{"id":1097,"date":"2025-10-13T13:54:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:35:23","slug":"mike-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/2025\/10\/13\/mike-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike English"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p><em><strong>Professor of International Child Health, University of Oxford and KEMRI-Wellcome Programme; UK<\/strong><\/em><\/p><br><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Mike English is a UK trained paediatrician who worked in Kenya for 25 years as part of the KEMRI-Wellcome Nairobi Programme supported by a series of Wellcome fellowships. In Kenya he built up the Health Services Unit working with Ministry of Health, the University of Nairobi, multiple county hospitals and a wide set of national and international collaborators. Mike now co-leads the Health Systems Collaborative\u00a0in Oxford.\u00a0<br><\/span><\/p><br><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">In Kenya Mike established the Kenyan Clinical Information Network (CIN) in 2013 and further developed this platform over 10 years as an example of a low-cost learning health system to implement evidence-based practices, support large scale improvement interventions and conduct large pragmatic clinical trials and observational studies in Africa. From a base in Oxford Mike co-led the HIGH-Q project to examine quality of neonatal care in Kenya, how technologies are used, families experiences of care and how health workforce factors influence these. Mike co-leads a new long-term project on the future of the African First Referral Hospital (the AFRHiCARE Partnership) with a continued focus on quality of care, technologies and the health workforce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">New collaborations are helping to extend work to Vietnam, Burundi, India, UK and Ghana with a strong focus on capacity building of LMIC scientists linked to the launch of a new MSc in Health Services Improvement and Evaluation (HSIE).<\/span><\/p><br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of International Child Health, University of Oxford and KEMRI-Wellcome Programme; UKMike English is a UK trained paediatrician who worked in Kenya for 25 years as part of the KEMRI-Wellcome Nairobi Programme supported by a series of Wellcome fellowships. In Kenya he built up the Health Services Unit working with Ministry of Health, the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}