March to July 2020
1. St George’s University of London,UK-Malaysia Medical Initiative,SUMMIT
PPE campaign in East Malaysia.
The Personal Protective Equipment,PPE campaign by SUMMIT from March 2020 to July 2020 in East Malaysia. The campaign started due to the acute shortage of PPE at Lawas Hospital, Sarawak during the COVID-19 pandemic. SUMMIT was made aware at the beginning of the Movement Control Order ,MCO that the frontlines in Lawas Hospital and the community clinics in Lawas needed more PPE to prepare them to see potential COVID-19 patients. We reached out to Miri Hospital (Sarawak), Tenom and Keningau Hospital in Sabah to help supply PPE. Additionally, the community in Lawas were provided with disposable face masks.
SUMMIT reached out to corporations and organisations around Malaysia for sponsorships through social media and networking. We have managed to get the support from
- Tanoti Handicrafts Kuching
- Sinoxxa Sdn Bhd
- Adopt A Healthcare worker Malaysia
- SewforMiri
- Permatang Pauh Women’s Project
Tanoti Handicarfts sew and donated boot covers and hood to Lawas Hospital. Also, Permatang Pauh donated the gloves. The rest of the PPE were sponsored by Sinoxxa and sewn by SewforMiri. Adopt AHelathcare Worker Malaysia is an organisation that we worked closely for sponsorship.
The PPE campaign have provided these hospitals in Sarawak and Sabah with
- 8700 isolation gowns
- 500 boot covers
- 500 hoods
- 15000 disposable face masks
- 500 disposable gloves
- 600 face shields.
2. Action Against Hunger Lawas, Sarawak Campaign
At the beginning of the Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia, SUMMIT have been working with a team of community champions on Lawas, Sarawak. We formed a Non-Governmental Organisation called ‘Action Against Hunger Lawas’ to distribute food parcels to the B40 community around Lawas. SUMMIT coordinated the fundraising, communication with donors and social media work. Through out the period of 4 months, we raised a total of MYR175,000 (£35,000) including around 200 boxes of infant formula milk. The food parcels consist of essential food such as rice, bread, cans of sardine and eggs. 
‘Multidisciplinary Obstetric and Midwifery Simulation’ (MOMS) Workshop - NOVEMBER 2019
Early November 2019, St George’s University of London, UK – Malaysia Medical Initiative (SUMMIT) organised an obstetric emergency workshop called MOMS. SUMMIT worked collaboratively with East London Ladies International Health (ELLY) Charity and Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia to run two workshops in Lawas and Miri in Sarawak, East Malaysia. A faculty consisting of six obstetric doctors and four midwives from London, Australia and New Zealand conducted the workshop.
A total of 105 delegates comprising midwives, community nurses, Obstetric specialist and medical officers attended both workshops. The MOMS workshop consisted of a series of lectures based on MOH Malaysia and international guidelines, followed by interactive skill stations, which encouraged active participation amongst all members of the multidisciplinary team. At the end of the workshop, 31 delegates were chosen to attend ‘Train the Trainers’ course held in Hospital Miri. The faculty who are internationally acclaimed in their field are keen to offer this course annually and expand it to more hospitals and regions.
Top: Delegates and faculty members MOMs. Bottom L-R: Simulation station in Lawas , Simulation station in Miri
Top: Fakulty MOMs and SUMMIT. Bottom L-R: Lecture in Miri , YB DrMichael Teo giving out certificates for ‘Train the Trainers’. For more photos,link The workshop gained extensive press coverage from RTM Sarawak and Utusan Sarawak.
1. Featured on the 8th of November 2019 on RTM https://www.facebook.com/734344203606872/posts/954773414897282?vh=e&d=n&sfns=mo
2. Featured on the 10th of November 2019 on RTM https://youtu.be/XFl0ZygkcWA
3. Featured on Utusan Sarawak 12th of November 2019 by Adum Liu
QuantuMDx Meeting in Malaysia, February 2019
SUMMIT has been working collaboratively on the point of care diagnostics for global medicine with a particular focus on infectious disease and cancer. The first initiative catalysed by this programme has been to link development of an affordable novel point of care for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) detection for industrial development and clinical implementation in Malaysia. The developers of this device are a UK based rapidly growing and highly innovative company called QuantaMDx with whom St George’s University of London have had longstanding partnership to develop diagnostics for ‘Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs).
The fruition of this collaboration is an opportunity to partner also with Malaysian led initiatives on e-health and patient self sampling through the world class ‘Pogram ROSE’ (patient self-sampling HPV screening for cervical cancer). These development could not have been accelerated without the excellent meeting held between QuantaMDx and the Deputy Minister of International Trade Industry (MIDA), the Director of Health Malaysia , the British High Commission in Malaysia and our academic partners at University of Malaya took place in February 2019. Currently there are 2 simultaneous consolidation initiatives:
- Investments opportunities for manufacturing in Malaysia
- Development of validation studies for these diagnostic initiatives in Malaysian patient cohorts
QuantuMDx Chief' Scientist, Dr Jonathan O’Halloran presenting to Director General Health Malaysia, Dato’ Noor Hisham on affordable point of vare diagnostics for HPV.
PROGRAM ROSE , JULY 2019
SUMMIT has been supporting community healtchcare initiatives aim at the B40 cummunity inclduing ‘Program ROSE’ – Removing Obstacle to Cervical Screening (link https://www.programrose.org/), patient led cervical screening for HPV. Recently, the Deputy Prime Minister Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Dr Wan Azizah launched a free cervical screening sponsored by ETIQA with ‘Progam ROSE’ at her constituency, Pandan.
YAB Deputy Prime Minister with Prof Woo from University of Malaya launched Program ROSE with the ETIQA team.
Prof Woo, Consultant Gynaecology Oncology the at the launch
Some of the B40 women who came fro the cervical swab HPV screening.
Similar event was held to the B40 community in Permatang Pauh, Penang by YB Nurul Izzah Anwar and her team from Permatang Pauh Member of Parliament Office and Selangor Properties Berhad (SPB). 
YB Nurul Izzah speaking at her constintuency about the cervicial screening programme.
Dr Yolanda Augustin from SUMMIT (far left) with the Program ROSE team & patients.
MALAYSIAN MP’S VISIT TO INSTITUE OF INFECTION & IMMUNITY, JULY 2019
Professor Julian Ma, the Institue’s Director welcomed Malaysian Member of Parliament, YB Nurul Izzah Anwar to St George’s University of London for a talk on Molecular Pharming and a tour around the labs.
Professor Ma giving his talk during the visit.
YB Nurul Izzah visiting a lab at the Institute.
YB Nurul Izzah during the visit.
NEOART TRIAL FUNDRAISING, AUGUST 2019
Earlier in the year, St George’s Hospital Charity and the NeoART Trial hosted a ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ themed fundraiser at the Mango Tree, Belgravia. We welcomed over 100 guests for a drinks reception and delicious three course meal, a live and silent auction, a fashion show and live music from ‘Chinese Elvis’. A brilliant night was had by all and we are incredibly grateful to Eddie and Joyce Lim and their amazing team at Mango Tree for generously hosting the evening.On the night we raised over £18,000 in support of the NeoART Trial, researching innovative cures for bowel cancer with the aim of enhancing the lives of thousands of people living with the disease. This goes towards our grand total of £35,000 raised for the NeoART Trial so far in 2019. To find out more, please visit NeoART Trial(link http://www.neoarttrial.org/).
21st of June 2019
SUMMIT had the honour of meeting the newly appointed Malaysian High Commissioner to the UK, His Excellency Datuk Sadik Kethergany on Friday, 21st of June 2019. We discussed SUMMIT’s objectives, current and future plans to work with the Malaysian government in health care. The ambassador have also invited the team to give a talk to the ambassadors wives in the near future.
From L-R back row; Mr Jesse Quiban- First Secretary, Miss Naseem Ghazali- Consultant Oral Maxillofacial/ Head and Neck Oncology & Reconstructive Surgeon at Royal Blackburn Hospital, Siti Fauzi- Biomedical scientist, Dr Yolanda Augustin- SUMMIT Lead and Clinical Oncology Research Fellow at St George's, University of London, Associate Professor Dr Shafie Movamer Zabri - Minister Counsellor Education Malaysia .
From L-R front row ;
Dr Nafeesa Mat Ali - SUMMIT programme coordinator, HE Datuk Sadik and Dr Zainab Kassim - Neonatologist King’s College Hospital.
8th of September 2018, Kuala Lumpur
‘Memorandum of Understanding’ was agreed between the British High Commission in Malaysia and the Malaysian Ministry of Health. Thank you to Dr. Lee Boon Chye, MP Nurul Izzah Anwar, Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad (Health Minister) and Mr. Dave Thomas (British Deputy High Commisioner to Malaysia) with Prof. Sanjeev Krishna and Dr. Yolanda Augustin.
5th of January 2019, London
SUMMIT hosted their first ‘Malaysian Doctors in The UK Networking Brunch’ at the Malaysian Education Centre, Queensborough Terrace in London. Around 40 Malaysian doctors from around the UK came to discuss the Malaysian Trainee Fellowship programme.‘Multidisciplinary Obstetric and Midwifery Simulation’ (MOMS) Workshop - NOVEMBER 2019
Early November 2019, St George’s University of London, UK – Malaysia Medical Initiative (SUMMIT) organised an obstetric emergency workshop called MOMS. SUMMIT worked collaboratively with East London Ladies International Health (ELLY) Charity and Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia to run two workshops in Lawas and Miri in Sarawak, East Malaysia. A faculty consisting of six obstetric doctors and four midwives from London, Australia and New Zealand conducted the workshop.
A total of 105 delegates comprising midwives, community nurses, Obstetric specialist and medical officers attended both workshops. The MOMS workshop consisted of a series of lectures based on MOH Malaysia and international guidelines, followed by interactive skill stations, which encouraged active participation amongst all members of the multidisciplinary team. At the end of the workshop, 31 delegates were chosen to attend ‘Train the Trainers’ course held in Hospital Miri. The faculty who are internationally acclaimed in their field are keen to offer this course annually and expand it to more hospitals and regions.
QuantuMDx Meeting in Malaysia, February 2019
SUMMIT has been working collaboratively on the point of care diagnostics for global medicine with a particular focus on infectious disease and cancer. The first initiative catalysed by this programme has been to link development of an affordable novel point of care for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) detection for industrial development and clinical implementation in Malaysia. The developers of this device are a UK based rapidly growing and highly innovative company called QuantaMDx with whom St George’s University of London have had longstanding partnership to develop diagnostics for ‘Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). The fruition of this collaboration is an opportunity to partner also with Malaysian led initiatives on e-health and patient self sampling through the world class ‘Pogram ROSE’ (patient self-sampling HPV screening for cervical cancer). These development could not have been accelerated without the excellent meeting held between QuantaMDx and the Deputy Minister of International Trade Industry (MIDA), the Director of Health Malaysia , the British High Commission in Malaysia and our academic partners at University of Malaya took place in February 2019. Currently there are 2 simultaneous consolidation initiatives: 1. Investments opportunities for manufacturing in Malaysia2. Development of validation studies for these diagnostic initiatives in Malaysian patient cohorts
QuantuMDx Chief' Scientist, Dr Jonathan O’Halloran presenting to Director General Health Malaysia, Dato’ Noor Hisham on affordable point of vare diagnostics for HPV.
PROGRAM ROSE , JULY 2019
SUMMIT has been supporting community healtchcare initiatives aim at the B40 cummunity inclduing ‘Program ROSE’ – Removing Obstacle to Cervical Screening (link https://www.programrose.org/), patient led cervical screening for HPV. Recently, the Deputy Prime Minister Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Dr Wan Azizah launched a free cervical screening sponsored by ETIQA with ‘Progam ROSE’ at her constituency, Pandan.
YAB Deputy Prime Minister with Prof Woo from University of Malaya launched Program ROSE with the ETIQA team.
Prof Woo, Consultant Gynaecology Oncology the at the launch
Some of the B40 women who came fro the cervical swab HPV screening.
Similar event was held to the B40 community in Permatang Pauh, Penang by YB Nurul Izzah Anwar and her team from Permatang Pauh Member of Parliament Office and Selangor Properties Berhad (SPB).
YB Nurul Izzah speaking at her constintuency about the cervicial screening programme.
Dr Yolanda Augustin from SUMMIT (far left) with the Program ROSE team & patients.
MALAYSIAN MP’S VISIT TO INSTITUE OF INFECTION & IMMUNITY, JULY 2019 Professor Julian Ma, the Institue’s Director welcomed Malaysian Member of Parliament, YB Nurul Izzah Anwar to St George’s University of London for a talk on Molecular Pharming and a tour around the labs.
Professor Ma giving his talk during the visit.
YB Nurul Izzah visiting a lab at the Institute.
YB Nurul Izzah during the visit.
NEOART TRIAL FUNDRAISING, AUGUST 2019 Earlier in the year, St George’s Hospital Charity and the NeoART Trial hosted a ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ themed fundraiser at the Mango Tree, Belgravia. We welcomed over 100 guests for a drinks reception and delicious three course meal, a live and silent auction, a fashion show and live music from ‘Chinese Elvis’. A brilliant night was had by all and we are incredibly grateful to Eddie and Joyce Lim and their amazing team at Mango Tree for generously hosting the evening.On the night we raised over £18,000 in support of the NeoART Trial, researching innovative cures for bowel cancer with the aim of enhancing the lives of thousands of people living with the disease. This goes towards our grand total of £35,000 raised for the NeoART Trial so far in 2019. To find out more, please visit NeoART Trial(link http://www.neoarttrial.org/).
21st of June 2019
SUMMIT had the honour of meeting the newly appointed Malaysian High Commissioner to the UK, His Excellency Datuk Sadik Kethergany on Friday, 21st of June 2019. We discussed SUMMIT’s objectives, current and future plans to work with the Malaysian government in health care. The ambassador have also invited the team to give a talk to the ambassadors wives in the near future.
From L-R back row; Mr Jesse Quiban- First Secretary, Miss Naseem Ghazali- Consultant Oral Maxillofacial/ Head and Neck Oncology & Reconstructive Surgeon at Royal Blackburn Hospital, Siti Fauzi- Biomedical scientist, Dr Yolanda Augustin- SUMMIT Lead and Clinical Oncology Research Fellow at St George's, University of London, Associate Professor Dr Shafie Movamer Zabri - Minister Counsellor Education Malaysia .
From L-R front row ;
Dr Nafeesa Mat Ali - SUMMIT programme coordinator, HE Datuk Sadik and Dr Zainab Kassim - Neonatologist King’s College Hospital.
8th of September 2018, Kuala Lumpur
‘Memorandum of Understanding’ was agreed between the British High Commission in Malaysia and the Malaysian Ministry of Health. Thank you to Dr. Lee Boon Chye, MP Nurul Izzah Anwar, Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad (Health Minister) and Mr. Dave Thomas (British Deputy High Commisioner to Malaysia) with Prof. Sanjeev Krishna and Dr. Yolanda Augustin.
5th of January 2019, London
SUMMIT hosted their first ‘Malaysian Doctors in The UK Networking Brunch’ at the Malaysian Education Centre, Queensborough Terrace in London. Around 40 Malaysian doctors from around the UK came to discuss the Malaysian Trainee Fellowship programme.