1) Today Myself and 9 other women published an open letter to UK Research and Innovation Dr Michelle King-Okoye🇹🇹🇬🇧🇦🇺 Dr.Janine Francois Dr. Ruth Agbakoba 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @MissChisomo Furaha Asani @docadisa Dr Ruby (she/her) jaboukies everything @DoulaSmith Dr Addy Adelaine Paulette Williams #KnowledgeIsPower researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

HARM network Dr Addy Adelaine UK Research and Innovation Dr Michelle King-Okoye🇹🇹🇬🇧🇦🇺 Dr.Janine Francois Dr. Ruth Agbakoba 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 Furaha Asani @docadisa Dr Ruby (she/her) jaboukies everything @DoulaSmith Paulette Williams Dr Addy Adelaine did an incredible job looking into this. I’m proud to support this work.

@MissChisomo HARM network UK Research and Innovation Dr Michelle King-Okoye🇹🇹🇬🇧🇦🇺 Dr.Janine Francois Dr. Ruth Agbakoba 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 Furaha Asani @docadisa Dr Ruby (she/her) jaboukies everything @DoulaSmith Paulette Williams It's been one of the most incredible experiences to work with such a large group of talented Black women. It has strengthened my resolve for action, as your brilliant minds need to be engaged in knowledge creation and social change

It is important that BAME academics are equally represented across UKRI, NIHR and other funding allocations. We are talented, qualified, experienced and can make a difference in research!!

Have you signed our open letter for change to happen? Change that will affect the present and future generations. If you believe in equitable research, what are you waiting on- SIGN and make a difference🙌🏽🙌🏽!!!

Many thanks for having myself and Talya Underwood a brilliant researcher from the team today Voice of Islam Radio DriveTime Show - Voice of Islam Radio. Our research study will provide the platform for increased dialogue with the BAME community during these difficult times!! medium.com/@IGDORE/resear…

1/8) After a long process of discussion our CEO of Ladders4Action Dr Addy Adelaine has been offered a 45min meeting with UK Research and Innovation with their EDI team on 8th of Sept. On 10th Sept we will join a brilliant line up of people & publicly feedback on what happened

It’s really refreshing to know that the couple who created the Covid-19 vaccine are from a minority ethnic background and their parents were immigrants. Yes, immigrants can be the answer to many of our global issues! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 google.com/amp/s/news.sky…

Very excited about utilising research to reduce Covid-19 mortality rates and improve quality of lives for individuals and families affected by this dreadful disease!!

More than 100,000 people have now died with Covid in the UK So how can you support someone through the loss of a loved one? bbc.in/39iiu9J

Save the date 📅 May 26th 1-2pm Dr Michelle King-Okoye🇹🇹🇬🇧🇦🇺 will talk about 'Emotional Intelligence and Resilience amidst Changing Times' at the PGR conference School of Health in Social Science She will answer questions about resilience in #BAMEwomen during the pandemic. Register here: ow.ly/GCcg50ES8XU

Covid booster jabs should be offered to all UK over-18s as part of efforts to tackle new variant Omicron, government advisers say bbc.in/315ZSJ4

We're expanding and accelerating the #COVID19 vaccination programme following new advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). This will strengthen our defences against the #OmicronVariant. Find out more 🔽

Following cases of the #OmicronVariant being confirmed in London, it is critically important that we do everything we can to help stop its spread while we learn more about how infectious it is, if it could cause more severe disease and what effect it might have on our vaccines.