Currently in development by a team of leading academics from the University of Oxford,
Life-saving Instruction For Emergencies (LIFE) is a mobile gaming app designed to
provide vital emergency care training to remote communities in sub-Saharan Africa
We hope to raise £100k through crowdfunding to develop and test a prototype of LIFE
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Meet Our Team
Mike English
Prof. International Child Health, University of Oxford
Mike has worked in Kenya for 20 years with time spent running district hospital paediatric and neonatal services, providing clinical teaching and undertaking research supported largely by The Wellcome Trust. Throughout this time he has worked for Oxford University in an international capacity and is an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College.
His team has led development of national, evidence-based guidelines for care of severely ill children and newborns in Kenya since 2005 and he has contributed to similar guidance produced by WHO. To implement these best practices Mike and colleagues developed the ETAT+ course for doctors, clinical officers, nurses and students. The training is based on locally relevant scenarios to teach emergency care and disease management protocols and draws on experiences of training over 7000 people. The course has been carefully evaluated is now offered in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, Somaliland and other countries.
The course targets care of the main causes of neonatal and child deaths and limited access to this essential training prompted early development of LIFE to meet this large unmet need.
Chris Paton
Clinical Informatics - University of Oxford
Chris leads the Global Health Informatics group at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Tropical Medicine. The group investigates the use of health IT systems in low-resource settings and is conducting a survey of Electronic Health Records systems in use in public hospitals in Kenya.
He trained as a medical doctor in the UK and was a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Auckland in New Zealand before joining the University of Oxford.
He is also the founder of the Health Informatics Forum (www.healthinformaticsforum.com), an online community of 9,000 health informatics professionals. The Forum hosts 20 online learning courses with over 130 hours of recorded lectures on a wide range of health informatics topics.
Hilary Edgcombe
Consultant Anaesthetist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Hilary Edgcombe is a consultant anaesthetist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, having trained previously in Oxford, Birmingham and Australia. She has long-standing interests in and commitments to the provision of safe anaesthesia, peri-operative care and resuscitation in the low-resource setting. She currently directs training courses for international anaesthetists working in resource-poor settings (based in Uganda) and has wide experience teaching health professionals in both low- and high-income countries.
In the UK she is affiliated with the University of Oxford's Centre for Simulation, Teaching and Research (OxSTAR) where she trains a variety of learners using high-fidelity simulation, and she is also currently completing an MSc in Global Health at King’s College, London with particular focus on surgical services worldwide.
Grace Irimu
Consultant Paediatrician, Nairobi
Grace helped develop the ETAT+ course, the wide set of trainers now operating in Kenya, and embed the training into the undergraduate curriculum. She is a senior member of the Kenya Paediatric Association that has helped provide the ETAT+ course in Kenya and the East African region since 2008. She plays a major role in working to improve paediatric care across Kenya and has conducted research on how to implement best practices in routine care. With 20 years' experience of teaching all types of health workers, she is acutely aware of the need for up-to-date knowledge and the limited ability of current approaches to meet this need.
John Wachira
Paediatrician and Chairperson of the National Resuscitation Council of Kenya
John helped develop the ETAT+ course in 2005/6 and has experience of running many emergency care courses in Kenya, including EPLS, ATLS, ALSO, and the Generic Instructor Course. He has trained widely across East Africa and has been the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK) East African Coordinator for delivering ETAT+ training in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda.
Jakob Rossner
Digital Designer and Developer, University of Oxford
Jakob Rossner is a Digital Designer and Developer for the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford. Jakob comes from a background of science, digital media production and game design. He takes a keen interest in educational games and edutainment. His areas of expertise are entail 3D visualization, Prototyping, Animation, User experience design, graphic design, UnrealEngine and mobile application development. He has recently developed a mobile game called ‘The Life Cycle of Malaria’ for the android platform.