Edna Mugwagwa
Edna is originally from Zimbabwe and has also lived in Switzerland and the UK. She pursued an undergraduate degree in Applied Medical Sciences at University College London (UCL). While there, she was part of Students for Global Health UCL and organised and hosted panel discussions on various global health issues. She also worked with a research group that deals with newborn care and mobile health, where she focused on scientific communications via social media. She currently works in communications for a global health NGO based in Switzerland.
When asked which global health challenge she is interested in, this is what Edna had to say: “My passion for global health grew from first-hand experience of under-resourced healthcare systems and realising that an individual’s health and well-being does not exist in a vacuum– it is impacted by global affairs and local economics, history and even culture.”