The Post Graduate Diploma in Global Health Research is guided by a dedicated team of academics, lecturers, tutors, and administrative staff. Each member is committed to delivering the course with professionalism, convenience, and excellence.

 

Professor Trudie Lang, Academic Lead

Trudie spent the first 12 years of her career in the pharmaceutical industry where she ran clinical trials from phase I through to phase IV in malaria, helminth infectious and diarrheal disease in Africa, Asia and South America. Trudie has worked within the varied settings of industry, public private partnerships, the World Health Organisation, NGOs and academia where she has designed and operated clinical studies in highly varied international settings, particularly in low resource areas within vulnerable populations. Trudie is now focused on developing research capacity and improving research methods in developing countries. She devised The Global Health Network which is a global decentralised franchise network that is driving equity in where research happens, who leads and who benefits from the evidence. It works by transferring know-how and exchanging knowledge between organisations, disease areas, regions, and roles and by guiding faster and improved research processes. This platform is working online and, in the regions, to improve and encourage clinical research in places, situations and places where research is lacking, such as diseases of poverty and outbreaks.

Dr Elizabeth Allen, Course Director

Elizabeth is a pharmacist by background with an MPH and PhD Clinical Pharmacology. She worked in the UK and South African pharmaceutical industries, then academic clinical research, leading operations for the University of Cape Town’s MRC Collaborating Centre for Optimising Antimalarial Therapy, overseeing all types of clinical studies and methodology research. Until recently she was Strategic Partnerships Lead for The Global Health Network, contributing to enabling equity in health research by improving methods, building careers and sharing knowledge. In other roles, she has managed the Southern African Regional Centre for the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, working on individual patient data meta-analyses and capacity for equitable data sharing. She is co-lead for the UK MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership Global Health Working Group, is on the International Scientific Committee for VolREthics, an initiative proposing good practices to protect healthy volunteers in research, and she teaches and supervises post-graduate students in pharmacovigilance and trial conduct.