#62 Training health workers for South Sudan – A transformational ministry
With Dr Anil Cherian
One of the key obstacles to improved healthcare in South Sudan is a lack of trained medical staff. Though the country is larger than France there are reportedly fewer than 200 doctors and most health workers have only very basic training.
This webinar tells of a transformational ministry, led by Dr Anil Cherian, a consultant paediatrician from India and his wife Dr Shalini Cherian, a consultant obstetrician.
Dr Anil Cherian
Anil is a medical doctor who graduated from CMC Vellore, India in 1989. He began his medical career working in a Leprosy hospital and then various Christian mission hospitals. In 1994 he qualified as a Pediatrician, then a Masters of Public Health in Manila, and a Diploma in Health Economics from York. He shifted from Clinical work to Community Health & development then worked as the Mission Coordinator for EMFI training medical, dental and nursing students.
In 2014 Anil and his wife Shalini (Ob-Gyn) moved to Africa to start the ICMDA National Institute of Health Sciences (Jonglei) to train healthcare professionals for South Sudan and worked closely with CMDA South Sudan and CMF Uganda. Anil has been actively involved in other global health initiative including health systems research and has received a number of awards for his work. Shalini and Anil have two sons, Ajay who works as an Architect in the US and Rohan who is undergraduate at the California Baptist University.
