Strengthening networks and building sustainable partnerships

These links help to provide fellows with peer-networks that support learning and training, and help ensure that fellowship insights are fully shared and best practices are implemented.

The recent workshops in Edinburgh for fellows from Uganda and Zambia in November 2024, and for fellows from Kenya, Malawi and Uganda in January/February 2025, have been instrumental in developing these relationships.

The fellowship programmes have also supported fellows to make regional visits and benefit from further cross-cohort interactions. 

The animal health AMR fellows from Zambia recently spent a week with counterparts in Uganda (January 2025).  Ricky Chazya (Department of Veterinary Service) and Mulumbi Nkamba (Central Veterinary Research Institute) visited the National Drug Authority, National Animal Disease Diagnostics and Epidemiology Centre and the National Water Quality Reference Laboratory, and met with laboratory and clinical colleagues from Kampala, Entebbe and Mbale to share experiences.

The Ugandan animal health fellows made  reciprocal visits with their counterparts in Lusaka, Zambia at the end of February 2025. 

In early February, fellows from the Ugandan and Zambian cohorts joined the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community 74th Health Ministers’ Conference, held in Lilongwe, Malawi. 

This was a valuable opportunity for the new cohorts to meet with alumni fellows from Malawi, Kenya and Uganda, some of whom were actively involved in the organisation and running of the conference. 

Harriet Okello, the Ugandan human heath AMR advoacy fellow, has also recently met with current and alumni policy fellows in Kenya, who are part of the national AMR secreteriat.

All fellowship cohorts are currently undertaking projects with their beneficiary institutions, and continuing workplace-based training.   

Dr Adrian Muwonge, co-director of the fellowship schemes in Edinburgh, recently visited fellows in Uganda and Zambia, to discuss their progress and challenges with the fellowship collaborative projects, and provide further support and guidance.

And Dr Mahmoud Eltholth from Royal Holloway University of London, has also met with the fellows from Kenya on visit to Nairobi.

The connections and partnerships formed through these all activities are key to the longer term sustainability and impact of the fellowships, and we look forward to seeing them grow over the next year.

Fleming Fund fellows from Uganda, Kenya and Malawi visit Edinburgh

Training to combat drug resistance as awareness week begins

Fleming Fund fellowships at the University of Edinburgh

Adrian Muwonge

Fleming Fund