ZHTS aims to:

  Establish a network based in the United Kingdom of health professionals who are interested in supporting health professional training and education in Zimbabwe

 

  Encourage and actively participate in the setting up of links between Zimbabwean and British universities, hospitals and other organisations

 

  Provide specific support for health professional training in Zimbabwe by providing educational resources and developing innovative approaches. This could be through visiting lecturers, examiners, books, journals or electronic learning materials

 

  Raise funds and donations in-kind in support of these activities

ZHTS Trustees are elected each year at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The last AGM was May 8th 2010. All members are encouraged to attend and potential members and interested others are very welcome. We are particularly wanting to connect with the large number of Zimbabwean health professionals who, while currently using their skills within the UK, remain strongly committed to Zimbabwe and to supporting our colleagues there.

If you are interested in becoming a Trustee of ZHTS, please email the ZHTS Secretary: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The current Trustees are:

Zed Sibanda

Charles Todd

Sunanda Ray

Farai Madzimbamuto

Kate Adams

Kirsten Scott

Gillian Parks

Valerie Tagwira

Zed Sibanda (Chair)

Zed qualified in 1987 from the University of Zimbabwe Medical School.  He was a founder member of the Hospital Doctors Association and served a term as their General Secretary.  Zed came to the UK initially in 1990 and did postgraduate training in Paediatrics (MRCPCH).  He returned to Zimbabwe in 1997 and worked for 4 years as a Consultant Paediatrician at Mpilo and Bulawayo Central Hospitals.  Zed and his family moved back to the UK in 2001 and he now works as a Consultant Paediatrician at West Wales General Hospital.

Charles Todd

Charles is a qualified as a doctor and completed his postgraduate training in general practice in the UK, and then moved to Zimbabwe. Over a 20 year stay, he worked successively as a government medical officer; lecturer / professor in the country’s single medical school, including a spell as Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine; and Regional Health Adviser to the European Union. After returning to Europe in 2002, he worked in DG Development at the European Commission in Brussels, and then the Department for International Development in London. He has now returned to general practice and is a partner and GP trainer at a practice near Aylesbury.

Sunanda Ray

Sunanda is a founder member of ZHTS and is a Public Health Physician (Fellow of Faculty of Public Health UK). She went to Zimbabwe for Oxfam in 1983 and worked at Murambinda Hospital for 2 years. She subsequently worked for Harare City Health, taught in Community Medicine at UZ Medical School and headed the Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Project based in the University. Before leaving Zimbabwe for the UK she was Director of SAfAIDS (Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service). Sunanda now works as a Consultant in Public Health at Brighton & Hove City Teaching Primary Care Trust.

Farai Madzimbamuto

Farai is a founder member of ZHTS. He qualified in 1985 from the University of Zimbabwe Medical School and has specialised in anaesthetics [MMed Zimbabwe and FRCA UK]. Farai was lecturing in anaesthetics at UZ medical school when and he and his family left Zimbabwe for the UK in 2003. He now works as a locum Consultant Anaesthetist for Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust.

Kirsten Scott (Secretary)

Kirsten is Zimbabwean and currently doing the academic foundation program at King's College Hospital in London. She has been involved in projects relating to Zimbabwe since the beginning of medical school, including supporting the TB program at Murambinda hospital, setting up the student led link at King's College London (Project Zimbabwe) and working with ZHTS since its inception. Her academic interests include neurology, respiratory medicine, epidemiology and medical education. 

Flora N. S. Todlana

Flo is Zimbabwean with considerable academic, teaching and research experience in the fields of Food Sciences, Health & Nutrition and Public Health and has attained; BEd (Hon), PGDip and MSc. She has studied and worked in Zimbabwe, Botswana and the UK and has published articles in various scientific journals. She is currently writing up her doctoral thesis at the Centre for Obesity Research and Epidemiology (CORE), in the School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland focusing on the prevalence and possible risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in communities around Zimbabwe.

Kate Adams

Kate is a GP in Hackney, East London, and deputy chair of the British Medical Associations International Committee. She has also been a non-executive director of the BMJ Publishing Group since 2003. Her medico-political interests include health and human rights, asylum seekers’ health, postgraduate training, patient safety, skills drain, supporting overseas doctors and diaspora.

Gillian Park (Treasurer)

A&E Consultant, Northwick Park Hospital, London

Valerie Joan Tagwira

The way in which ZHTS thinks about its role and relationships is based on the following principles and values.

ZHTS:

• Is responsive to needs identified by our Zimbabwean partners to ensure inputs are useful and appropriate
• Ensures the quality of its services and relationships through regular monitoring, review and feedback
• Is transparent and accountable in its internal operations and its external relationships with donors, partners and other stakeholders
• Works in a cost-effective way by mobilising voluntary and in-kind contributions, piggy-backing on other initiatives where this makes financial sense, forming complementary partnerships, and maintaining over-head costs at a miniumum
• Works with the ZHTS membership, volunteers and strategic partners in a spirit of a mutual respect, common concern and shared enterprise
• Is guided by a global health, human rights and development perspective
• Prioritises the poor and most vulnerable, and in particular the needs of women and children
• Works in support of the public health care system and service providers