Dr Richard Pinder
Director of Undergraduate Public Health Education
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Primary Care and Public Health
Richard is a consultant public health physician and clinical academic with an interest in health systems and epidemiology. He leads Imperial's Undergraduate Public Health (UGPH) Education team as the senior lead for Population Health, Epidemiology, Global Health and Lifestyle Medicine courses within the Faculty.
Richard is passionate about developing future leaders in public health and global health. Starting with the Lifestyle Medicine and Population modules, Imperial's future doctors are rooted in Public Health from their first days as a medical student. The School of Public Health’s Global Health BSc programme is a central means of developing those future leaders. By the end of our programmes, our students wil be able to handle ambiguity and critically analyse the wicked problems we face. Richard’s vision is that the programme is the first step on these students’ journey to achieve better, more equal health outcomes across populations and national boundaries.
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Lifestyle Medicine and Prevention Team
Dr Christopher-James Harvey
Senior Strategic Teaching Fellow
Head of Academic Tutoring for Phase 1 Medicine
Sleep Topic Lead, Lifestyle Medicine and Prevention
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Primary Care & Public Health
As a Strategic Senior Teaching Fellow, my main focus is the design and delivery of Lifestyle Medicine and Prevention (LMAP). I hold a PhD in Psychological Medicine with a background in cognitive neuroscience. I am also interested in public engagement and have worked with various artists, educational, media and industry partners on developing innovative ways to facilitate the public and policy makers in considering the importance of sleep.
Global Health BSc Team
Dr Mariam Sbaiti
Senior Teaching Fellow, Global Health
Deputy Director & Module 1 Lead, Global Health BSc
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health
Mariam is passionate about collaborative approaches to education and using these to support students to develop critical thinking skills and develop more dynamic and authentic approaches to global health education. I am currently working on an innovative global health education project where I invited a range of partners to design and deliver the curriculum collaboratively. Over the last 2 years, my team worked with students and with colleagues who have professional and lived experiences of healthcare in the Syrian conflict to design authentic learning and assessment activities around this issue. I am passionate about student experience and recently completed a qualitative research project on students’ experiences of global health education which highlighted a discontent with the Western perspectives pervasive in global health resources and teaching.
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Location: G39, Medical School Building, St Mary's Campus
Dr Shyam Sundar Budhathoki
Senior Teaching Fellow in Global Health
Module Co-ordinator & Module 2b Lead, Global Health BSc
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Primary Care & Public Health
Shyam is a medical doctor specialised in Community Medicine and Tropical diseases trained in China and Nepal. He has extensive experiences leading public health teaching and placements for undergraduate health sciences students for home and international students in Nepal. Shyam coordinates the Global Health BSc course and leads the Community Group Placements (CGP) scheme in the Science in Context (SiC) module of the course. Shyam believes that the CGP partnership between Imperial College and community based organisations in its true sense is an experiential learning partnership to mutually share expertise and strengthen the critical thinking, reasoning and problem-solving skills of global health students. Shyam has a wide range of research experience in health literacy, health promotion, sexual and reproductive health, child health and health systems research focusing in underprivileged population and LMIC settings. With a passion for contributing to scientific community, Shyam performs roles as Academic Editor for PLoS One Journal and Associate Editor for BMC Women’s Health.
Ambar Qavi
Teaching Fellow & BMB Module Lead, Global Health
Affiliations: School of Public Health, Primary Care & Public Health
Ambar is a Teaching Fellow in the school of Public Health and works across three public health degree programmes; GMPH, MPH and the BSc Global Health. Ambar is also the module lead for the Global Health short course delivered in the BMB degree programme.
Ambar has research experience in the field of health systems development, access to medicines and HIV. She has worked alongside organisations such as WHO, UNITAID and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). Ambar is keen to help students understand global health issues through the lens of disparate disciplines such as economics, medicine, epidemiology and anthropology.
Dr Thomas Hone
Research Fellow & Module 2a Lead, Global Health BSc
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit
Thomas is a Research Fellow at Imperial. His research focuses on health systems and public health policy in LMICs. He has a particular focus on Latin America, Primary Healthcare, health system financing, and health inequalities. He has a PhD in Public Health and has an emphasis on quantitative and quasi-experimental methods in his research.
Thomas is keen to help students maximize their skills as future consumers and producers of evidence for global health. Module 2a is great opportunity to build skills in reviewing and critiquing studies, balancing conflicting evidence, and producing policy-relevant and informative outputs.
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Location: Reynolds Building, Charing Cross Campus
Undergraduate Public Health Education course administrator
Ms Beatrix Rozsa
Undergraduate Education Administrator
Affiliations: School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine
Beatrix is responsible for administering the planning and delivery of all operational aspects of the BSc Global Health course (MBBS Year 4) since May 2016.
Previous roles are at Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust as Course administrator (CYAF courses) and Administrator supervisor. Beatrix is dedicated to help the education of the next generation of healthcare workers and to enhance student journey.
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Location: Room 169, St Mary’s Campus