Elizabeth Khadija Tissingh is a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon and leads King’s Global Health Partnerships’ work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A King’s alumnus (Medicine 2008), she also has an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is committed to the delivery of excellent surgical care in the NHS and to improving access to safe, timely and affordable surgery in areas of the world where it is most needed.