The coverage highlights an £8.4 million gift from the Fondation Docteur Sadok Besrour to the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, which will establish the Dr Sadok Besrour Professorship of Global Primary Care and the Besrour Centre for Global Primary Care within NDPCHS.
The Oxford Mail, Oxford Times and This is Oxford articles explored how the new centre will focus on expanding access to high-quality, evidence-based primary care worldwide, particularly in low and middle-income countries. The gift will also fund fellowships and scholarships for emerging healthcare leaders, as well as an annual global forum to encourage international collaboration.
Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh, Head of Department, and Professor Irene Tracey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, both welcomed the donation as a major step forward in the University’s global health work.
Dr Luke Allen, co-Director of the current Global Primary Care & Future Health Systems team in the Department, spoke about the initiative in a TV interview on That’s TV Oxfordshire, helping explain the importance of global primary care and the impact this new centre aims to make.
You can read the Oxford Mail article here, the This is Oxford article here, and watch Dr Allen’s interview on That’s TV here.