{"id":6712,"date":"2024-02-20T15:13:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2024-07-10T15:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:14:24","slug":"prof-cotton-appointed-as-ughe-vice-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/prof-cotton-appointed-as-ughe-vice-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Cotton appointed as UGHE Vice Chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6713\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6713 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2024\/07\/Prof.-Phillip-Cotton-1024x956.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"490\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Phillip Cotton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span><span>On 16 February, the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/ughe.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Global Health Equity (UGHE)<\/a><\/span><\/span><span><span>\u00a0announced the appointment of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/people\/pc203\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honorary Professor Philip Cotton<\/a> as its next Vice Chancellor. Prof. Cotton will officially transition into the role on 8 April.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>UGHE is a health sciences university in Kigali, Rwanda. An initiative of Partners In Health, an\u00a0international non-profit public health organisation headquartered in Boston, MA, it was founded in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on Prof. Cotton&#8217;s appointment, UGHE Board Chair Dr Joseph Rhatigan said: \u201c[Prof. Cotton&#8217;s] exceptional track record of building collaboration, driving innovation in education, and empowering communities through education aligns with UGHE\u2019s mission to train the next generation of global health leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Prof. Cotton!\u00a0<span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/ughe.org\/newvicechancellor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a> about the appointment on the UGHE website.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 February, the\u00a0University of Global Health Equity (UGHE)\u00a0announced the appointment of\u00a0Honorary Professor Philip Cotton as its next Vice Chancellor. Prof. Cotton will officially transition into the role on 8 April. UGHE is a health sciences university in Kigali, Rwanda. An initiative of Partners In Health, an\u00a0international non-profit public health organisation headquartered in Boston, MA,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1283,8,10],"tags":[594,606,1333],"class_list":["post-6712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-igh","category-news","tag-igh","tag-infection-and-global-health-division","tag-prof-phillip-cotton"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 19:14:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}