Oxford, 12 September 2025 – Primary Care International (PCI) has announced a new partnership with the Sudanese British Primary Care Association (SBPCA), bringing more than 200 doctors from Sudan onto The PCI Academy to access high-quality training and resources in primary care. This collaboration is designed to strengthen clinical skills and expand continuous professional development … Read more …
Primary Care International (PCI) is delighted to announce a new collaboration with The Open University (OU) through a Knowledge Transfer Voucher award for 2025–26. The project, Exploring AI-Driven Adaptive Online Learning for Global Healthcare Practitioners across Diverse Contexts, will develop and test an innovative approach to personalised digital learning. By combining OU’s expertise in inclusive, … Read more …
In 2018, I was working as a Clinical Officer in Imvepi Zone 3 Health Post — a remote corner of a Ugandan refugee settlement. The needs were overwhelming. But one thing was clear to anyone walking through those gates: when it came to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), our systems had been left behind. That same year, … Read more …
The PCI Academy is evolving Why we’ve made a change Strong primary care is the backbone of every health system — especially in low-resource, humanitarian, and conflict-affected settings. And yet, frontline clinicians in these contexts are too often left under-supported, under-resourced, and isolated. The PCI Academy has been working with Ministries of Health, UN agencies … Read more …
Digital technologies have revolutionised various aspects of our lives, including education. Traditional learning models are rapidly changing as digital tools and resources integrate, giving rise to digital learning. This shift has the potential to transform training for the health workforce, empowering professionals to acquire and enhance their skills and knowledge more efficiently. The COVID-19 pandemic … Read more …
This summer we oficially launched the PCI Academy with our inaugural online NCD course, in partnership with UNHCR. We now hear feedback directly from some of the primary healthcare workers who have completed the course. Dr. Bashir Dirie Jama from Somaliland, Dr Happy Paulianne Mwete from Burundi, Dr Sila Monthe from Kenya and Edward Vukoni … Read more …
What does it mean to ‘build capacity’ of healthcare workers globally? We know that clinical expertise must be matched with knowledge and appreciation of context – politics, policy, economy, culture. As resources are redirected to economic recovery from COVID-19, most obviously demonstrated in the recent dramatic cuts to UK development assistance, there is now an opportunity to radically rethink our approaches to learning and recalibrate current dynamics.
We are delighted to officially launch the PCI Academy with our inaugural online NCD course, in partnership with UNHCR. The PCI Academy is PCI’s learning hub for primary care practitioners working globally. It’s our ‘home’ for learning. The course being launched today – ‘Management of NCDs in primary care’ – consists of interactive self-paced e-learning … Read more …
We’re delighted to be partnering with Altibbi to provide learning for their telehealth practitioners across the Middle East and North Africa region. Altibbi is the leading digital health platform in the region. The platform currently facilitates around 10,000 consultations per day with carefully selected and trained doctors. Altibbi is now launching the Altibbi Academy, produced … Read more …
The latest in our ‘Primary Care Perspectives’ series sees us ‘in conversation’ with PCI Project Managers and colleagues: discussing their experience of the strengthening and development of primary health workforce capacity since COVID-19. Are we seeing a long-term fundamental shift in how this will be done? Or will things be ‘back to normal’ in a year’s time?
