prepared for Practice’ project within the SPHEIR programme. She also has a role in developing research and policy strategy for KSP and public health inputs across the Centre’s Health Partnerships.

She is a public health doctor with experience in public health policy, strategy, and systems management. She also has a background in health advocacy, communications and media gained from several years working in health journalism.

Hannah coordinates the delivery of the Prepared for Practice Programme. She has an MA in Conflict, Security and Development and has worked with an NGO in the Palestinian West Bank, as well on development and relief projects with refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.