Vasco da Gama Movement Pre-conference

Prior to joining NHS England as Deputy Medical Director of Primary Care, she was Chief Clinical Officer of NHS Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

Nikki has held a range of positions within healthcare to support the development of innovative models of care, highly engaged clinical, patient and public leadership and is passionate about supporting primary care, improving service provision and population wellbeing.

She is a member of The King's Fund General Advisory Council and holds a MSc in health care commissioning. With her sister she co-founded STEMMsisters, a social enterprise supporting young people to study science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine. She has two young children.

I have unpaid roles as

RCGP national representative for Sustainability, Climate Change and Green Issues since 2017

Co-Chair RCGP Climate Emergency Advisory Group since 2020

Executive member of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change since 2017

Lead for Green Impact for Health RCGP/NUS/SOS Toolkit since 2014

Dr Luke Allen is a primary health care advisor to the WHO and World Bank. He completed his family medicine training in Oxford and continues to work as a part-time GP in the city. He holds a clinical research fellowship at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; sits on the RCGP Thames Valley Faculty board; and is a board member at the British Journal of General Practice. He led on many of the supporting documents for the Declaration of Astana and has worked closely with senior health system leaders across low- middle- and high-income countries. Luke was chosen to co-lead the writing of the G7 initiative on primary health care. 

Luke trained in medicine and international health at Bristol and completed his MPH in Global Health at Harvard. He has a postgraduate teaching certificate and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has over 50 publications in the field of global health with research centring on primary care reform and the politics of population-level prevention for non-communicable diseases. He is the international lead for the Faculty of Public Health special interest group on integrating public health and primary care. He has spoken at two UN General Assembly health side events, and his work has been featured across multiple international media platforms including BBC News, the New Scientist, China Global TV, and the Wall Street Journal.

Email: drlukallen@gmail.com
Website: https://drlukeallen.mystrikingly.com
Twitter: @drlukeallen

Seeded by his time in the RCGP JIC, he has a background in global health primary care and this has led him to develop projects that address the inequalities faced by the diverse communities of his local area. He founded the Lambeth Portuguese Wellbeing Partnership in 2015, a network of over 100 individuals and organisations, together developing new ways of empowering a marginalised community. This has evolved into a not-for-profit social organisation leading on projects such as a Covid Aid response and working with households to improve health and wellbeing capacity.

His practice is part of the Lambeth Food Cooperative where patients and staff come together to grow vegetables on site. At PCN level he is now building on this experience to help try re-imagine the relationship between GP surgeries and local community at a place based level. He is the co-founder of Thriving Stockwell – a template for a new way of working between community and primary care that hopes to influence the wider healthcare discussion. In 2017 he was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Primary Care Award by colleagues in NHS Lambeth and in 2021 was honoured to receive the WONCA Europe 5 Star Award.

She helped write the motion on Declaring a Climate Emergency for the RCGP which was then accepted, and chaired a Task and Finish group on Sustainable Events for the RCGP. She is Clinical Sustainability Lead for South Yorkshire ICS.  She has overseen the launching of around 18 Greener Practice local groups across the country and currently chairs both the National Greener Practice group and the local South Yorkshire group.

He is a trainee representative on the Irish College of General Practitioners global health special interest group and a member of Irish Doctors for the Environment. He has a special interest in medical education. To this end he was recently awarded an MSc by research at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland that explored the barriers and facilitators to the integration of planetary health topics in undergraduate medical curriculum.

He developed a passion for clinical leadership through undertaking roles such as Junior Doctor Mess President at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, and Oxford Clinical School President, and through completing leadership qualifications with the University of Cambridge, Institute of Leadership and Management, and the NHS Leadership Academy. He has used these as a platform to lead projects in areas such as patient safety, workforce development, and service improvement, presenting work both nationally and internationally. More recently, in his role as Leadership Fellow with Health Education East of England, he has co-led the development of The Leadership Ladder; a junior doctor-specific leadership development platform, which now forms the core offer for leadership development for all 5000 trainees in the East of England.

As a future GP, Liam’s desire is to take a step back from his consulting room, and consider how we can improve the health and wellbeing of all patients; locally, regionally, and nationally. In his current fellowship role with the National Primary Care Team at NHSE/I, he is focussing specifically on his two key passions: the role that Primary Care plays in reducing health inequalities, and shaping the vision for the future of Primary Care.

I grew up in Essex and started my career in healthcare as a receptionist near my hometown in a place called Jaywick. I have a passion for improving health inequalities and I am at my happiest when I am buried in a spreadsheet. I run a clinic in our local homeless day centre in Keighly and we are currently in the process of expanding to a number of other locations including initiating a clinic for our refugee population. I joined the Trailblazer fellowship scheme in 2021 and it has been immensely rewarding.

During her free time, she likes to spend time in nature, jogging early in the morning or spending time with books, at the theatre or listening to music.

She went to Cambridge University to study Medicine and returned to Birmingham for Foundation and academic GP training. She is interested in Diabetes and Lifestyle Medicine. Engaging patients is a slow and sometimes frustrating process but can be rewarding. She has set up webinar and in person education sessions and is looking at improving the diabetic annual review process with a focus on group consultations.

He has been a member of the RCGP’s curriculum development group for a chapter on Population and Planetary health. He is an adviser to the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, and a director of South Yorkshire Climate Alliance. Earlier in life he was a part time GP partner, and a trainer. course organiser and Associate postgraduate dean for GP in Yorkshire. Before retiring he enjoyed 4 years as a member of the RCGP's workplace based assessment development group. He has worked for Medicins Sans Frontieres and continues to be involved in MSF's clinical and organisational governance.

She has progressed Education for Sustainable Healthcare, most recently leading the development of an Association for Medical Education in Europe consensus statement. Previous roles include NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Yorkshire, Co-Director of the Sustainable Healthcare Education Network, Coordinator of the UK Climate and Health Alliance, Medical Activities Manager for MSF in DRC, Lead Postgraduate Faculty for Doctors Worldwide in Bangladesh, and telemedicine doctor supporting Bangladeshi colleagues for MedGlobal.

He works with NHS Tayside Sustainability Group, Greener Practice Tayside & Fife, and teaches at The University of Dundee Medical School on environmental issues.

Ben has an MA in Education, Health Promotion and International Development, and has 15 years’ experience of working in fundraising, programme management and senior leadership roles in international development charities working in Sub-Saharan Africa.

She developed an interest in Global Health following a medical school elective in Tanzania, and has worked in Zambia with On Call Africa on 2 occasions in the last couple of years, as well as continuing to provide support to Zambian Rural Health Centres from the UK via The Virtual Doctors.

In her work she looks for different ways in which we can resist inequalities in health, utilising participatory methods, collective action, and our seemingly banal everyday actions.

She is passionate in advocating for a better access to health care and improving human rights for LGBTQI people. She is the winner of RCGP Inspire Award 2019 and Pink News Frontline Hero 2020.

She is doubly qualified in both primary care and psychiatry and worked for over twenty years as an academic at UCL in combination with her work in general practice. Her academic work involved setting up a community mental health course for medical students based in local general practices and both qualitative and quantitative research projects predominantly in the field of primary care mental health.

Her main research interests were in the management of common mental disorders such as anxiety and depression, physically unexplained symptoms and the interface between physical and mental health presentations. Most recently she has been involved in two qualitative studies investigating stress, anxiety and depression in general practitioners and junior hospital doctors, which will form the basis of her workshop at this conference.

I split my time between London and northern Uganda, for both clinical and academic commitments. I am currently a PhD Candidate at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and my research aims to explore ‘pandemic preparedness’ amongst refugees in Northern Uganda, during times COVID-19. I am also a current member of the Junior International Committee of the RCGP, in the Beyond Europe team.

He leads coproduction work with people with lived experience of health exclusion and immigration in the UK, alongside coordinating policy programmes including the Safe Surgeries Initiative to ensure inclusive access to healthcare for asylum seekers, refugees and marginalised migrant groups. His PhD focused on formulation of asylum policy, and he contributed to several publications on migrant health. Yusuf also campaigns to improve UK asylum and immigration system through his lived experience.

This work has been mostly within healthcare settings and some in mentorship programmes. The current GP practice where I work has a patient list size of about 9,500 patients. The population is relatively young, from diverse ethnic, low-income backgrounds and includes many vulnerable migrant groups. Our catchment area also includes many of the home office accommodation arranged for asylum seekers newly arrived in the UK. In addition to my salaried GP role, I am a clinician volunteer with Doctors of the World in their London clinic. My aims with the workshop are to discuss the experiences I have encountered working with diverse and vulnerable migrant groups in the UK. Specifically looking at migration as determinant of health and the challenges that exist in the provision of primary healthcare for migrant populations (a GP’s perspective).

She has worked with doctors of the world, docs not cops, medact migrant solidarity group and community action for refugees and asylum seekers. She is interested in migration and health, the social and political determinants of health, mental health and activism within healthcare.

She is a Training Programme Director for Health Education England, working both on the Crawley and East Surrey GP training scheme, as well as holding a central role within Kent, Surrey and Sussex, looking at addressing differential attainment for GP trainees who graduated overseas.

She is a former member of the RCGP Junior International Committee, and has previously been on an Erasmus exchange to Germany. She also works at a medical school, as well as writing mock MRCGP examination questions for an online question bank. She has previously volunteered as a medical educator on the Thai-Myanmar border. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her toddler, as well as running, swimming and ballet.

Emily is a final year GP trainee based in Exeter, UK. She is an Academic Clinical Fellow in general practice at the University of Exeter and is dual training in clinical and academic medicine.

Her research interests include infection and antimicrobial resistance in primary care, both in the UK and globally. Emily was awarded a Global Health Fellowship as part of her GP training (although the pandemic disrupted her planned work abroad). She holds the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes. She has previous experience working in Cambodia, Nepal, India and Uganda. Outside of medicine, Emily enjoys triathlon, hiking and exploring the world.

She is a research fellow at Leicester Diabetes Research Centre, in the field of patient education and lifestyle change in cardiometabolic disease. She leads an educational community of practice for social prescribing link workers across Nottinghamshire. She is also passionate about our global medical community, having worked and volunteered in Kenya, Peru, Belize and China.

I have 20 years of working experience within general practice as a Health Care Assistant. I am passionate about equality and supporting social change that drives equality. I enjoy family time, and travelling to new places.

Previously I did various customer facing roles and then, whilst raising my children, I was involved in many volunteering positions and parent support groups: social prescribing before I even knew that such a role existed! When I decided to get back in to paid employment a friend suggested I look in to the role and I subsequently applied and got the job with NCGPA. I love that I can transfer so many of the skills developed during my time raising my kids, as well as from my previous employment, to empower people within my community. I have been able to connect with so many fantastic grassroots organisations that do such great work for the people they represent and in turn that helps to improve the overall health and wellbeing of people accessing the service. When I’m not out and about supporting patients I like to crochet and can often be seen sporting very bright homemade cardigans!

After graduation he worked as a research active clinical doctor in Saarland, Germany, before specialising in general practice in the UK. He has undertaken primary care clinical placements, medication education projects, and academic collaborations within Central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Ukraine. He has Master’s degrees in Clinical Research (MSc, 2018) and Global Public Health (MPH, 2021) - both awarded distinction. He is the VdGM representative for the UK Royal College of General Practitioners. His PhD focusses on culturally adapting mental health care within UK general practice for patients originally from countries in Central and Eastern Europe [CLARENCE - https://www.keele.ac.uk/globalhealth/research/clarence].

He completed his master’s degree in Medical Health Professions Education (MHPE) in Maastricht, the Netherlands. His research focus lies on learning and motivation, especially in competency-based blended-learning curricula. In addition to his research and teaching activities, he is a year 4 resident in Family Medicine. He is also an elected executive board member of the Junior Committee of the German College of General Practice, and the council member on the Vasco da Gama (VdGM) European council for Germany. [https://www.uniklinikum-saarland.de/lehre/humanmedizin/2_studienabschnitt/allgemeinmedizin/unser_team/].

Her research focus lies on mixed-methods medical education research in both undergraduate and postgraduate education.

His work and values centre around connection, community, growth and support and in 2019 he co-founded @theworkwelldoctors an organisation which focuses on improving the wellbeing and welfare of healthcare professionals. Alongside his GP work he is a trained coach and works for the LMC representing local GPs; Health Education England supporting doctors returning to training; and the Royal College of General Practitioners building community as the current RCGP Pan London First5AiT Chair.

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