Dr Neena Malhotra was a Commonwealth Academic Fellow in 2003, working in Reproductive Medicine at the Assisted Reproductive Unit (ARU) at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital. She was awarded the 2009-2010 Overseas Travel Fund by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology...
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Academic Fellow wins UKIERI research award
Dr Shashikala Inamdar was awarded a Commonwealth Academic Fellowship at the School of Clinical Sciences at the University of Liverpool and she was later selected to present the results of her work at the 23rd Annual Lectin Meeting hosted by the Universities of ...
Professional Fellow awarded funding by UK’s Wellcome Trust to study malaria
Dr Anil Prakash was awarded a Commonwealth Professional Fellowship to work at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester in 2005. There he worked under the mentorship of Dr Catherine Walton on the molecular identification of the mosquito vectors of...
Alumnus’ research may combat cancer and cholesterol
Dr W M P B Weerasinghe (Commonwealth Scholar, PhD Ruminant Nutrition, Harper Adams University College, 2005-2008) has utilised his PhD research in a recent publication. His PhD focused on milk fatty acid production in lactating ewes. Two of the fatty acids have...
Career updates and recent publications
Professor Kawuma Medi (Commonwealth Academic Fellow, Bristol Eye Hospital) has taken up the post of Assistant Deputy Vice- Chancellor (in charge of Hospital Based Academics and Services) at Ishaka Teaching Hospital, Kampala International University, Uganda. Dr Doris N...
Alumnus to address international conference on leading drug research
Professor Henry Lowe (Commonwealth Scholar, MSc Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Manchester) will be speaking at the Eighth Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology in Beijing, China in October. The presentation will focus on work...
Health practitioners benefit from development fellowships
26 public health professionals from developing countries are among the beneficiaries of the 2010 Commonwealth Professional Fellowships scheme, announced today. 56 Professional Fellows in total will work with UK organisations in the public, private and voluntary...
Launch of the ‘Assessing impact in the health sector’ report
The CSC evaluation report Assessing impact in the health sector was launched on 27 May 2010, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Guests included current Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows, members of the CSC's panel of Academic Advisers, supervisors...
Scholarships aid international health targets, says new study
Higher education and international scholarships have made a significant contribution to the achievement of health targets set by the Millennium Development Goals, according to a new report from the DFID-funded Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom,...
Assessing impact in the health sector
This report provides an outline of key development priorities in health and the role of Commonwealth Scholarships in development. The main body of the report considers all of our health-related alumni and the wider impact of health-related awards, before narrowing the...
