Fellowship would have delighted Sir John Logan Campbell

Medical fellowship would have delighted Sir John Logan Campbell

Auckland (12 April 2016): A new medical fellowship to help outstanding young researchers further their health and medical studies overseas would have been close to the heart of the founder of the trust supporting it, Sir John Logan Campbell, who established Cornwall Park for the people of New Zealand in 1901, and also endowed a charitable trust for wider charitable purposes.

Announcing the new annual award to be known as the Campbell Fellowship today, John Clark, Chairman of the Sir John Logan Campbell Medical Trust and Cornwall Park Trust Board, said that as a doctor and ships surgeon working his passage to New Zealand in 1840, Sir John had been keen on advancing medicine in New Zealand.

The new fellowship will award $15,000 - $25,000 to early career medical researchers at The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences to support two to three months overseas study and research.

The Sir John Logan Campbell Medical Trust which has established the fellowship is funded by the charitable endowment left by Sir John Logan Campbell and administered by the Cornwall Park Trust Board.

“The Campbell Fellowship will help promising young New Zealanders and New Zealand residents deepen their studies and bring back the benefits of international research and study to New Zealand. We are very pleased to support such a positive undertaking and are sure Sir John would have heartily approved.”

Professor John Fraser, Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at The University of Auckland, said the Campbell Fellowship will be a new boost to career development and bring significant long term benefits to health research.

“Global knowledge and connections are crucial in today’s environment. The Fellowship addresses a need to help young academics grow and strengthen links with the global research and development community,” he said.

The Fellowship is expected to become a prestigious award that will benefit the whole of New Zealand research and development in medicine.

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