Fellow’s Profile
Elizabeth Anionwu
Fellow’s Profile
Elizabeth Anionwu
Prevention of perinatal mortality and morbidity of sickle cell disease
Biography
Although now retired, I am an emeritus professor of nursing at the University of West London and also a Patron of the Sickle Cell Society. The focus of my Fellowship in 1981 was exploring the impact of sickle cell disease in the Caribbean and the USA. This helped me enormously in my post as the first ever sickle cell nurse specialist in the UK, based in Brent, London.
As a result of my Fellowship I have given many lectures and media interviews and published articles about the condition. I also co-wrote a book with Professor Karl Atkin called The Politics of Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia.
My Fellowship has been very influential in enabling me to become a national and international expert on nursing and sickle cell disease both in the health and voluntary sector. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence in promoting the role of nurses in caring for those affected by this serious and life-threatening inherited blood disorder that primarily affects black and other minority individuals. The Fellowship was an absolute life-changer for me.
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All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
