I am an anaesthetist and the Oxford University Global Surgery Group Clinical Fellow. I have been involved in global health for around 10 years with individual lecture trips, clinical work as part of the Basingstoke Hoima Partnership for Health and clinical teaching and service provision for surgical camps in Uganda, Malawi and Sierra Leone. More recently I spent around 8 months working with the group Freedom from fistula in both Sierra Leone and Malawi working on obstetric fistula and emergency obstetric surgery as well as Lifebox teaching, clinical governance and theatre development projects.