1. Imperial - UCT
Global Health Fellows Programme
AIM
This summer school is designed to prepare students for succeeding in top-flight, international
collaborative research. The course consists of a series of challenging group activities and Global
Health insights. The topics covered include:
• Working creatively and effectively in teams
• Improving communication in diverse groups
• Developing intercultural and international awareness
• Succeeding in collaborative research projects
• Developing awareness of Global Health research

2. Global Health Fellows Programme
COURSE TIMETABLE 2015
Welcome and Introductions
Monday 26th January
Time Activity
15.30 Main Room • Welcome by UK High Commission / Science and
Innovation Network
16.00
17.00
Main Room • Welcome by Prof Gregory Hussey (UCT)
• Professor Valerie Mizrahi (UCT)
“Global Health networks and networking”
• Plenary 1 - Welcome and Introductions:
Introduction to tutor team
17.15
17.50
Group Room • Meet your group:
Opportunity to get to know your group and exam
expectations
• Institutions, Research and Career Paths:
Student led activity to raise awareness of research
structure in different institutions e.g. Gambia, Nigeria South
Africa and UK
18.40 Main Room • Presentations: Institutions and Career Paths
Each team will present on one of their Institutions.
19.00 • Evening Networking Event

3. The Initial Stages of Collaboration
Tuesday 27th January
Time Venue Activity
9.00
9.10
Main Room
Outside
/ Group
room
• Day introduction
• “Neutraliser” (group dynamics & communication)
& Activity review
Team activity to highlight team working and resource
management
10.30 Break
10.45 Main Room • Plenary 2 – Creativity and Problem Solving
Highlighting creativity techniques and generating creative
solutions to Global Health Problems
11.45
12.25
Outside
Group
Room
• “Sheep and shepherd” (planning and communication)
Team activity highlighting communication and strategy.
Activity review : roles within tasks
13.00 Lunch
13.45 Group
Room
• Individual Research Planning SWOT analysis:
Review of current research project
14.45 Main room • Plenary 3 Research Planning and Project Management
15.45 Main Room Break
16.00 Main Room • Dr Hanif Esmail (Oxford/Imperial/UCT)
“Developing a successful joint Imperial/UCT PhD from
application to completion”
17.00 Group
room
• Day review: Individuals review learning from the day
17.30 End of Day

4. Working with Others: Collaborative Opportunities
Wednesday 28th January
Time Venue Activity
9.00
9.10
Main Room • Day introduction
• Plenary 4 - Presentation Impact
Examining techniques for getting your message across
10.15 Break
10.30 Group Room • Intra-group Knowledge
Individuals present on one aspect of their research to team.
Team selects presentation to present to course
12.30 Main Room • Presentations to Course cohort
13.00 Lunch
13.45 Group Room • Introduction to collaborative poster activity
Creation of posters: Individuals create a conference
poster on their current research to display at end of day.
15.45 Break
16.00 Main Room • Prof R J Wilkinson (UCT)
“Global Health remit and scope: addressing the
inequalities in health”
17.00 • Poster display and collaborative team submissions
Participants review posters and form groups to collaborate on a
new project based upon their research
18.00 End of day

5. Collaboration Development
Thursday 29th January
Time Venue Activity
9.00
9.10
Main Room
Main Room
• Day introduction
• Professor Tumani Corrah (MRC Gambia)
“Global Health and Collaborations”
10.30 Break
10.45 Outside • “Marble run” and Review
11.45 Main Room • Plenary – Group dynamics, team roles and Negotiation
12.30 Lunch
13.15 Main Room • Announcement of Collaborative Teams and Project
development time
Teams brainstorm ideas for a new project and then develop
this idea into a project proposal.
16.15 Group Room • Awareness, Feedback and Day Review:
examining the importance of feedback, it’s role in
development and how to give feedback
17.30 End of day
19.00 Evening: course dinner

6. Presentation, Capture and Review
Friday 30th January
Time Venue Activity
9.00
9.10
9.40
Main Room • Day Introduction
• Submission viewing
Proposal posters displayed for review
• Regional Heats with Q&A
Proposal teams present research idea and a regional
winner is selected
10.20 Break
10.35 • Guest Panel: • Prof T. Corrah (MRC Gambia), Prof R J
Wilkinson (UCT), Dr H Esmail (Oxford/Imperial/UCT),
Prof K Maitland and Prof T Douglas
Global Health: Themes, trends and opportunities
- With Q and A
11.35 Main Room • Final presentations - judged by panel
12.40 • Photos
13.00 Lunch
13.45 Group Room • Personal Review and Peer Feedback
Individuals review areas for development and receive
feedback from their peers.
15.00 Group Room • Review of individual action plans
16.00
17.00
• Professor Kathryn Maitland (Imperial/KEMRI)
“My Life in Global Health”
Course Ends

7. Tutor Team
Paul Langford - Professor, Paediatrics, Imperial College London. Paul graduated from UWIST (Cardiff)
with a degree in BSc Applied Biology and a PhD from the University of Aston (Birmingham) investigating
alternatives to animal experimentation. After a gratuitous fun year in Australia he did postdocs in the
Departments of Chemistry/Microbiology at The University of Bristol and The Department of Paediatrics,
University of Oxford. Subsequently he was appointed a Lecturer in The Department of Paediatrics at
Imperial College and through subsequent promotions became a Professor. His research interests include
the diagnosis of tuberculosis and the development of vaccines for bacterial meningitis and respiratory
diseases of pigs. He has supervised many PhD students and has been involved with research skills
development training for many years. Non-work interests include mountain walking, playing cricket and
Luton Town football club.
Peter Norsworthy – Wellcome Trust Global Health Research Centre Manager and senior programmer
manager for HIV clinical trials, Imperial College London. Peter graduated from King’s College London
with a BSc (Hons) in Biotechnology and PhD in Biochemistry from Royal Post Graduate Medical School,
Hammersmith Hospital University of London. He did two postdocs at Imperial College looking at
complement, gene knockout and the pathogenesis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. During this time he
taught on a number of courses and he supervised the laboratory work of a number of MSc and B.Sc.
students before moving into laboratory management. He has since held a number of senior scientific
administrative roles within Imperial College and manages a number of research programmes both within
the UK and overseas. From this work he developed an interest in Global Health and has been involved in
the creation of the Global Health Centre at Imperial College. Non work interests include, hill walking,
fishing (ex-champion) and cricket.
Tolu Oni - Senior Lecturer, Division of Public Health Medicine, University of Cape Town (UCT). Tolu Oni
is a Physician, specialising in Public Health medicine, and Clinical Epidemiologist. She completed internal
and HIV medicine postgraduate clinical training in the UK and Australia, a Masters degree in Public
Health/Epidemiology at UCT, and a doctoral degree in the Clinical Epidemiology of HIV-associated TB in
Cape Town, awarded by Imperial College London. She holds fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation
"Next generation of African Academics" programme and the Wellcome-funded Clinical Infectious Disease
Research Initiative. Her area of interest is in urban population health transition and the epidemiology of the
interaction between HIV and TB, and emerging NCD epidemics in unplanned urban settings. She is a
Senior Lecturer within the School of Public Health at UCT; and as a member of the South African Young
Academy of Science (SAYAS) and SAYAS co-Chair 2014/15, aims to promote translation of science for
society and generation of evidence to inform public health policy.
Paul Seldon – Course director and Senior Teaching Fellow, Graduate School, Imperial College London.
Paul graduated from the University of Surrey with a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry, did a part-time Masters in
Immunology at King’s college London and a PhD in Pharmacology at Imperial College. He worked as a
research assistant in the Nuclear signalling Department at the Randal Institute, research associate in the
Biochemistry Department at Oxford and then as a research fellow in the Dermatology department at
Imperial College. While at Imperial College Paul has supported undergraduate teaching in medicine as a
lecturer, tutor and pastorally as a personal tutor. He has also assisted in the supervision of both PhD and
MD students. As a senior teaching fellow he is involved in tutoring, course development and creation of
Web resources for the Graduate School including courses on teaching and leadership. He is a Member of
the Institute of Leadership and Management, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and recently
completed a part-time Masters in Education looking at supervisor research motivations, passing with Merit.
His educational research interests include development of expertise, educational leadership and evolution
of communities of practice.

8. Guest Speakers
Professor Tumani Corrah is the MRC’s foundation Director of Africa Research Development and the first
Emeritus director of the MRC Gambia Unit. This new MRC post provides Tumani with the ideal platform
from which to work with partners to enhance research excellence by supporting talented researchers
working on significant research challenges in west, central and eastern Africa. Tumani’s new role plays to
his personal passion for growing a new generation of outstanding, African research leaders working in
Africa.
Tumani Corrah has over thirty years of progressively senior-level experience in a leading research
institution in Africa – the MRC Unit in The Gambia - rising to the position of Unit Director, a position he held
through many challenges for over ten years.
For three decades, Professor Corrah has retained active research interests in Tropical and Infectious
Diseases, including tuberculosis, HIV and malaria. He is medically qualified and holds a PhD from his
studies on Tuberculosis which included the ground-breaking science of the introduction of immunotherapy
as an adjunct treatment for tuberculosis in The Gambia.
An expert on research governance, he is a long-standing member of the Gambia Government/MRC Ethics
Committee, including 4 years as Chairman. He is a joint recipient of a Gold Medal awarded by the
International Medical Informatics Association.
Tumani Corrah continues to place his experience as scientist, MRC Unit director and his professional links
with governmental and non-governmental organisations globally at the service of African research
development.
Professor Tania Douglas was appointed as Deputy Dean for Research at the UCT's Faculty of Health
Sciences in June 2013. She completed degrees in electrical/electronic and biomedical engineering at the
University of Cape Town, Vanderbilt University in the USA and the University of Strathclyde in Scotland,
and conducted postdoctoral research in image processing at the Japan Broadcasting Corporation in
Tokyo. She also holds an executive MBA from UCT. She is a Fellow of the South African Academy of
Engineering and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She is the Director of the
MRC/UCT Medical Imaging Research Unit and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department
of Human Biology; in these capacities, she has been concerned with education and research that promote
the contextually appropriate use of technology to address public health challenges.
Dr. Hanif Esmail studied Medicine at the University of Cambridge and University College London and is
currently sub-specialising as an Infectious Diseases physician in Oxford. He was awarded a Wellcome
Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship through Imperial College London in 2010 but spent the
majority of this fellowship conducting research at the University of Cape Town. His research focused on
improving understanding of HIV-associated latent tuberculosis infection, specifically on the characterisation
of subclinical disease through the modalities of FDG-PET/CT imaging, transcriptomics and immunology.
He has recently successful defended his PhD thesis at Imperial College London and is involved in a
number of on-going studies at UCT.

9. Prof Gregory Hussey - Professor Gregory Hussey has a long and distinguished history with the Faculty
and is a leading academic with strong management background. He has several years experience at
Faculty Executive level, having served on the Deanery as Senior Research and Policy Advisor since 2013,
and as Deputy Dean for Research from 2009-2011. He has been leading the development of the Faculty’s
strategic plan, a project assigned to him for his visionary aptitude. As Deputy Dean for Research he
pioneered a number of interesting and innovative research activities, including the establishment of the
UCT Clinical Research Centre, which promotes an interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional approach to
support researchers. In addition, he founded the Cancer Research Initiative to promote interdisciplinary
research in the field of cancer. He was also the initiator of the project to promote early and mid career
fellows.
His innovative and visionary leadership qualities are further evident in his establishment of two research
groupings that have achieved global standing. He was the founding director of South Tuberculosis Vaccine
Initiative (2000-2009), and developed this into the leading TB vaccine clinical trial site internationally. He
was also the first director of the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (2006-2010), now
recognised as one of the foremost research groups on the African continent. His current Vaccines for
Africa Initiative (established in 2008) has established a significant footprint on the African continent and
focusses on translation of research evidence into health policy and practice. Through his vaccine advocacy
work he has made a major contribution in introducing new life saving vaccines into the national
immunization schedule such rotavirus, pneumococcal and human papilloma virus vaccines.
Gregory Hussey is globally recognized as a leader in the field of vaccinology and is one of the foremost
experts in this field on the African continent. His research has been highly translational in nature and has
influenced global public health policies. He has been a part-time World Health Organization consultant for
the past 20 years in the following sections: Expanded Program on Immunization, Division of Child Health
and Development, and Vaccine Research and Development and serves on a number of their influential
committees. He has received major grant funding for his research and related activities from international
agencies in excess of R500 million. He was recently elected as a Fellow of UCT and was awarded the
Platinum medal by the Medical Research Council of South Africa. This award is a lifetime achievement
award for an outstanding scientist who has raised the profile of South African science and helped build the
foundations of health research in the country for future
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Professor Kathryn Maitland - Professor Of Paediatric Tropical Infectious Diseases, Imperial College,
London. Honorary Member of the MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London. Lead Clinician Scientist KEMRI-
Wellcome Trust Programme, Kilifi, Kenya. Professor Maitland’s early research as a clinician scientist co-
managing a project of field-based longitudinal epidemiology studies on the Pacific islands of Vanuatu
(under Professor Sir David Weatherall) led to a number of novel observations regarding malaria parasite
species interactions and host protection by alpha thalassaemia. Over the past 15 years her research
group has highlighted the unique importance of emergency-care research as a highly-targeted and cost-
effective means of tackling childhood mortality in resource-limited sub-Saharan Africa, previously
neglected as an area for specific funder or policy investment. She undertakes high-quality physiological
studies and clinical trials, generating the essential evidence base for patient management and informing
both national and international policy. Her most notable work, as principal investigator, was the landmark
fluid resuscitation trial – the only controlled trial ever undertaken (FEAST trial), which demonstrated that
fluid boluses resulted in increased mortality in African children with severe febrile illness. Numerous
commentaries followed the publication of FEAST in NEJM in 2011 and it was widely praised for
demonstrating how rigorously clinical research can be performed in resource poor settings. FEAST has
been cited in subsequent meta-analysis and guideline reviews and led to policy changes in a number of
organisations including Medicines Sans Frontieres and many African countries.
To enable such translational research to occur, she has built up a network of African sites, investing in both
training and local capacity development, bringing sophisticated technologies and applying them in real-life
circumstances to study common and important diseases of Africa (severe malaria, sepsis, severe
malnutrition, pneumonia and life threatening anaemia). She has established collaborations across Africa,

10. within Europe, South East Asia and Australia. In 2012 and 2013 her group received two large clinical trial
grant awards investigating transfusion and other treatment strategies in 3900 African children with severe
life-threatening anaemia (TRACT; ISRCTN 84086586 ) and oxygenation strategies in 4800 severely ill
African children (COAST) with pneumonia. Both of these will lead to major guideline changes. Her
international standing has enabled her to obtain industry backing, including the donation of fluids, drugs
and oxygenation systems to support her trials. She hopes to be a role model for females in academic
medicine – in the specialities of critical care and clinician scientist in global health- two areas where there
is currently a dearth of female leaders.
Professor Valerie Mizrahi is director of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and a
Professor in the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She
also directs the MRC/NHLS/UCT Molecular Mycobacteriology Research Unit and heads the UCT node of
the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research. She was an International Research
Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) from 2000-2010, and currently, is a Senior
International Research Scholar of the HHMI. Her research focuses on the physiology and metabolism of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis of relevance to TB drug resistance and drug discovery. She is a Fellow of the
American Academy of Microbiology, and Royal Society of South Africa, an Associate Fellow of The World
Academy of Sciences, and a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Her major awards
include the 2013 Christophe Mérieux Prize from the Mérieux Foundation and Institut de France, the Order
of the Mapungubwe (Silver, 2007) from the State President of South Africa, the 2006 Gold Medal of the SA
Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the 2000 Unesco-L’Oréal For Women in Science
Award (Africa & Middle East). She currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of K-RITH, Innovative
Medicines for TB (EPFL, Lausanne), and the Discovery Expert Group of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation and has served on the Advisory Boards of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (New
York) and the ICGEB (Trieste). She has published more than 120 papers in the fields of organic chemistry,
biochemistry and molecular mycobacteriology and has trained 50 postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate
students.
Professor Robert J Wilkinson - Professor Robert J Wilkinson MA PhD BM BCh DTM&H FRCP is a
Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Director of the University of Cape Town
Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative. He is also Professor in Infectious Diseases at Imperial
College London, and MRC Programme Leader at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill,
London. Wilkinson trained in Cambridge, Oxford, London, Edinburgh, Sudan and the United States. His
major research interest is the Immunology of tuberculosis, particularly in the context of HIV infection.
Wilkinson is an author of the Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine and has published a number of
original research and review articles on tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.