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Our mission is to advance racial health equity and investigate how racism and discrimination affect mental health outcomes.

A meeting of the Race and Psychiatry Journal Club - Maya is pictured at the front, with Anabelle second from the right.
A meeting of the Race and Psychiatry Journal Club.

We aim to provide space for critical reflection on how race is considered in psychiatric research, as well as gain insight into the unique challenges faced by minoritized individuals in healthcare. This knowledge will enable us as a department to design more equitable psychiatric research.

Leading committee

BSc (Psychology) Maya Ogonah - DPhil Student Briana Applewhite - DPhil Student NEUROSCIENCE, ETHICS AND SOCIETY THEME LEAD Ilina Singh - Professor of Neuroscience & Society

 

Activities

We host one presentation per month (excluding term breaks) on relevant research in race & psychiatry. This can include presentations from internal or external academics in the space, or presenting relevant published literature (more ‘traditional journal club’ style).


News

Q&A: Introducing a Race and Psychiatry Journal Club in the Department of Psychiatry

Toolkit: Maya and Anabelle's guide on how to set up a journal club or special interest group in your department

More Information

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  • Check out our Communications Page (internal only) for materials from previous meetings and additional resources.
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Previous Journal Club guest speakers and papers

Jiedi Lei on her paper Exploring adolescents' experiences of talking about race, ethnicity and culture during dialectical behaviour therapy

Briana Applewhite on her DPhil research into Black racial minority young people with Psychiatric Disorders utilising creative arts therapies (BLACK ARTS)

Kevin Matlock on his paper Depression and Anxiety Mediate the Relationship between discrimination and Well-Being in a sample of Latinx Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

Yasmin Ahmadzadeh from King's College London talked about the TRADE (transmission of experiences of Racism, Anxiety and Depression in families) project

Maya Ogonah and Anabelle Paulino presented an external paper on Intersectionality, discrimination and mental health service use by Rhead et al.

Tanya Manchanda presented an external paper on The Association Between Race Related Stress and Trauma and Emotion Dysregulation in Youth of Colour by Roach et al.

Maya Ogonah and Anabelle Paulino presented an external paper by Price et al on Addressing Structural Racism in Psychiatry With Steps to Improve Psychophysiologic Research

PODCASTS

Race & Health podcast

Transmission of Experiences of Racism, Anxiety, and Depression in Families - podcast by Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Dr Michelle Morse, Chief Medical Officer of the New York City Department of Health, on the Global Health Lives podcast

Thahmina Begum, an artist and art psychotherapist based in Leeds, on the Centre for Mental Health podcast

Claudia Turbet-Delof, a local councillor in Hackney, Mental Health Champion, person centred therapist and human rights campaigner, on the Centre for Mental Health podcast

Mental health campaigner and anti racism activist António Ferreira speaks to the Centre for Mental Health's podcast

Other resources

NHS – Race and Health Observatory (nhsrho.org)

Grounded Sounds