Tag: Health
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The Cost of Inaction
Why Investing In Refugee Mental Health Makes Economic and Moral Sense. Originally published in The Doc Suit Debrief. Imagine one day losing your home, leaving behind everything you know, and having no sense of safety. Then, you are expected to rebuild your life with the traumas you are carrying in an unknown, often hostile, environment.…
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Book Review: The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson
Quote of the book “Nursing people means doing for them what they would normally do, when they have no will to do it, until they have will to do it”. 5 key points Review This book left me torn. On content and message alone, this would easily receive five stars – I loved the message…
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Book Review: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Quote of the book “It is time for us to reclaim our right to a full night of sleep, without embarrassment or the damaging stigma of laziness” 5 key points Review Are you a morning lark or night owl? Do you prefer sleeping later and waking up later or sleeping earlier at night and waking…
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Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Quote of the book “It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.” 5 key points Review In terms of understanding the world around us and how the human mind works, this is a very comprehensive book that takes you…
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Book Review: When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do to Prevent It by Professor Rory O’Connor
Quote of the book “Suicide is not selfish. Characterising suicide as selfish simply adds to the stigma around it. And when stigma increases, help-seeking declines, ignorance flourishes and deaths soar.” 5 key points Review Professor Rory O’Connor is one of the leading voices in psychiatry and suicide research. He is a distinguished academic in psychology…
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Book Review: because i knew you: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor’s Soul by Bob Macauley
Quote of the book “It’s easier to believe that sick kids always get better and death comes only for those who’ve lived a full and fulfilling life.” 5 key points Review Dr Bob Macauley is one of the few pediatric palliative care doctors in the United States, with a very personal story for why he…
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Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress 2025
Conference Reflections In June 2025, thousands of psychiatrists, researchers, and clinicians met in Wales for the Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress 2025. This is one of the UK’s leading conferences in mental health, exploring emerging challenges, scientific advances, and human experiences at the heart of psychiatry. I was particularly drawn to sessions on insomnia,…
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European Psychiatric Association: 33rd European Congress of Psychiatry 2025
Conference reflections The 33rd European Congress of Psychiatry, hosted by the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), took place from April 5-8, 2025, in Madrid, Spain. I am grateful to the Royal College of Psychiatrists for the funding to attend this conference as part of my Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry award. Under the theme “Towards Real-World Solutions…
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The Asylum System and Refugee Mental Health: Talk at LSHTM, March 2025
I was recently invited to talk at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine about refugee mental health at a seminar. This was a great chance to bring together my professional and personal interests in migration, as two generations of my family have been through migration. I spoke about the asylum system and mental…
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Fifth WHO Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health
The World Health Organisation held the fifth Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health in 2024. The theme of the year was “Advancing Universal Health Coverage for Refugees and Migrants: From Evidence to Action.” It was hosted in Bogotá, Colombia, bringing together leading experts from around the world in both humanitarian medicine and refugee and…
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