John Kelly

Arriving in rural hospital in Angola in 2006, having travelled for days on a dirt track, he found an operating room where the lights didn't work, and there was no table appropriate for fistula procedures. Kelly was a huge believer in raising the profile of the preventable nature of obstetric fistula and the importance of access to maternity services for women in poor rural communities. While in the UK, he spent much time helping-again unpaid-those researching in the subject of maternity provision at the University of Birmingham's department of public health.