ABOUT Primary Care International
The PCI Academy is Primary Care International’s online learning platform — created to meet the growing need for high-quality, practical training for frontline health workers in low- and middle-income countries.

Clinicians working in fragile, low-resource and humanitarian settings often face limited access to continuing professional development, despite being responsible for managing increasingly complex health needs, including noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), mental health, and reproductive health.

The PCI Academy was developed to bridge this gap — offering accessible, relevant, and up-to-date training that strengthens both individual clinical practice and wider primary health care systems.

Our platform is built by a team of global health experts and experienced primary care clinicians, and reflects PCI’s deep engagement with Ministries of Health, NGOs and UN partners across more than 50 countries. The content is practical, evidence-based, and grounded in WHO guidance, tailored for real-world use in overstretched and under-resourced settings.

Whether you’re a health worker looking to strengthen your own practice, or an organisation seeking scalable training solutions for your teams or partners, the PCI Academy provides a flexible and proven way to build capacity, at scale and with lasting impact.

What we offer

  • 70+ hours of self-paced, mobile-friendly content
  • Grounded in WHO guidance and PCI’s global experience in over 50 countries
  • Designed by and for primary care professionals working in real-world, resource-limited contexts
  • Learners receive certificates and access to an international community of practice

Since our launch in 2014, PCI has:
  • Reached 7,000+ healthcare workers
  • Seen 91% of our trainees make changes to their practice as a result of our training
  • Reached healthcare workers in 70+ countries around the world

Courses Include

  • Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD):

NCD Essentials
NCD Extension
NCD Clinical Skills
NCD Operations
NCD Training of Trainers (ToT)

  • Mental Health in Primary Care
  • Paediatrics in Primary Care
  • Sexual & Reproductive Health in Primary Care
  • Pain Management in Primary Care
  • Leadership in Primary Care
  • Digital Literacy in Primary Care
  • Clinical Skills in Primary Care

Through our ‘Co-create, Coach, Catalyse’ model, we partner with others to co-create, learn, innovate, catalyse change and advocate.
With a firm belief in compassionate, person-centred healthcare, PCI occupies a unique position, bringing deep clinical and systems expertise to integrated primary healthcare
Mamsallah Faal-Omisore
Clinical Director

Who It's For

The PCI Academy is available to both:

  • Organisations
We partner with a wide range of organisations — including Ministries of Health, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), UN agencies, academic institutions, and commercial health providers — to deliver training to their teams, local partners, or programme participants.
  • Individual Learners
We also offer a low-cost subscription option for individual clinicians who want to access training independently, anytime and anywhere.

Why it works

  • Created by global health experts and frontline clinicians
  • In use in over 50 countries across multiple health system levels
  • Supports workforce development, task-sharing, supervision and service quality
  • Enables rapid, scalable training rollouts at low cost
  • Empowers learners with skills, confidence and community

Built by PCI

The PCI Academy is run by Primary Care International, a UK-based not-for-profit social enterprise working to strengthen primary health care globally.

We support Ministries of Health and delivery partners through technical assistance, training, co-developed strategies and system-wide learning.

Get Started

Whether you're looking to strengthen your national workforce or access learning as an individual, the PCI Academy provides practical, high-quality training to support your goals.
👉 Explore our courses and pricing
📬 Contact us to discuss how we can support your team

Our Ethics

We believe that healthcare is a human right. We pursue ways of working that uphold ethical approaches that safeguard and promote:

Legitimacy 

by ensuring multiplicity (of voices and capacities) in our work, partnering around shared vision and working with humility and authenticity

Freedoms 

by strengthening healthcare in a manner that is fully respectful of all forms of diversity and individual rights

Integrity

by embedding truth and transparency in our purpose and methods

Equity 

by combining inclusivity with fairness whilst combating discrimination


Meet the PCI Academy Team

Dr Mamsallah Faal-Omisore

Clinical Director
Mamsallah is a practising GP in London and Lagos and Faculty at the Healthcare Leadership Academy, Lagos.

Dr Penny Milner

Senior Clinical Associate
Penny is a GP in South East London. She also teaches evidence-based medicine and communication skills to specialist trainees and medical students, and has international experience in family medicine & nurse mentorship.

Dr Helen Bygrave

Senior Clinical Associate
Helen is a GP in East London. She is also NCD Advisor for the MSF Access Campaign and provides technical support for their HIV/TB project and to WHO and the International AIDS Society.

Dr Khairat Al-Habbal

Clinical Associate
Khairat is a GP, medical educator, consultant and researcher. She runs an in- and outpatient practice in Beirut and is also a faculty member at a prominent medical school in Lebanon teaching family medicine and social medicine.

Dr Reina Alameddine

Clinical Associate
Reina is a GP and medical director of a primary healthcare centre in Beirut. She also works for a health economics and outcome research consultancy firm.

Dr Kiran Cheedella

Clinical Associate
Kiran works as a GP in the UK and with Queen Margaret University and the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, Sierra Leone on NCD action research projects.

Dr Anushka Mehrotra

Clinical Associate
Anushka is a GP in London, She has experience working in migrant health, and as a digital health leader, both privately and in the NHS where she is Medical Director for a GP Federation.

Dr Silvia Okamgba

Clinical Associate
Silvia is a Family Physician in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She holds a Masters Degree in Health Policy and Planning from LSHTM and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians.

Dr Lucinda Hiam

Clinical Associate
Lucinda has worked as a GP in London and with MSF in Jordan. She holds an honorary research fellow position at LSHTM, and is undertaking a part-time DPhil at the University of Oxford.

Dr Caroline Jones

Clinical Associate
Caroline trained as a family medicine doctor in the US and now works as a GP in an inner-city practice in the UK. She also holds a Masters in Public Health.

Tineke De Groot

Clinical Associate
Tineke is a Nurse and Educational Trainer. She has worked in a variety of primary health care settings globally and is currently training healthcare professionals in the Netherlands prepare to work in low-income settings.

Dr David Mazza

Clinical Associate
David is a GP on a remote Scottish Island. He has worked in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and as a palliative care facilitator and lecturer in the UK and in India.

Enrique Castro-Sánchez

Clinical Associate
Enrique trained in nursing in Spain and public health in the UK. He is currently a lecturer, postdoctoral researcher and consultant nurse in communication and research.

Dr Marian Davis

Clinical Associate
Marian is a GP, basedin the UK, whilst also working in a variety of settings globally, working alongside teams developing services, mentoring and delivering education materials. 

Dr Peter Le Feuvre

Honorary Clinical Advisor
Peter is a GP with thirty years experience in family medicine. In addition to his work with asylum seekers for the NHS, he has extensive international experience, including four years working in Tunisia.

Dr Sarah Montgomery

Honorary Clinical Advisor
Sarah is a GP with extensive international experience in building capacity in healthcare professionals in resource-poor settings, with a focus on pragmatic, evidence-based training and support.

Robert Edilu

PCI Academy Facilitator
Robert is a Clinical Officer in Uganda and PCI Academy facilitator. He was a previous learner on PCI's face to face course: alumni turned facilitator.