Women in Leadership – Global Health Series: An introduction from the curator by Florence Kinder Strong and representative leadership in Global Health ventures is vital, both from national and international staff. In order to promote sustainable global health improvement, it is essential, that leadership, particularly from international staff […]
Redefining Success by Tayyib Goolamallee I started my journey with The HLA Leadership Blog 2 years ago, and what a journey it has been. To see this blog through to our 100 pieces milestone is one of my proudest accomplishments, and it has been fraught with important, unintentional […]
A Baptism of Fire – Reflections of a Class of Corona Doctor by Chris Grieco I would like to share my account and some reflections of what it was like to start work during a pandemic, to have my studies cut short and elective cancelled. Date: Friday 13th (I […]
Reflections on the HLA 20 Conference by Simon Phillips How to sum up the experience of organising a conference in 2020 in 600ish words is presenting something of a challenge, particularly if I want to keep it pithy and interesting. For reasons that don’t need to be stated for […]
Narrative Medicine: How storytelling could improve patient care by Elisha De-Alker As I looked into the eyes of the woman sat opposite me I saw hope. I saw a determination to get better. I saw a daughter who had cared for thirteen siblings. I saw a wife who had […]
Making impact the priority by Jade Okene and Olamide Dada Upon joining the HLA Programme, Melanin Medics had existed for just over two years during which we had experienced tremendous growth and expansion of our activities. The focus of the organisation when founded in 2017 was to function as […]
New People, Old Systems – Breaking Hierarchy: Leading from the bottom by Osman M. Ali Graduating from medical school was the happiest day of my life thus far. It sounds cliché, but I genuinely dreamed of becoming a doctor since I was a child. However, it was […]
Reflections – Lessons from a pandemic by Mayowa Osinibi 2020 is a year for the history books. The Australian bush fires seem like an age away, and COVID-19 may have changed the way that health care is provided and received forever. Currently, as the daily death […]
Reflections – From a leadership fellowship: Belonging, Being valued, Beginning anew by Michelle Horridge Bossy. Confident. Self-Assured. Words I’d heard used to describe me throughout my childhood and adolescence. School hockey captain, prefect, managing director of our Young Enterprise company, I was always drawn to […]
Reflections – Finding leadership in the process and not the goal by Shefali Parikh The last eight months as a Clinical Leadership Fellow have been an absolute rollercoaster – ups and downs with a tangible fear of falling off. I hated the fellowship year to start […]