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Dr. Leitch’s research goal is to increase the voice of marginalized communities in shaping health and mental health practices through practical and implementable knowledge. Current projects focus on the experiences of queer (LGBTQ+) people, transgender and gender nonconforming people, and people with minority racial and/or ethnic identities. Her work is grounded in her background as both a researcher and a mental health practitioner.
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Professor in healthcare science, Medical Faculty, University of Helsinki
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University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy &Former Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos; Former Visiting Faculty Dean, Faculty of Arts, Dennis Osadebay University, Asaba; Former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, at The Premier University of Sao Tome & Principe; President of the Philosophers Association of Nigeria, Fellow of the Nigerian Army Resource Center (FNARC); Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Leadership and Governance (FCILG); Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL); author & editor of several books, book chapters, & articles in Learned Journals of repute.
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Fatima El-Tayeb is Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include Black Europe, comparative diaspora studies, queer of color critique, critical Muslim studies, decolonial theory, transnational feminisms, visual culture studies, race and technology, and critical European studies. She is the author of three books and numerous articles on the interactions of race, gender, sexuality, religion and nation. Here current research projects explore the intersecting legacies of colonialism, fascism, and socialism in Europe and the potential of (queer) people of color alliances in decolonizing the continent.
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I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. I also sometimes teach public health ethics in the Center for Bioethics at NYU School of Global Public Health and environmental ethics in the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU Arts & Science.
My research focuses on global health ethics, vaccination ethics, and the ethics of health adaptation to climate change.
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Ahmad Barakat is a lecturer in Political Science and and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. His teaching and research interests lie in the politics and diplomacy of the Middle East. His work has appeared in a number of leading academic journals. He completed his PhD in political science and international studies at the University of Birmingham. He is a former Syrian diplomat and human rights expert.
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Mervyn Horgan's research gathers an eclectic set of substantive interests grounded in a normative commitment to solidarity. His broad areas of expertize are in urban sociology (especially public space) and housing studies.
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I am a Sociologist with research interests in reproductive technologies, gender and sexuality, genomic medicine, and health and illness. In late 2019 I undertook a Fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology where I co-authored a POSTnote (611) on Human Germline Genome Editing.
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Giuditta Fontana is an Associate Professor in International Security at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection between education and peace/conflict studies. She is committed to exploring the complex relationship between education policies and practices, civil conflict, and peace processes. Her multi-methods research combines original datasets, large-scale quantitative analysis, and fieldwork-based, rich qualitative investigations of conflict-affected societies in Europe, the Western Balkans, the Middle East and Western Africa.
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Consortium Coordinator-Efficiency & effectiveness of investment in high-quality education & training, ’global lecturer, 12 doctoral completions, 100+ Masters completions, experienced Director of Doctoral & Masters programmes in UK, & External Examiner in UK, Europe & Internationally over 21 years, BELMAS Treasurer for 17 years, expert for Japanese MEXT, European Commission, European Science Foundation Research Councils in UK, Canada, Kuwait & Qatar.& Board Member/reviewer for International Peer-Reviewed Journals and Editor-in-Chief of ‘Journal of Groundwork Cases and Faculty of Judgement’.