Clinical Associates

Nelly is a passionate health professional with close to 10 years of experience as a Kenyan Registered Nurse. She has a solid background in nursing and midwifery with substantial experience in both clinical and community setups. She has demonstrated exceptional skills serving as a nursing educator at the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) and has a passion for improving healthcare outcomes through education and empowering individuals to lead healthy lives. Nelly is a lifelong learner and constantly seeks opportunities to enhance her professional expertise and inspire positive change in healthcare systems.

Aliki is a Primary Care doctor and Global Health and Education Consultant. She holds an MSc in Primary Care from the University of Glasgow where she is an honorary clinical lecturer in Global Health and Primary Care. She holds a DTM&H from Liverpool School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research and advocacy interests include Refugee and Migration Health, Universal Health Coverage and health systems strengthening. She has worked with the UN and FCDO in Bangladesh, working with the Rohingya Refugees and with Orbis in Peru, monitoring and evaluating an eye health systems strengthening project.

Maisun is a GP/ Family physician in the UK working in an inner-city area. Currently working as a Consultant in Integrated and Community care. She is also an educator, a Training Programme Director at Coventry and Warwickshire GP Training Programme. She has a diploma in Respiratory Medicine and is still working on MSc in respiratory Medicine. She has a passion for tackling health inequality.

Dr Marwa Khattabi trained and worked as a General Practitioner/Family Physician in the West Midlands, UK.

Marwa holds an MSc in Clinical Primary and Community Care from the University of Birmingham. She has a particular interest in refugee health and has worked in refugee health clinics in Coventry and Warwickshire. Marwa is also interested in mental health, women’s health, and health promotion & prevention of chronic diseases.

Katy is a UK-trained GP/family physician. As well as working in the UK, she has spent more than ten years working in a hospital in rural Madagascar. Since 2020, she has been based in Kenya where she has pioneered and leads a higher diploma in family health for clinical officers (mid-level health workers) and she is involved in strengthening NCD care through guideline development, e-learning and in-person training.

Amparo works as a GP / Family Physician in England. She originally graduated as a doctor in Colombia where she previously lived and worked for a few years. She later trained as a GP/Family physician in The UK.

Amparo has a longstanding interest in medical education, urgent care and Diabetes. She enjoys her role as a clinical supervisor and trainer.

 She feels passionate about the importance of family physicians in primary care and their positive impact on patients’ care and the prevention of chronic health conditions.

Dr. Floris works in the Netherlands as GP in different migrant centers and in a regular practise with patients with a low social economical status. He also holds a degree in International Health and Tropical Medicine from the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. He has been working in a rural hospital in Ethiopia where he was involved in the training program for surgical officers. After this clinical position he moved to Zimbabwe where for a position as a project manager, aiming to improve the quality of care in two rural districts including 50 health centers and 4 hospitals. He was responsible for the implementation of different primary care interventions for NCD’s and maternal and child health, including different training and supervision programs. Besides his work in Africa, he has also been working in Lesbos at the Refugee camp at a primary healthcare clinic.

Muhammad is a physician trained in psychiatry. He works at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) as a research fellow in mental health. His work focuses on strengthening countries’ and Public Health Institutes’ capacity to integrate Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) into emergency preparedness and response.

Prior to joining LSHTM, he worked with the Egyptian Ministry of Health on different mental health-related projects, including integrating mental health into primary healthcare services through the implementation of the WHO’s Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP).

Muhammad has extensive experience as a psychiatrist, humanitarian, as well as a researcher improving access to mental health services in various contexts.

Dr Ahmed Alboksmaty is a medical doctor and public health professional, working as a Clinical Research Fellow and pursuing his PhD at the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI), Imperial College London. He holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBCh) from Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt, and a Master of Public Health (Global Health Stream) from Imperial College London, achieved with the prestigious Chevening Scholarship Award for global leaders.

Dr Alboksmaty rejoined Imperial College in June 2024, following two years of GP clinical training in Cambridge (UK), where he held an Academic Clinical Fellowship at the Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (THIS Institute), University of Cambridge. Previously with Imperial, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he spent two years with IGHI, co-leading a research stream focused on patient safety and the utilisation of health technologies in primary care. Prior to this, he was a research assistant at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health in 2018. He also continues to co-lead the “Health & Society” module at the MSc in Health Policy at IGHI.

Since 2019, Dr Alboksmaty has been a consultant with the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO), specialising in Quality, Patient Safety, and Health System Development. His contributions to various WHO missions have been pivotal in promoting quality and patient safety across the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) and in challenging environments with limited resources and extreme adversity.

Mamsallah is a practising GP/Family physician. With an MSc in Global Health Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Mamsallah is also a seasoned health policy consultant and is currently based between the UK and Nigeria. She began work as a GP in inner city London, before moving to South Africa to work in operational research at the interface of HIV and primary care, subsequently working as a Clinical Lecturer in Family Medicine at Wits University. Most recently Mamsallah has worked in clinical practice in Lagos alongside a role as Faculty at the Healthcare Leadership Academy: HLA Africa.  Mamsallah has worked with PCI since 2017, supporting a number of different partners and projects, and since 2020 has overseen all the clinical side to our work, as Clinical Director. In particular she has been leading our Clinical Associates on the development of material for our PCI Academy, ensuring that healthworkers get accurate, up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills to manage a range of NCDs and broader primary care issues. From May 2024, Mamsallah has taken on the role of Strategy Director at PCI.

Penny is a GP with over 26 years experience of working in primary care in South East London with its culturally and socially diverse population. As well as her clinical practice she is a medical educator and teaches evidence-based medicine and communication skills to specialist trainees in general practice as well as medical students at St George’s medical school. She is a programme director for a postgraduate GP training programme in South East London. She has The Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes, and currently volunteers at a clinic for refugees in London. She has international experience in family medicine & nurse mentorship in Peru & Nepal.

Dr Helen Bygrave trained as a doctor in the UK and continues to work as a GP in East London. An experienced global health professional, Helen works as the NCD Advisor for the Médécins Sans Frontières Access Campaign and has since 2005 been providing technical support for MSF’s HIV/TB projects across Africa and Asia. Outside MSF she consults for the WHO and the International AIDS Society, providing technical assistance to national ART programmes worldwide. For PCI, Helen is currently leading an NCD programme for the UNHCR in Tanzania and has previously worked on training and quality assurance projects in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Rwanda.  

Kidest is an experienced healthcare professional with extensive work experience in paediatrics clinical and community nursing (HIV and other blood borne diseases, PMTCT) , program management, hospital middle management, Human Resources for Health and health systems strengthening in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Australia, the Republic of Ireland and Nigeria. She has led the development of multiple leadership capacity building programs, development of curriculum and leadership coaching programs. Ms Nadew holds a Master’s of Health Science from the University of Sydney and is a doctoral candidate with Glasgow Caledonian University in Health and Life Sciences. She also holds certificates in human resources management, leadership and change management coaching.

Khairat is a family physician, medical educator, consultant and researcher. She holds an MSc in Global Health Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. As a practicing family physician, she runs an inpatient and outpatient practice in Beirut. She is also a faculty member at a prominent medical school in Lebanon teaching both family medicine and social medicine. With the shift to online teaching, she transformed her courses into online delivery while maintaining the interactive aspects. She worked on consultancy projects related to assessment of competency-based medical education for the family medicine programme. Her research interests include empathetic communication, medical education, conflicts of interest as well as women and children’s health. Previously, she worked as a trainer with the United Nations Development Programme to improve primary care in Lebanon. She was also a trainer at the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations where she was the regional assistant on human rights and peace. With PCI, she is currently working on the PCI Academy project as well as the Libyan project.

Reina is a practising family physician and medical director of a primary health care center in Beirut. She also works for a health economics and outcome research consultancy firm. Prior to that, she led (in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon) an audit for the “Emergency Primary Health Care Restoration Project”, a national project funded by the World Bank, delivering training and capacity building to primary care teams working in 75 centers across the country. Reina represents Lebanon in Al-Razi movement for young family doctors, WONCA and has been actively involved in their activities, advocating for primary care in the East Mediterranean region. She graduated from the American University of Beirut and holds a Master degree in health policy from Imperial College London.

Peter is a GP / family physician with thirty years experience in family medicine. In addition to his work with asylum seekers for the NHS, he has extensive international experience. He spent four years working in Tunisia and regularly teaches on a Family Medicine course run by the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. As PCI’s former – and founding – Clinical Director, Peter supported and advised the clinical team across the whole PCI portfolio, as well as leading a number of projects. He continues to provide clinical expertise across a range of projects for PCI.

Sarah is a GP / family physician with extensive international experience in building capacity in health care professionals in low and middle income settings, with a focus on pragmatic, evidence-based training and support. As a Clinical Advisor for the NHS she designed and delivered primary health care services for asylum seekers. Internationally Sarah has a wide range of teaching, facilitating and advisory experience in primary health care across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. As PCI’s former – and founding – Clinical Director, Sarah supported and advised the clinical team across the whole PCI portfolio, as well as leading a number of projects. She continues to provide clinical expertise across a range of projects for PCI, with special expertise advising on the building blocks of effective primary health care in resource-poor settings with a particular focus on NCD care.

Anbreen is a primary care doctor and a Swiss board certified specialist in General and Internal Medicine. As a practising physician in several regional and teaching hospitals in Switzerland, she held the position of senior resident in the Department of Primary Care, Community Medicine and Emergencies at the Geneva University Hospitals for more than a decade. Since her move to Eygpt in 2014, she has worked as a consultant in medical training, advising medical institutions on chronic care management and training doctors in primary care delivery as well as improving chronic diseases management. She has most recently supported PCI’s work on NCD care pathways in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Libya.

Philippa initially trained as a physician with an interest in infectious diseases, tropical medicine and HIV and has worked with rural communities in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.  She is now combining primary care clinical practice in the UK with her interest in research and global health.  She holds a Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she is currently a clinical research fellow having been awarded a fellowship by the National Institute for Health Research focusing on refugee health.

Philippa first encountered PCI while working for an NGO in Zanzibar where she was involved in a sustainable model of healthcare delivery alongside the Ministry of Health. Since then Philippa has worked for PCI on NCD care for the UNHCR in Tanzania, a partnership with the Mozambique Institute for Health Educational and Research, and lead on the delivery of the WHO Global Hearts programme in Sudan and Jordan.

Kiran works as a GP in the UK and also with Queen Margaret University and the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences Sierra Leone on non-communicable disease action research projects. He has worked in both humanitarian and development contexts across Africa, Asia and Europe.

Silvia is a UK qualified Family Physician currently based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She holds a Masters Degree in Health Policy and Planning from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as well as the Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians.

David has more than twenty years of experience as a General Practitioner / Family Physician. Having led large urban practices, his clinical practice is now on a remote Scottish Island. David has a longstanding interest in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and has worked as a palliative care facilitator and lecturer in the UK and in India. For PCI he has advised on primary care strategy and has worked as a primary care trainer and facilitator across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. His most recent projects include creating an NCD training programme for the Ministry of Health in Botswana and leading a team working on NCD care for the UNHCR in Uganda.

Anushka is a GP/Family Physician in diverse South East London, working with a multi-cultural community. One of her interests is migrant health, having volunteered with organisations in the UK supporting vulnerable migrants and with the UK Chagas Hub to promote Chagas testing in the UK’s Latin American community. She also has experience as a digital health leader, both privately and in the NHS where she is Medical Director for a GP Federation. She has previously lived and worked in Argentina, and has a Masters in Public Health.

Tineke is a Registered Nurse, international Public Health professional and Educational Trainer. She has worked in a variety of primary health care settings in South America, Sub Saharan Africa and the Netherlands. In Kenya she was involved in setting up a community-based healthcare insurance plan with PharmAccess, assuring access to healthcare in a rural setting. She has been a health system advisor on various health projects worldwide, including setting up NCD patient support groups. Nowadays she is involved in training health care professionals at the Christian University of Applied Sciences (Ede, Netherlands) to prepare to work in low-income settings. Tineke spends her time thinking about and creating inspiring and challenging e-learning programmes. With a Masters in Public Health from the University of South Africa (Pretoria), she has a passion for Universal Health Coverage.

Eatimad is a Public Health Professional with a master’s degree in public health, Bachelor degree in nursing sciences and high diploma in midwifery.

She practiced nursing and midwifery in different settings of primary health care services in Palestine: mainly those targeting people living in remote areas and seeking NCD, mental health and reproductive health services. In addition, she worked for more than 10 years as a lecturer and clinical instructor for nursing and midwifery students in Ibn Sina College for Health Sciences, Bethlehem University and Al-Quds University.

Currently she is working with the Palestinian National Institute of Public Health as Public Health Officer where she is participating in implementing recognized health projects in Palestine.

Throughout her work in public health, she has Nurse/Midwifecoordinated health projects in both development and humanitarian settings with different partners and stakeholders including; local and international governmental and non-governmental organizations in Palestine, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan.

Allana is a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. She holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Liverpool. She is responsible for coordinating the delivery of Primary Health Care services in a county in Trinidad. She lectures part-time in a postgraduate Family Medicine programme.

Lundi-Anne Omam is a Public Health expert with over a decade of experience developing, managing and coordinating primary health interventions in hard-to-reach, post-conflict and conflict-affected communities. She served as the Assistant Executive Director of Reach Out Cameroon and also served as the Vice President of the oversight committee for programs funded by Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in her country. Her experience in humanitarian health responses are service delivery during different models of care advocacy, health system strengthening, project coordination and management.

Lundi-Anne Omam has a Master’s degree in Global Health Systems, Theory and Policy from Queen Mary University of London. Currently, she is studying a PhD in Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge and her research interest is in primary health care in conflict-affected settings of Cameroon and Nigeria.

Aisha is a Public Health Physician passionate about teaching and creating enabling environments for preventive medicine. She has worked in a number of contexts, building experience in health systems strengthening, emergency programming and cross cutting issues like gender, diversity and inclusion. She has a Masters in Global Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and presently works for the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan as Senior Health Programme Advisor. Aisha served on the board of African Public Health Network as General Secretary and as Co-Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Community Affairs, Johns Hopkins Student Assembly. She is an awardee of the Delta-Omega Honorary Society of Public Health, Washington, 2021. Aisha has worked in Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, South Sudan and Afghanistan with NGOs alongside the host country’s Ministry of Public Health. She targets to contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals globally, with particular attention to Health, Education and Gender.