Rola Hallam

Rola Hallam is an award-winning British-Syrian consultant anaesthetist, humanitarian, international advocate and speaker and the founder of CanDo; a social enterprise that allows local humanitarians opportunity to provide healthcare to their own war-affected communities. She is a 2018 TED Fellow.

Rola Hallam
Born
United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of London
Known forMedical activism
Websitehttps://www.candoaction.org/

Early life and education

Hallam knew she wanted to be a doctor since she was a child.[1] She arrived in the UK aged eleven speaking no English.[2] Her father was a gynaecologist in Cambridgeshire.[2] She studied medicine at the University of London and graduated in 2003.[3] She was a registrar and education fellow at the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where she specialised in Global Health.[4]

Career

Hallam practises medicine in the UK, where she is a consultant anaesthetist.[5] She worked at the Royal Free Hospital.[6] In 2007 she travelled to Ethiopia as a volunteer with Health Volunteers Overseas teaching on a Masters course for nurse anaesthetists and then working in development of paediatric health services with local health providers, building capacity and conducting research on how to best manage critically ill children with pneumonia with Professor Katherine Maitland and Imperial college london.[1] She has also worked in hospitals near Aleppo.[1]

In 2011, when war first broke out in Syria, Hallam became involved in the humanitarian response.[7] She became Medical Director of Hand in Hand Syria, a Syrian led, UK registered charity that looked to deliver medical aid in Syria in 2012.[1] Hand in Hand Syria supported 80 field hospitals and a paediatric hospital.[1][2] In 2013 she appeared on Panorama Saving Syria's Children.[8] She is a prominent voice in the news coverage about Syria.[9] She has written for The Lancet, The Guardian The Independent and the Huffington post.[10][11][12][13] She has appeared on The Daily Show, the BBC and SBS.[14][15]

To address the issues she had found within the aid system, she established CanDo, a not-for-profit social enterprise and crowdfunding platform for local humanitarian organisations. CanDo supports and enables local humanitarians to save more lives in war-devastated areas and for people around the world to support cost-effective, locally-led, life-saving health interventions, efficiently and quickly.[16][3] She ran a crowdfunding campaign in 2016 called People's Convoy, which raised more than £250,000 to build a new children's hospital in Syria.[6][17] The Convoy left the UK in December 2016, where it met members of the Independent Doctors Association at the Turkey-Syria border.[18] She was an invited in speaker at the 2017 and 2018 Women in the World conferences, alongside Hillary Clinton.[19][20][21][22][23] In October 2017 she spoke at Google's Zeitgeist Minds.[24][25] In November 2017 she spoke at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, alongside Barack Obama and Naomi Campbell.[26] She has advocated jointly with Physicians for Human Rights and is frequently featured in publications to discuss Syria. She is a guest lecturer at King's College London and the London School of Economics.[25] In January 2018 Hallam was announced as a TED Fellow and her TED talk has had over 1 million views.[27]

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References
  1. "Meet Rola Hallam, Syria - Nobel Women's Initiative". Nobel Women's Initiative. 2015-12-04. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  2. Wall, Imogen (2016-06-15). "The diaspora groups bringing aid to Syria: 'This isn't a job, it's now our life'". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  3. "Wamda". www.wamda.com. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  4. "Dr Rola Hallam FRCA". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  5. "Our team". CanDo. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  6. Association, Press (2016-12-17). "'People's Convoy' leaves London for Syria". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  7. "About us". CanDo. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  8. "Saving Syria's Children documentary". Vimeo. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  9. "War in Syria: Country's health system under attack - France 24". France 24. 2015-02-02. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  10. "Three years on, Syria's everyday heroes still saving lives". The Independent. 2014-03-14. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  11. "Hail to Syria's Heroes". HuffPost UK. 2014-03-12. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  12. Hallam, Dr Rola; McKay, Donna (2016-02-02). "We must not let Syria's health service fail". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  13. Hallam, Rola (2013-08-24). "Response to Syria's health crisis". The Lancet. 382 (9893): 679–680. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61769-9. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 23972803.
  14. "Saving Syria's Children". News. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  15. "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah - Extended - July 25, 2017 - Rola Hallam | Comedy Central". Comedy Central. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  16. "Syria crisis: how aid is changing". ODI. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  17. "War photographer joins Syria convoy". BBC News. 2016-12-17. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  18. Myers, Rebecca (2016-12-17). "British doctors depart for Syria to rebuild children's hospital". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  19. "CanDo Founder Rola Hallam to Share Stage with Hillary Clinton". ResponseSource Press Release Wire. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  20. "Dr. Annie Sparrow & Dr. Rola Hallam Speak For Syria At 2017 Women In The World Summit". Anne of Carversville. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  21. Women in the World (2018-02-14), Women in the World Los Angeles Salon: Dr. Rola Hallam on how 'We all face adversity', retrieved 2018-04-22
  22. Women in the World (2017-04-05), Dr. Rola Hallam on the worst day of her life - treating patients in Syria, retrieved 2018-04-22
  23. "Doctor talks about 'the worst and hardest day of my life' treating severely burned young children in Syria". Women in the World. 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  24. "Rola Hallam". Zeitgeist Minds. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  25. "We Are All Humanitarians". Zeitgeist Minds. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  26. "Dr Rola Hallam, Medical Director, Hand In Hand For Syria". Hindustan Times. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  27. "Meet the 2018 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows". TED Blog. 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
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