Amref Health Africa UK in partnership with Wolfson College are pleased to invite you to a thought-provoking panel discussion at The Buttery room in Wolfson College, University of Oxford.



Amref’s Group CEO, Dr Githinji Gitahi, will be joined by guest speakers to discuss emerging challenges to health systems in Africa - pandemics, non-communicable diseases and climate change – and how they can be addressed.



A Q&A session will take place after the discussion, followed by some light refreshments.

Simon was appointed as Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma at the University of Oxford, in 2022. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedics at the University of Liverpool. He also works as a Major Trauma and Limb Reconstruction Consultant Surgeon at Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust. Simon completed a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research PhD Fellowship at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Edinburgh. His project investigated fracture healing in HIV positive patients and was awarded the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian Professorship and Syme Medal. He also has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Leeds. Professor Graham's research focuses on advancing higher standards of care in musculoskeletal trauma in low- and middle-income countries. He is actively involved with research in musculoskeletal trauma across sub-Saharan Africa and leads The Orthopaedic Research Collaboration for Africa (ORCA), a collaboration dedicated to improving musculoskeletal healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa through research. He has also published widely and presented his research internationally.

President Sir Tim Hitchens will be in conversation with Cara Fellow and Wolfson Alumnus Shaharzad Akbar.

The collapse of Kabul and Taliban's military takeover uprooted Shaharzad and her family like thousands of Afghans & forced a new start, personally & professionally. In the past year in exile, she has been reflecting about the human rights movement of Afghanistan, the way forward in face of the current human rights crisis, the international response and implications beyond Afghanistan. She will share how these reflections will inform her ongoing work & her understanding of the global movement for human rights. 

Shaharzad was the Chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission until August 2021 when the Taliban took power. Now based in Wolfson, and building a new international NGO to support human rights in Afghanistan, Shaharzad will talk about the situation in the country and her own story. Oxford’s first female Afghan graduate, her own narrative tells the story of her country.