In the bid to support 🇺🇬health diaspora in 🇬🇧, today our 🇺🇬Country Director Henry Muwonge met with Little Winnie Foundation and Eye health Africa executives at Al-Hidaaya House earmarked for a diaspora health hub to extend health services to the underserved communities.

New supplementary issue of the Journal of the British Academy, 'Exploring Medical Mistrust: From Clinic to Community' explores and unpacks the complex relationships intertwined with contemporary manifestations of mistrust in medicine: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/jou…

Take a look at the new special issue on medical mistrust edited by Megan Schmidt-Sane Tabitha Hrynick Dr Elizabeth Storer & Santi Ripoll. I have an article in the issue too: The centrality of (mis)trust in pandemic preparedness in Sub-Saharan Africa: a conceptual framework thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/jou…

Dr Charlotte Sanders and Nikita Simpson will present their work on migration and gender in Portsmouth and Birmingham at the launch of a £1.25m Impact Award SOAS ESRC IAA. Join us! 30 January2024 @ 5pm SOAS SALT&Online Register rb.gy/4npvm5 shorturl.at/grV19

My aunt Maryna Verbytska is an acclaimed Ukrainian painter & incredibly inspirational person. She came to the UK fleeing the war in Ukraine. Despite the hardship, she never stopped painting. We finally created a website that showcases & sells her art: verbytska.net. 1/2

Dan Wellings samira ben Omar ✨ Donna Hall ✨ Andrew McCracken Leonora Merry Neil Churchill Olivia Butterworth (She/Her) 💜 Victor Adebowale “Birmingham is a multicultural city, however, those in positions of power do not reflect the city it represents” a Birmingham dweller I concur with that … thanks suad for these insights about ‘not being seen’ & for sharing them The Health Creation Alliance event last year samira ben Omar

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Over 2 million people across the UK live in homes with damp mould.  Fatima is one of them. She's shared her story and why she's fighting back in a new film.

Over 2 million people in the UK are living in homes with black mould. This isn’t just detrimental to people’s health, it can be a matter of life and death. That’s why the Homes for Us alliance is fighting back👊

We're excited to be hosting a public conversation on mould, race and inequality on June 4th at 5:30pm based on the ethnographic work that Lecturer, Nikita Simpson is doing with Dr Elizabeth Storer and suad. Sign up here: eventbrite.com/e/homesick-a-p…

There is one clear cause of the housing emergency: the failure to build enough genuinely affordable social rented homes.   That's why we've joined Shelter and 41 other organisations to demand #SocialHousingNotScapegoating.   Read the letter below. KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner Inside Housing

Tower Hamlets has the highest child poverty rate in the country. Some of the worst hit are Muslims — who make up 40% of the borough. Andrew Kersley spoke to Coffee Afrik CIC - liberation, healing, abolition. and Muslim Aid UK, who are on the frontlines of the crisis. hyphenonline.com/2024/06/17/wev…

Mould, damp, heat, leaks…Urban Futures PhD researcher elara k shurety discussed her ongoing work on mould in UK social housing as part of her LISS-DTP funded research Thanks to Dr Elizabeth Storer Nikita Simpson for organising the ‘Indoor Ecologies’ workshop

There are record numbers of children living in temporary accommodation, with 55 child deaths contributed to living in TA. The new Labour Government NEED to act, and FAST, on housing and the inequalities which are leading to so many families left homeless. #endhomelessness

Save Black British History at Goldsmiths - Sign the Petition! chng.it/5XMw4QgpXY via Change.org

The Islamophobia and racism we are seeing are abhorrent. I agree that as a community Geographers should stand with those experiencing violence and discrimination. Geographical education can be a tool to challenge ignorance and the politics of hate to build more hopeful futures.

FASCIST OFF OUR STREETS! Well done to the #Lewisham community for showing up in big numbers to support Islamic and black communities that have been under attack throughout the U.K. #RefugeesAreWelcomeHere ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼✊🏽✊🏻 Lewisham Mosque Lewisham TUC SUTR SELondon

We will not let the far right divide us #Lewisham stands in solidarity with immigrants under attack We march for Gaza, we organise for peace AND WE STAND UP TO RACISM Lewisham Mosque Lewisham TUC

Interested in legal geographies? 🌍 Engaged with the urban? 🌆 We are welcoming guests to join us in person King's Geography in October to energise dialogue on law and the city. Details 👇