
Catherine Setchell
Communications Manager, King's Global Health Partnerships
Biography
Catherine has worked in communications for the international development and UK public sectors for 15 years - for a number of organisations including the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the UK government’s Department for Education. Prior to joining KGHP, Catherine worked at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), where she was responsible for the research communications of two global initiatives: Making All Voices Count – a fund supporting innovation and research of digital technologies for more effective democratic governance and accountability around the world; and Participate – a participatory research initiative from 29 countries, aimed at influencing the development of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She has a BA in Anthropology from Durham University and an MPhil in Development Studies with distinction from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
News
King's Global Health Partnerships secures new funding to improve maternal healthcare in Somaliland
King’s Global Health Partnerships is excited to announce new funding from the Alborada Trust to support a two-year project to improve the quality of maternity...
King's Global Health Partnerships Launches Fellowship Programme in Sierra Leone
King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) has introduced an exciting Fellowship programme aimed at improving maternal, child and reproductive health outcomes...
King's Global Health Partnerships launches new health partnership with The Gambia
King’s Global Health Partnerships is delighted to announce an ambitious new partnership in The Gambia, adding to our well-established health partnerships in...
King's students work with the Zambian government to develop breast and cervical cancer services
Global Health MSc students undertook their dissertation research to evaluate cancer services in Ndola, Zambia as part of the government’s plans to...
Working together to address the most pressing global challenges
King’s College London and Qatar Charity have today signed a Letter of Intent to work together to address global challenges, starting with a project to deliver...

Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance in Sierra Leone
King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) and our health partners in Sierra Leone have been awarded funding to support antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) at...

Freetown Explosion: Caring for burn survivors in Sierra Leone
King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) is supporting frontline staff at hospitals in Freetown, who are managing patients with severe burns.
King's students support global health initiatives in four African countries
Student interns with King’s Global Health Partnerships helped improve health systems and quality of care.

King's establishes largest stroke register in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Stroke in Sierra Leone (SISLE) research group has established a stroke register that provides local stroke risk and outcome data, essential to inform the...

King's Global Health Partnerships support Africa's COVID-19 response
King’s Global Health Partnerships are working alongside health workers in Africa to support their response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Features
Progressing Quality Healthcare in Somaliland
King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) is working with Somaliland’s Ministry of Health Development (MoHD) to improve the quality of the healthcare system....
New funding to strengthen postgraduate medical training in five African countries
King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) has successfully secured funding from the CRI Foundation to support the development of postgraduate medical training...

Photo story: Improving quality of healthcare in Somaliland
Photo story depicting the first six months of Somaliland's National Quality Improvement Programme to transform the quality of healthcare that patients receive.

"Nursing for Welbodi": Building nursing care in Sierra Leone
KGHP has supported a programme of work to help build nursing care and improve outcomes for critically unwell patients, by strengthening the provision of...
Emergency care for mothers and babies in Zambia: Challenges and opportunities for improvement
King’s Global Health Partnerships recently is working with health partners in Zambia to improve the survival of mothers and babies in the Copperbelt Province....
Three weeks in a London stroke ward: Dr Melvina Thompson visits from the King's Sierra Leone Partnership
We meet Dr Melvina Thompson from Connaught Hospital in Sierra Leone who shares some of the highlights from her exchange visit to London, where she has been...
Tailor-made solutions: a new burns pressure garment service for Sierra Leone
After a deadly fuel tanker explosion in Freetown last year, Mr Momoh Kenneh, a prosthetics and orthotics technician at the National Rehabilitation Centre,...

Reducing the gap in mental health services in Somaliland
The Government of Somaliland recently published their national plan for mental health. We interviewed Dr Liban Hersi, the Deputy Director for Mental Health in...
Champions for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Sierra Leone
We catch up with one of the early career Pharmacists, Abu Bakarr Sesay who has trained to become an Antimicrobial Stewardship Champion at Connaught Hospital...

Primary Trauma Care training: taking learning beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo
King's Global Health Partnerships and the Kongo Central PTC committee were recently invited to deliver primary trauma care training beyond the DRC, training...
News
King's Global Health Partnerships secures new funding to improve maternal healthcare in Somaliland
King’s Global Health Partnerships is excited to announce new funding from the Alborada Trust to support a two-year project to improve the quality of maternity...
King's Global Health Partnerships Launches Fellowship Programme in Sierra Leone
King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) has introduced an exciting Fellowship programme aimed at improving maternal, child and reproductive health outcomes...
King's Global Health Partnerships launches new health partnership with The Gambia
King’s Global Health Partnerships is delighted to announce an ambitious new partnership in The Gambia, adding to our well-established health partnerships in...
King's students work with the Zambian government to develop breast and cervical cancer services
Global Health MSc students undertook their dissertation research to evaluate cancer services in Ndola, Zambia as part of the government’s plans to...
Working together to address the most pressing global challenges
King’s College London and Qatar Charity have today signed a Letter of Intent to work together to address global challenges, starting with a project to deliver...

Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance in Sierra Leone
King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) and our health partners in Sierra Leone have been awarded funding to support antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) at...

Freetown Explosion: Caring for burn survivors in Sierra Leone
King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) is supporting frontline staff at hospitals in Freetown, who are managing patients with severe burns.
King's students support global health initiatives in four African countries
Student interns with King’s Global Health Partnerships helped improve health systems and quality of care.

King's establishes largest stroke register in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Stroke in Sierra Leone (SISLE) research group has established a stroke register that provides local stroke risk and outcome data, essential to inform the...

King's Global Health Partnerships support Africa's COVID-19 response
King’s Global Health Partnerships are working alongside health workers in Africa to support their response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Features
Progressing Quality Healthcare in Somaliland
King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) is working with Somaliland’s Ministry of Health Development (MoHD) to improve the quality of the healthcare system....
New funding to strengthen postgraduate medical training in five African countries
King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) has successfully secured funding from the CRI Foundation to support the development of postgraduate medical training...

Photo story: Improving quality of healthcare in Somaliland
Photo story depicting the first six months of Somaliland's National Quality Improvement Programme to transform the quality of healthcare that patients receive.

"Nursing for Welbodi": Building nursing care in Sierra Leone
KGHP has supported a programme of work to help build nursing care and improve outcomes for critically unwell patients, by strengthening the provision of...
Emergency care for mothers and babies in Zambia: Challenges and opportunities for improvement
King’s Global Health Partnerships recently is working with health partners in Zambia to improve the survival of mothers and babies in the Copperbelt Province....
Three weeks in a London stroke ward: Dr Melvina Thompson visits from the King's Sierra Leone Partnership
We meet Dr Melvina Thompson from Connaught Hospital in Sierra Leone who shares some of the highlights from her exchange visit to London, where she has been...
Tailor-made solutions: a new burns pressure garment service for Sierra Leone
After a deadly fuel tanker explosion in Freetown last year, Mr Momoh Kenneh, a prosthetics and orthotics technician at the National Rehabilitation Centre,...

Reducing the gap in mental health services in Somaliland
The Government of Somaliland recently published their national plan for mental health. We interviewed Dr Liban Hersi, the Deputy Director for Mental Health in...
Champions for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Sierra Leone
We catch up with one of the early career Pharmacists, Abu Bakarr Sesay who has trained to become an Antimicrobial Stewardship Champion at Connaught Hospital...

Primary Trauma Care training: taking learning beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo
King's Global Health Partnerships and the Kongo Central PTC committee were recently invited to deliver primary trauma care training beyond the DRC, training...