Team Members
Dr Ted Lankester, Co-Founder and Director
In the 1980s Ted worked in the Himalayas, setting up health programmes in mountain villages and refugee camps. Now, as well as being Director of Health Services at InterHealth, he co-leads the Community Health Global Network (CHGN), is an external lecturer at Oxford University department of Primary Health and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and is a regular speaker at international conferences on both travel medicine and global health. Ted is a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Ted has written several books including The Travellers Good Health Guide 2006, the Berlitz Travel Health Pocket Guide 2007, various textbook chapters on travel medicine, and Setting up Community Health Programmes: a practical manual for use in developing countries, Macmillan 3rd Revised Edition 2008. He is married with three daughters and his interests include travel, cross country running, health care mission and biodiversity.
Zannah Jeffreys, Operations Manager
Zannah previously worked for Tearfund, both in the UK-based Advocacy Group and overseas. Whilst in India, she gained a diploma in Community Health from CRHP, Jamkhed, and worked on health projects in the slums and brothels of Mumbai for Oasis. Following the tsunami in December 2004, she worked for Tearfund's Disaster Management Team in Banda Aceh and Meulaboh, Indonesia, setting up a programme office, recruiting project staff and developing health education resources. In 2007, she completed a two month Admin and HR training assignment in the DRC. Zannah lives in London, but relishes the opportunity to visit health programmes worldwide. She enjoys sports, the great outdoors and spending quality time with her family & friends.
Elizabeth Wainwright, Website & Communications Coordinator
Elizabeth has worked for charities both in the UK and in Africa, specifically on education and livelihood projects. She holds an MSc in International Development, for which she researched how best to rehabilitate children following conflict in Northern Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya. She has increasingly been involved in the communication of development work and global issues, and amongst other roles, has been Deputy Editor on the UK's longest-running environmental magazine. She has recently completed a Photojournalism accreditation with the National Council for the Training of Journalists, and alongside working part time for CHGN, is building her freelance Photojournalism work. She believes in the power of community-based health care, having been an auxiliary nurse herself with the NHS, and having volunteered with health projects in Africa. She has three chickens, loves travel and music, has recently discovered she quite enjoys trail running, and drinks a lot of tea from around the world.
Dr Nathan Grills (MBBS, DPhil, MPH, AFPHM)
Nathan is a Public Health Physician undertaking NHMRC post-doctoral fellowship work through the Nossal Institute of Global Health. He will be exploring the effectiveness of networking between Community Health Programs. He will use social network analysis to explore linking with the government health system, linking to undertake training programmes, and linking to improve the health outreach in the state. As a participant observer with one such network in North India, the CHGN Uttarakhand Cluster, he will be coordinating network wide health programmes. These include an anti-tobacco programme, a disability awareness programme and various training activities..
Nathan did his medical training at Monash University before moving to Oxford under a Rhodes' scholarship to undertake a DPhil in Public Health researching Community Health and HIV in India. Additionally he has worked with CDC (India) and then WHO (HQ) exploring the civil society and faith based response to HIV-AIDS in India. Nathan has worked in health in Nepal, Fiji, India, PNG, Tanzania, Kenya and Thailand. He also completed the Victorian Dept. of Human Services Public Health Fellow scheme from 2008-2010. In 2009, Nathan was awarded Endeavour Fellowship, an NHMRC post-doctorate fellowship, and Rowden White College of Physicians Fellowship.
