Some fantastic news just in from Malawi where Abi Merriel, Ammalife Research Fellow, has just been awarded the very sought after Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Anne Boutwood Travelling Fellowship! She is the only UK trainee in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology to have been awarded the prize of £5000 this year. The funding will enable Abi [...]
Stanley Daudi, Ammalife Bursary holder, is about to begin his final year at medical school in Tanzania. This year Stanley will be working in some of Dar Es Salaam's busiest hospitals. His studies cover Internal Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynaecology. We asked Stanley about some of the challenges he'd faced last year. In addition to the [...]
Great freshers fair at the University of Birmingham this year - thank you to everyone for signing up! We look forward to a fantastic year of events to support Ammalife!
This year's University of Birmingham's Community Day was so much fun - a happy day where we met and made friends with new supporters. Today we're at Freshers Fair - we're hoping to recruit many more young people as advocates for mothers around our #loveanothermother campaign.
That’s how long it took 27 members of Birmingham University’s Wilderness Society to complete the gruelling three peaks challenge - climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon in under 24 hours in support of Ammalife! If driving 462 miles and climbing a total of 3407m in 24 hours was not challenging enough, life threw in heavy [...]
Summer is here and we're looking forward to a fun and relaxing evening of musical entertainment at St Mary's church in Moseley, Birmingham on Thursday 27th August. The King's Men are the adult members of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. They gave their first tour performance in Birmingham last year, to a rapturous reception at a [...]
Show your love on Mother's Day and share your care for another mother with this lovely idea dreamt up by Ammalife's student supporters. It's so simple and we know your mum will glow with pride when she sees what you're doing. How's it work? Share a photo of your mum on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram Add [...]
Do you remember GLOWing in 2013? We can't wait for the next chance to catch up with conference delegates old and new on Wednesday 4th March, in celebration of International Women's Day. GLOW is for academics and postgraduate students engaged in global maternal, newborn, child and reproductive health. The annual GLOW conference provides an opportunity for academics [...]
Amie Wilson PhD was Ammalife's first researcher and the work she did continues to have impact and influence policy. Now her work on Emergency Transport has been quoted in the Translating Research into Practice Series published by Harvard University's Maternal Health Task Force. The MHTF disseminates evidence and information to policy makers worldwide. We're very pleased [...]
The wonderful people who work at Birmingham Women's Hospital are the link! Today, they raised £272 to help midwives at the Chatinka Maternity Unit (Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Malawi) refurbish part of the Labour Ward. That's enough to buy sheets for the mattresses and curtains for the cubicles. But it's much more than a makeover - these [...]
