Global Health Partnerships Cymru

Dr Julia Terry

Julia is an Associate Professor at Swansea University, where she teaches research methods to health professional students, primarily in Nursing. A qualified mental health nurse with over 30 years of experience, Julia is passionate about addressing health inequalities, particularly among underserved and marginalized groups. Her research focuses on working with people who experience barriers to healthcare access, including Deaf communities, who face significantly higher health risks. Julia’s work is grounded in a commitment to equity and inclusion in health care. She has taught mental health nursing and research both in the UK and internationally, including in Uganda, where she participated in a Welsh Government-funded International Learning Opportunity. Her global perspective and dedication to health improvement drive her ongoing interest in advancing healthcare outcomes worldwide. Julia continues to collaborate across disciplines and borders to help ensure better, fairer health for all.

Israa Mohammed

Israa works as is an Advanced Epidemiological Scientist at Public Health Wales, supporting infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigations. With a background in pharmacy and public health, she brings over eight years of multidisciplinary experience in epidemiology, clinical pharmacy, and academia across Sudan and the UK. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) from the University of Khartoum, an MSc in Clinical Pharmacy, and an MSc in Public Health for Development from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).  Israa began her career as a hospital and community pharmacist in Sudan, where she provided patient care, supported antimicrobial stewardship, and contributed to health education initiatives.  

After her MSc at LSHTM, she began her career in epidemiology, applying her expertise in data analysis, surveillance, and outbreak response. She now works as a field epidemiologist, where her role involves identifying signals and trends in the community, designing and coordinating field investigations and contributing to strengthening outbreak preparedness and response. She actively contributes to capacity-strengthening and international collaboration as Co-Chair of Global Health Partnerships Cymru, working to promote health partnerships within Wales and globally while strengthening NHS Wales’s global health engagement. 

Monique Gouveia Hurter

I am a Global Project Manager in Clinical Research working for Thermo Fisher Scientific. I have over 10 years experience in the sports medicine and clinical research sectors and have worked in Southern and Central Africa and the UK and Europe. I have a strong passion for equality in health for all.

Amanda Daniel

Amanda is currently the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Lead for the community at Public Health Wales. Her background roles include the lead nurse at the Hospital for Tropical Disease, London, before moving into Public Health, Research, and IPC. She has a BSc (Hons) in Health Protection and MSc in Infection Management in addition to a Diploma in Tropical Nursing. Her interests are in global IPC, outbreak response and antimicrobial resistance. She has worked in parts of India, Bangladesh and Cambodia around neglected tropical diseases and IPC and she has collaborated with WHO and other stakeholders in global outbreak response in West and East Africa.
 

Prof Ewan Wilkinson

Professor Ewan Wilkinson has worked and lived in sub-Saharan Africa for many years. He trained as a GP in UK, and, while working in rural Malawi, realised there was more to health than giving out tablets, so he trained in public health. He worked in public health in the NHS for over twenty years, while maintaining his interest in health in low and middle income countries. He then worked with the University of Chester in international public health, and teaches on a WHO programme training frontline staff in operational research. This takes place both in low and middle income countries and in some high income countries. He was the CEO until early 2024 of a small UK-based charity improving access to mental health care through private not-for-profit hospitals in Uganda.

Ben Simms

Ben has been CEO of the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) since 2015. He has 30 years’ experience of working internationally, with an emphasis on global health and disability work. He has worked extensively across Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia during this time, harnessing expertise from across the UK health community, in the NHS and in specialist medical charities such as Sue Ryder and Sense, to benefit the development of health and social care in low and middle-income countries. For the last fifteen years he has been in leadership roles, building a strong track-record in advocacy and programme innovation, and working closely with UK Government departments and UN agencies. His knowledge of the INGO sector is further informed by periods chairing BOND Working Groups and taking active roles in health networks such as STOPAIDS, the network he directed from 2010 to 2015. Ben has led an active voluntary life in the UK throughout this time, serving as a Councillor and acting as a Trustee of several charities. He became a Fellow of the RSA in 2019 and is a member of the BBC Charity Appeals Advisory Committee. Ben has an MSc in Development Management from the Open University and an MA in History from Edinburgh University.

At THET, Ben leads an organisation that is pioneering a health partnership approach to the training of health workers across 30 countries in Africa and Asia. Health partnerships harness the skills of staff from the UK National Health Service in ways which bring mutual benefit to all involved, a vision of co-development that speaks to the new era of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Dolen Cymru

Dolen Cymru is an independent charity which fostered a unique country to country link between Wales and Lesotho.  Since 1985 life-changing partnerships have been created between communities, schools, health organisations and individuals.

Glan Clwyd- Ethiopia Health Link

The Glan Clwyd-Hossana link is a partnership between staff at Glan Clwyd hospital in North Wales, UK and staff at Nigist Eleni Memorial Hospital in Hossana, Southern Ethiopia. The link between Glan Clwyd hospital and NEM hospital Hossana was set up in 2006 as part of an NHS-wide initiative encouraging links between health institutions in the UK and hospitals in low income countries. An offshoot Eye link has been established, and more recently a Primary Care link also.

Pont

PONT’s aim as a charity is to build a new model of development based on direct personal relationships between communities here in Wales and communities in Uganda. The twinning of Pontypridd town and Rhondda Cynon Taf borough with Mbale town and district in Uganda offers PONT a launchpad to achieve its aim. Presently there are 13 different categories of partnership links between both communities whose purpose is to improve the lives of the people of Mbale.

Swansea-Gambia Link

We are a partnership between the School of Medicine in The Gambia and the College of Medicine, SwanseaThe Swansea Gambia Link is co-led by staff and medical students within South Wales and The Gambia. We organise a number of events each year to fundraise for our nursing, midwifery and medical student exchange programmes.

Life for African Mothers

Life for African Mothers is a Maternal Health charity aiming to make birth safer in Sub Saharan Africa, by providing medication to treat eclampsia and post partum haemorrhage.By providing medication to treat the complications of child birth, we have been able to support hospitals and health centres across Africa and see huge reductions in maternal mortality

Umoyo-Social Enterprise for Health

The aim of Umoyo is to work with the people of Malawi and Southern Africa towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and turning the dream of “Health for All” into reality. We dream of the people of Malawi achieving a level of health comparable to the best in the world by the middle of the 21st century, and extending that achievement to the rest of Southern Africa thereafter.

Vale for Africa

Vale for Africa works with TOCIDA in the Tororo distircit of Uganda. Africa, to improve healthcare, education and library services, through fostering community.

Based in the Vale of Glamorgan, Vale for Africa is a member of the groundbreaking Wales for Africa programme of more than 100 charities that work to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.