In the 1980s he worked in the Himalayas, setting up health programmes in mountain villages and refugee camps. As well as practising at InterHealth, Ted now co-leads the Community Health Global Network (CHGN), is a regular speaker at international conferences on both travel medicine and global health, and does consultancy work with WHO and other organizations. Ted is a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Previously, Ted served as a Tearfund trustee and board member for 9 years, and as Assistant Editor of Tropical Doctor. Ted has been a council member of Global Connections, a Board Member and Trustee of People in Aid and was until recently, on the Advisory board of NaTHNac, the government body responsible for regulating the healthcare of tourists and travellers. Ted lectures at several university courses on Primary Health care in Developing Countries.
Ted has written several books including The Travellers Good Health Guide 2006, the Berlitz Travel Health Pocket Guide 2007, various textbook chapters on travel medicine, and Setting up Community Health Programmes: a practical manual for use in developing countries, Macmillan 3rd Revised Edition 2008. He is married with three daughters and his interests include travel, cross country running, health care mission and biodiversity.
Community Health Global Networks
Dr Ted Lankester
Director of Health Services - MA MB BChir MRCGP FFTM RCPSGlasg Ct Th
Ted was the co-founder of InterHealth in 1989, when it was first registered as a charity. Ted trained and originally worked as a GP...
Zannah Jeffreys
Operations Manager (CHGN)
Zannah is Operations Manager for Community Health Global Network (CHGN) and statrted her role in July 2007...
CHGN is an initiative of InterHealth, founded by Dr Ted Lankester and Nick Henwood in 2005. CHGN aims to encourage, empower, connect and resource community health programmes around the world www.chgn.org.
Zannah previously worked for Tearfund, both in the UK-based Advocacy Group and overseas. Whilst in India, she gained a diploma in Community Health from CRHP, Jamkhed, and worked on health projects in the slums and brothels of Mumbai for Oasis.
Following the tsunami in December 2004, she worked for Tearfund's Disaster Management Team in Banda Aceh and Meulaboh, Indonesia, setting up a programme office, recruiting project staff and developing health education resources. In 2007, she completed a two month Admin and HR training assignment in the DRC.
Zannah enjoys sports, the great outdoors and spending quality time with her family and friends.
