Overview
The TV show The Wire will be explored to look at public mental health in minoritised communities and how syndemics operate to worsen mental health outcomes.
The session will be interactive and have video clips to facilitate learning.
Speaker
Dr Akeem Sule is the Co-founder of HIP HOP PSYCH and a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry, South Essex Partnership Trust, and an Honorary Visiting Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge and Research Associate at Wolfson College. He was recently appointed as a Senior Clinical Tutor at the Cambridge University, School of medicine.
Dr Sule has taught Psychiatry in the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Egypt, Nigeria, Ireland and India. He is a member of the Association of University Teachers in Psychiatry and was the winner of the Consultant Teacher of the Year award for Bedfordshire and Luton Partnership Trust.
Dr Sule is a pioneer of the “Old School Hip Hop Method of Teaching” and has a special interest in biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychotherapies.
Details
This event is open to all and free to attend - please book your place.
If you would like to join online, please register for the Zoom link.
Access
This event will take place in the Gatsby Room on the first floor of the Chancellor's Centre. It has step-free access with a lift and there is an accessible toilet located each floor of the building.
REACH Hub
This event is organised by Wolfson's REACH Research Hub, an interdisciplinary meeting place for the promotion and facilitation of culturally diverse research.
Image from HBO.