Trust colleagues celebrate international health and care workers
Leaders from across West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership came together to celebrate the contribution of internationally educated (diaspora) health and care workers at the Diaspora Healthcare Champion Awards on Tuesday 18 March 2025.
Three colleagues from our Trust attended the event in recognition of our commitment to supporting internationally educated colleagues and ongoing work on global health which is being undertaken in the organisation.
They were chief medical officer Subha Thiyagesh, consultant psychiatrist Rajarshi Das, and medical staffing advisor Amanda Conway.
The Diaspora Healthcare Champion Awards are run by Global Health Partnerships. They honour the contribution of our international workforce, whose global knowledge, experience, and connections help shape innovative approaches to reducing health inequalities, providing outstanding care and improving people’s health and wellbeing.
Agam Jung, Consultant in Neurology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, was presented with a Diaspora Healthcare Champion Award at the event in recognition of her outstanding achievements, including developing the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease, supporting international medical graduates to flourish in the UK, and work in global health to reduce the burden of neurological diseases. You can read more about Agam’s story here. Oliver Hwindingwi owner of Malachi Care Services in West Yorkshire attended as runner up, in recognition of his work with the Zimbabwe Life Project developing mental health care in Zimbabwe.
