CPhO Global Health Fellows Programme
CPhO Global Health Fellows
Sixteen pharmacists volunteering as part of the Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship (CwPAMS) Programme completed a year long fellowship and successfully graduated on the 4th of September 2020 as the first cohort of the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England’s Global Health (CPhOGH) Fellows. The CPhOGH Fellows scheme was a unique leadership development programme with the aim of cultivating pharmacists as clinical leaders of the future and was the result of an initial request made by Dr Keith Ridge, England’s Chief Pharmaceutical Officer.
The Fellowship was led by the CPA and funded by Health Education England (HEE) and was the first global health fellowship for pharmacists in the UK. It supported the appointed fellows by broadening their knowledge and understanding of global health through their active participation in the CwPAMS programmes which took place in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia between 2019 – 2020. In 2021, our second cohort of thirteen fellows was appointed to work across eight African regions as part of the second round of CwPAMS which extended further into Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. An additional positive impact of the first fellow’s programme was to cultivate a team of mentorship leaders for the successful candidates that followed.

Dr Keith Ridge, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer
"Tackling the growing risk of antimicrobial resistance is a challenge for global society and this initiative offers specialist pharmacists in the UK an excellent professional opportunity, while also sharing their expertise in challenging environments as part of what needs to be a concerted campaign to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing."
CPhO Global Health Fellows Cohort 2021-2022

Aarash Ahmadi
Specialist Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Aaron Courtenay
Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy

Ceri Phillips
Consultant Pharmacist - Antimicrobials

Charlotte Makanga
Consultant Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Charlotte Richards
Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Fatima Abba
Specialist Pharmacist in Travel Health

Indu Das
Antimicrobial Specialist pharmacist

Jagdeep Gheer
Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

John Robinson
Foundation Rotational Pharmacist

Natasha Hamilton-Tanner
Lead Pharmacist for Critical Care and Theatres

Navjeet Nagi
Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Suzanne Thomas
Education Lead (Clinical education / clinical pharmacy)

Usha Adhikari
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
CPhO Global Health Fellows Mentors 2021-2022

Bee Yean Ng
Specialist Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Claire Brandish
Lead Anti-Infectives Pharmacist

Diane Ashiru-Oredope
Pharmacist Lead - UK Health Security Agency

Edwin Panford-Quainoo
UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH)

Fran Garraghan
Senior Tech AMR Advisor

Frances Kerr
Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Joyce Mahungu
Lead Pharmacist

Kate Russell-Hobbs
Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Misha Ladva

Reem Santos
CUH Lead Pharmacist
CPhO Global Health Fellows Cohort 2019-2020

Aarash Ahmadi
Specialist Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Aaron Courtenay
Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy

Alison Cockburn
Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Amritpal Atwal
Haematology/Oncology Pharmacist

Bee Yean Ng
Specialist Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Ceri Phillips
Consultant Pharmacist - Antimicrobials

Charlotte Makanga
Consultant Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Charlotte Richards
Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Claire Brandish
Lead Anti-Infectives Pharmacist

Edwin Panford-Quainoo
UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH)

Esmita Charani
Adviser, CwPAMS

Fatima Abba
Specialist Pharmacist in Travel Health

Fiona Rees
Specialist Pharmacist

Fran Garraghan
Senior Tech AMR Advisor

Frances Kerr
Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Indu Das
Antimicrobial Specialist pharmacist

Jagdeep Gheer
Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

John Robinson
Foundation Rotational Pharmacist

Joseph Brayson
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Joyce Mahungu
Lead Pharmacist

Kate Russell-Hobbs
Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Misha Ladva

Natasha Hamilton-Tanner
Lead Pharmacist for Critical Care and Theatres

Navjeet Nagi
Antimicrobial Pharmacist

Preet Panesar
Lead Pharmacist – Microbiology

Reem Santos
CUH Lead Pharmacist

Scott Barrett
Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Suzanne Thomas
Education Lead (Clinical education / clinical pharmacy)

Usha Adhikari
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
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