Learnings from Global Health Partnerships in Practice

This event will bring together health partnerships across Wales and our international partners to share learning, strengthen connections, and highlight the collective impact of our global health work.

It will provide space to showcase Welsh partnerships’ achievements and innovations, support community strengthening across health links, and build relationships among health professionals, volunteers, and diaspora colleagues.

Learning objectives:

• Understand the value of global health partnerships
• Showcase Welsh partnerships’ achievements and innovations
• Explore models of shared investment and impact
• Strengthen networking across the Wales–LMIC ecosystem
• Support community strengthening across health links
• Learn from diaspora health professionals
• Identify practical strategies for partnership development.

Agenda

12:00 | Doors open for lunch and networking

12:30 | Welcome from Israa Mohammed, Chair of Global Health Partnerships Cymru

13:05 | Rapid Case Study Lightning Talks

• Theme: Educations, workforce, capacity strengthening, and community engagement
• Speakers:
  • Mental Health in Lesotho by Dr Ian Happs HEIW
  • Cardiff University-Palestinian Universities’ Partnership: Building collaborations for health and education by Dr Athanasios Hassoulas, Cardiff University
  • Community engagement and global refugee health by Mohammad Alhadjali, Cardiff University School of Medicine
  • Field epidemiology training in the Caribbean by Dr Mari Morgan, Public Health Wales
  • International Public Health Experience: Lessons from Mbale by Jana Zitha, Public Health Wales
  • Sudan: Diaspora leadership, community mobilisation and global solidarity by Dr Eva Khair

13:55 | Break

14:05 | From mutual benefit to mutual obligation by Ben Simms, Global Health Partnerships

14:20 | Rapid Case Study Lightning Talks

• Theme: Health systems and clinical partnerships
• Speakers:
  • Developing standard operating procedures for preventing infection in Somalia by Amanda Daniel, Public Health Wales and Global Health Partnerships Cymru
  • Burns and Plastics Collaboration: Wales and Zimbabwe by Louise Scannell, Swansea Bay University Health Board
  • Help is on the way – The Kargi Medical Camp story by Thoko Owino
  • Wales-Malawi Antimicrobial Pharmacy Partnership – scalable approach to antimicrobial stewardship by Ceri Phillips, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
  • Benefits of Philippines Nurses to Wales by Regina Reyes, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
  • Is Disability part of our humanity or a tragedy that we need to accommodate? by Paul Lindoewood, Share our Story
  • Equitable partnerships and bilateral learning: A case study from Wales Lesotho Linking by Cath Moulogo, Dolen Cymru

15:10 | Welsh Health Impact Assessment and Equitable International Partnerships by Prof. Liz Green, Laura Holt and Zuwaira Hashim, Public Health Wales

15:25 | Break

16:10 | Panel Discussion and interactive workshop

16:50 | Closing remarks by Julian Rosser, Head of Hub Cymru Africa

17:00 | End