Elizabeth Grant

Elizabeth Grant is a Scottish academic who is an Assistant Principal and Director of the Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh She is a researcher and educator in the areas of palliative care compassion and global health and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and holds a chair in Global Health and Development. She was on the Board of Directors for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, (CUGH) and currently chairs the CUGH Research Committee.

Education and research Grant has a MA Religious Studies from University of Aberdeen and a PhD from University of Edinburgh. She has worked as part of Scottish initiatives in Malawi, Kenya and Zambia including working with Mhoira Leng, FRSE. She has been an advisor to global health charities and global health communities of practice.