This is a past event
Part of the Med-Chi Lecture Series
Professor Wendy Graham recently became Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Epidemiology at the University of Aberdeen, and also holds an Honorary Professorship at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She trained at Sheffield and then Oxford University, and has specialist interests in the prevention of obstetric mortality – working collaboratively in over 25 low-income countries over the last 30 years.
Professor Graham’s current work includes quality improvement of maternity services, prevention of healthcare-associated infections, and maternal death surveillance. She remains research active in her Emeritus role, and is the P.I. for a new MRC-funded study on improving hand-hygiene on maternity units. She is the Chief Scientific Adviser for The Soapbox Collaborative (www.soapboxcollaborative.org) – an Aberdeen-based charitable trust devoted to reducing infections at delivery in low-income countries. Professor Graham continues to serve as an adviser for many international organisations and initiatives, including the World Health Organization and the Wellcome Trust, and to work with research groups, NGOs and health facilities primarily in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Gambia, India and Tanzania. She is also the lead for an initiative at the University of Aberdeen to strengthen learning on global health among medical students.
Finger buffet available from 6.30pm. Tea & Coffee will be available after the meeting.
- Venue
- Med-Chi Hall, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill
- Contact
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Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Medical School, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD
Tel: 01224 437104 Email: medchi.admin@abdn.ac.uk Web: www.med-chi.co.uk