Brunel University London has established the Dr Jeshika Singh Memorial Prize in memory of our wonderful former colleague and alumna who died of a brain aneurysm aged just 35. Your support will enable us to increase the prize and extend it to encourage and reward additional cohorts of students training to improve the health of populations.

After working on a health campaign promoting Vitamin A in her native Nepal, Jeshika Singh joined Brunel in 2009 as a researcher at the Health Economics Research Group (HERG). Jes was extremely popular, both with colleagues and those whom she taught on the HERG Short Course on Economic Evaluation in Healthcare. She developed into a highly talented researcher, receiving an Award from Brunel's Research Institutes.

Although she left Brunel in 2017 to continue her successful career a Senior Health Economics and Outcomes Analyst at PHMR Ltd, Jes retained her strong links with Brunel and received her PhD from the university in July 2018.

Jeshika was also popular with the masters students on the health promotion module she led on the universitys MSc in Public Health and Health Promotion course. In memory of Jeshika, and to encourage students in this vital area, Brunel is funding 5 awards of a prize of £150 to the student with the highest marks in their Public Health and Health Promotion MSc dissertation at both the summer and winter graduations.

The fundraising target of another £4,150 will enable Brunel to increase the prize to £250 and extend the number of graduations covered to 20. If the target is exceeded, the number of graduations will be further extended which will encourage and reward the hard work of further cohorts of students from many countries training to improve the health of populations.