Hammad Jeilani is the director and co-founder of a company called Apian, a healthcare startup that is using drones to improve access to healthcare in a faster and environmentally friendly manner.  Hammad is also a NHS clinical entrepreneur, a programme run by NHS England aimed to develop the next generation of leaders to help transform our healthcare system. And on the side he is also a medical student at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. In this episode we discuss Hammad's journey in setting up Apian, the potential that drones have in transforming healthcare delivery and if medical education today is truly reflective of the changing nature of the healthcare in the UK.

Rafia Miah is a final year medical student at the University of Southampton. She has been involved in numerous organisations and last year received a scholarship to be a part of the Healthcare Leadership Academy. Passionate about women’s health she has recently set up an organisation called Amar Doctor, meaning my doctor, an initiative specifically targeted towards Bengali women in the UK which aims to provide educational seminars on a variety of different health-related topics.

Born in Belfast, Dr Philippa Whitford studied medicine in the West of Scotland before specialising in breast surgery. She has been a Consultant Breast Surgeon for 19 years, and is now the MP for Central Ayrshire and the Westminster spokesperson on Health and Europe for the Scottish National Party. Over her career she has studied Breast Cancer Immunology for her MD dissertation, worked as a medical volunteer in Palestine and sat on the Health Select committee.

In this inspiring conversation, Philippa and Zack discuss the misogyny she experienced as a young surgeon in the 1980s, the advantages of gaining experience abroad, whether we need more doctors in front-line politics, the coronavirus pandemic and much more.

Philippa's Links

The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

The Health Gap by Michael Marmot

Twitter - @Dr_PhilippaW 

Music - Overriding Concern by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4187-overriding-concern

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About the host

Zack Hassan is a junior doctor based in Edinburgh and a Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholar. His podcast hosting combines his experience of debating at the Cambridge Union with insights from the NHS front-line.

Twitter – @MontereyZack 

Zack's LinkedIn 

Our Supporters

The Healthcare Leadership Academy has a mission to inspire the next generation of healthcare leaders. They have lots of opportunities on their website for a variety of health professionals, including through HLA Listen, their podcasting channel.

Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West support the podcast by sponsoring HLA Listen.

Medics.Academy is an online platform which provides technology enhanced learning solutions for organisations and individuals.

In this episode of the Guide to Global Health, we will discuss Jackie Corley’s work through the Gender Equity in Global Surgery Initiative. Jackie is a neurosurgery resident physician at Duke and a current research fellow at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. She focuses on global neurosurgery research and global health advocacy and policy to promote health systems strengthening.  Jackie is also a founder and co-president of the Gender Equity Initiative in Global Surgery, which strives to promote gender equity in the surgical, anaesthesia, and obstetric workforce around the world though directed and quality research, effective advocacy, and excellent mentorship. She is also a healthcare contributor for Forbes.com.

In this episode of the Guide to Global Health, we will discuss Ahmed Alboksmaty’s journey from Egypt to the UK as a public health practitioner. Ahmed Alboksmaty is a medical doctor and a research associate in the NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centre at Imperial College London. He has previously worked as a consultant in quality and patient safety for the WHO EMRO and earlier as a Medical Coordinator for a joint project between UNHCR and the Arab Medical Union. In addition, he has been granted some regional and international awards for youth leadership and entrepreneurship in public health.

This final episode of the series focuses on Scholarship. Tinaye Nandi and Med explore the importance of evidence-based leadership and management. We use the story of Ignes Semmelweis to explain the importance of evidence and that good scholarship means ensuring that those you want to learn are encouraged to access information.

The podcast is found here 

https://thehealthcareleadership.academy/podcasts/

The leadernotes here 

https://thehealthcareleadership.academy/the-leadership-blog/

In today's episode, we focus on leadership's underappreciated cousin Followership. We talk about Activist  Bayard Rustin and the importance of followership, in the development of a great leader, his mentee Martin Luther King Junior. We talk about the theory of Leader-follower relationships and how you can be the best type of follower.

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In the weeks' episode, we focussed on learning to innovate from scratch, and how to apply these skills to already existing organisations and products so that you can try this there too. We discussed how Da Vinci worked as a constant innovator and ways to think about innovating a new idea for yourselves, We also talked about  Thomas Eddison's employment of different types of innovation and what those types are.