Congratulations to Dr Kizanne James-McCarthy who recently won the Rising Star Accolade from the University of Southampton’s Inaugural Outstanding Alumni Awards.
Kizanne, who is now based in Chalmers Sexual Health Centre in Edinburgh, is a multi-award-winning leader, Chevening Scholar, women’s rights and health activist, and physician with a passion for global health. She has been promoting family planning since she was at medical school through activities including voluntary talks on sexual health at institutions including prisons and developing a phone app and website giving information about contraception. As a student at Southampton University she shared her insights into using digital health as a tool to improve sexual health in the global south on the TEDx Reading stage.
The Rising Star Award is presented to an alumnus who graduated from Southampton no more than five years ago, and who has made an outstanding contribution in their field or to society.
Dr Kizanne James-McCarthy commented, “I feel absolutely honoured to receive this award and to represent the work being done to support sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. I am proud to work at Lothian Sexual Health Services, at a time when reproductive health and rights are being threatened and stripped away across the globe. I would like to thank my mentors Chris Stirling, Aris Tryothoulakis and Elaine Lawther, and my line managers Tuija Tengavall, Lorraine Chance, and Sharon Cameron for sharing their knowledge and wisdom helping me to become a future leader here at NHS in Scotland.”
