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GBV in Conflict and Humanitarian Mental Health Expert Dr Ayesha Ahmad tonight!

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Joining us on todays share is Dr Ayesha Ahmad.

Ayesha a lecturer in Global Health at St Georges University of London and Honorary Lecturer at the Institute for Global Health, University College London, with a PhD in Medical Ethics. She specialises in cross-cultural mental health especially during conflict and gender-based violence in extreme settings. Recently, her colleagues and herself completed a funded research project on Investigating Trauma Therapeutic Interventions for Gender-Based Violence in Afghanistan Using Traditional Story-Telling. She explore the politics of mental health and the role of humanities such as poetry and storytelling in global health, and am particularly interested in silencing and war-related trauma.  Call in, Tune in, Skype in, Chat in to join the discussion and Lets Talk!

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