There have been two funding rounds for the Humanitarian Health Fund and a call for applications for the 3rd round closed 17 August 2007. A review panel for this round will be held on 6 September.
So far the amount disbursed totals £91,459.70. First round grants awarded amounted to £40,171.70. 2nd round grants awarded amounted to £51,288.00.
The following is a summary of the recipients for both rounds.
| Health Professional | Purpose | Area | Amount |
| Dr David Beattie GP, Newton Stewart | To provide skilled medical teaching support to the Malawi Essential Health Package Acute Respiratory childhood illness programme for all CHAM hospitals | Malawi | Fund £3,000 |
| David Pitts Associate Director Leadership and Professional Development Centre, Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh | Design and deliver Training Trainers Courses to facilitate surgical training within MMED programme of the Malawi College of Medicine | Malawi | Fund £5,000 |
| Dr Prem Sirisena (retired Consultant psychiatrist) Alloway | Psychosocial rehabilitation of affected population through central (urban) clinic and outreach (rural). Therapeutic sessions to orphaned children, widowed men and women, Project emerges from Sri Lankan Buddhist community living and working in Scotland. | Sri Lanka | Fund £3,877 |
| Prof David Weller University of Edinburgh Head of School Community Health | To develop primary care potential of existing health services in Malawi in order to deliver improved outcomes in chronic disease palliative care. | Malawi | Fund £5,000 |
| Linda McDonald (Nurse, Edinburgh New Royal Infirmary, Author of recipe book, MUM) | Develop the links between Bottom Hospital, Lilongwe and fundraising initiative in Scotland, reciprocal training around breast feeding for East Scotland. | Malawi | Fund £2,160 |
| Prof David Dewhurst, Edinburgh University > | Kick start the E-learning medical teaching resources initiative in three Malawian colleges | Malawi | Fund £2,089 |
| Gordon McPherson | Deliver appropriate nutrition and health learning to teachers and teacher trainers to increase knowledge of school pupils around gardening and food nutrition. | Malawi | Fund £4,456 |
| Carole Morris, Senior Information Analyst NHS Lothian | Design and implement a management information system for the College of Medicine (COM) | Malawi | Fund £2,965.70 |
| Harry Bennett, Consultant Ophthalmologist Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion Edinburgh | Perform cataract surgery on 250 patients, strengthen teaching and training links with the ophthalmic units in semi rural areas of Ethiopia near Bahir. | Ethiopia | Fund £5,000 |
| Charles Tanner | Help establish, at local Government request, an NGO in the North Eastern earthquake affected mountainous area above Balakot to meet the direct needs of the people of this area. | Pakistan | Fund £3,624 |
| Paul Carnaghan GP Stranraer | Provide skilled medical teaching support to the Malawi Essential Health Package Acute Respiratory childhood illness programme for all CHAM hospitals. | Malawi | Fund £3,000 |
| Health Professional Scottish Base and Links | Purpose | Area | Amount |
| Beverley Wellington Clinical Nurse Specialist (Ortho) / Honorary Lecturer (Uni of Paisley North Glasgow Hospitals and Caledonian university [email protected] | Provide clinical teaching in CURE Hospital, Blantyre and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital “ Support the development of an arthroplasty service (joint replacement) at CURE Deliver an intensive 3 day orthopaedic nursing course | Malawi | Fund £1,150 |
| Dr Johannes C Leuvennink, Consultant Psychiatrist, Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries Scottish Malawi Psychiatry Group (Consultants and Specialist Registrars from Dumfries and Galloway, Aberdeen, Lothian NHS Boards) [email protected] | The Psychiatry Group will deliver through 5 week teaching blocks “ Assistance in organising undergraduate psychiatry teaching and assessment Assistance in teaching and assessment of undergraduate medical students in psychiatry in Malawi After implementation of the above, assessment of need for and, if appropriate, assistance in provision of updates and refresher courses to professionals working in Mental Health in Malawi, especially clinical officers and nursing staff. | Malawi | Fund £4,950 |
| Dr Catriona Connelly Consultant Anaesthetist, Ninewells Hospital and the Scottish Malawi Anaesthetist group | The Anaesthetist Group will deliver essential refresher courses in anaesthesia for clinical officers who are often single practitioners carrying out all anaesthetic services on their own. Tutorials on basic maternal physiology, complications of pregnancy, management of preeclampsia, post partum hemorrhage and sepsis, paediatric anaesthesia, (with focus on removal of foreign bodies and trauma) and morbidity and mortality meetings to identify areas where different management may have led to better outcomes for mothers. Start risk management training for COs. | Malawi School of Anaesthesia for clinical officers (CO) | Fund £5,000 |
| Richard Freeman Senior Lecturer School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh [email protected] | The development of a Public Health document outlining ·the mental health needs within Ethiopia the structures of the present and potential service deliverers, ·the policy frameworks presently guiding mental health delivery. ·the legislation underpinning mental health and the recommendations for the reform, ·and the practice implementation of services > | Ethiopia Amanuel Psychiatric Hospital | Fund £4,750 |
| Anne Thompson Acting Deputy Director Royal College of Nursing [email protected] | Three visits from Royal College Senior Staff to work with the partnership organisation “ the Nurse Association of Malawi (NAM) to identify how NAM can maximise its potential as a professional organization and trade union to achieve its goals | Malawi | Fund £5,000 |
| William Whitely Honorary Specialist Registrar in Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital Edinburgh | Develop a robust neurological teaching programme in the College of Medicine “ teach all undergraduate students neurology (no neurologist at present) Provide teaching for post graduate in the Dept of Medicine “ focussing on HIV dementia, and general neurological problems, strokes, epilepsy, Provide a web based resource to help deliver teaching “ ensure that all doctors and clinical officers are able to deal with the clinical neurology “ improve the outcomes for patients especially those with epilepsy and ever increasing problem in Malawi. Develops a sustainable programme for epilepsy support and teaching both in the College of Medicine and in the College of Health Sciences | Malawi | £5,000 |
| Mona McAlpine Health visitor and school nurse NHS Shetland Mona lived in South Africa for 31 years | Running a holiday camp for orphan and vulnerable children and children from families infected by HIV“providing teaching support around Support teachers and health workers (majority of whom have no young people''s health education training) in their heath education delivery “transfer skills learned from Scotland''s SHARE (sexual health education) programme | South Africa Kwa Zulu Natal | £1,100 |
| Irene Gillies Health visitor, Aberdeenshire | As above | South Africa Kwa Zulu Natal | £1,000 |
| James Millar Chief Executive, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow | Deliver support to the develop services for adults and children with disabilities in Malawi through performing essential Orthopaedic operations which Malawian staff at present are not able to perform Train surgical staff to carry out operations Increase the practical skills of rehabilitation assistants and technicians developed especially for cerebral palsy. Deliver lectures on cerebral palsy to paediatric medical staff in Blantyre , multidisciplinary training courses for staff of Malawi Against Physical disability MAP | Malawi | £5,000 |
| Dr John Gillies Associate Adviser in General Practice, Lister Institute, Edinburgh. Principal , Selkirk Health and the Scotland Malawi Primary Palliative Care Team | Continue to improve the quality and scope of palliative care for patients with HIV and cancer throughout Malawi through running a series of training workshops, on site mentoring, reviewing and establishing resources for the five day training course,delivering support to the Malawi trainers to ensure a country wide spread of service delivery as requested by the Ministry of Health Malawi | Malawi | £5,000 |
| Professor Frank Carey and the Scottish Pathology Network (SPAN “ funded by the Scottish Executive) With participants from across all Scottish Boards | Deliver the pathology component of the under graduate and post graduate educational programme in order to develop the diagnostic services throughout Malawi, especially for cancers. Contribute to the Laboratory technology BSc | Malawi | £5,000 |
| Pete Falconer Information Technology Manager, Lauder College, Fife | Provide IT consultancy support to the head of the College of Medicine IT dept to enable the dept to develop a Student Management System “ to work alongside another Scottish volunteer in developing the IT services. Deliver useful networking equipment to the College from Scottish colleges Establish a virtual learning environment and work with Zomba psychiatric hospital to establish e-learning systems to keep health professional staff connected and in touch with service provision and skills update | Malawi College of Medicine and Zomba Hospital | £3,390 |
| Professor David Alexander Professor of Mental health, Aberdeen Consultant in the Aberdeen Centre for Trauma Research and key staff from Aberdeen University medical school | Provide specialist training in trauma related services, and support Pakistan in their planning of disaster response services. Speak at the International Conference on Disaster Management in Pakistan sharing experiences and pulling together good practice the team will make a major contribution to reshaping the mental health services in the Kasmiri region “ with special emphasis on coping with trauma and preparation for further trauma. | Department of Psychiatry in Rawalpindi, Pakistan | £4,948 |
