International Health Humanities Network Membership

Iam a developmental paediatrics graduated from faculty of Medicine Alexandria University.Deeply interrested in health wellbeing through embedding the right life style since early childhood.Believing in the crucial role of arts litterature and music on refining our souls.I am working as aprofessor of developmental paediatrics and child health at Alexandria university Iam also teaching some topics as the role of museums in child development.The role of arts in child development.Art therapy.Iam also managing an early intervention centre for children at risk.

Brian Abrams, Ph.D., MT-BC, LPC, LCAT, Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery, has been a music therapist since 1995, with clinical experience involving a wide range of populations. Dr. Abrams completed undergraduate studies at Vassar College and SUNY New Paltz, and graduate studies at Temple University. Prior to his current position at Montclair State as Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Therapy, he served on the faculty at Utah State University (2001-2004) and Immaculata University (2004-2008). He has published and presented internationally on a wide range of topics such as music therapy in cancer care, music psychotherapy, and humanistic dimensions of music therapy.

He has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, such as Music Therapy Perspectives, the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. His current interests include contributing to the development of the global, interdisciplinary area of Health Humanities. He has also recently helped create a music therapy program at Trinitas Comprehensive Cancer Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he provides music therapy services on a part-time basis. From 2005 to 2011, he served on the Executive Board of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), including as President from 2007-2009. On a national level, from 2010 to Present, he has served on the AMTA Board of Directors as an elected representative from the AMTA Assembly of Delegates.

I am a lecturer at Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo where I teach Literature. Currently, I am a undergoing my Doctorate in Literature with specification in Literature and Medicine. The focus of my study is on South African physicians writers.

I am Reader in English and Drama at Loughborough University. I lead a new research group - Health Humanities - which is based in the English at Loughborough University. In recent years I have worked on ageing, especially old age and theatre. A recent article in this area is ‘The Utopian Potential of Aging and Longevity in Bernard Shaw’s Back to Methuselah’, Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal (May 2019), and I have a chapter called ‘Ageing as Crisis on the Twenty-First Century British Stage’ due to be published shortly in Clare Wallace, Clara Escoda, and José Ramón Prado-Pérez (eds) Performing Crisis: Perspectives on Contemporary British Theatre (Methuen Bloomsbury, 2022). In my current work on ageing, I am exploring encounters between dominant framings of the contemporary and ageing/old age (particularly female old age) in 21stst-century theatre, film, and fiction.

I was also Principal Convenor of the British Academy conference - 'Narratives of Old Age and Gender' - which took place in London in September 2019, and was co-run with colleagues from the Universities of Lincoln and Keele. Taking a broad historical perspective from the early modern period to the present, the conference put past and present into dialogue and addressed representations of both ageing masculinity and femininity, asking how gendered cultural narratives can be crucial for gerontological debates and how studies of gender are enriched by attending to old age. The conference brought together scholars from multiple disciplines, creative practitioners, and experts on ageing from third sector organizations to consider narratives of old age and gender, their limitations and the potential for alternatives. More details can be found online. I am currently co-editing a supplementary issue of the Journal of the British Academy based on research presented at the conference.

Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery Administrator

Mustafa is currently undertaking a PhD at the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney. His research topic is "Attitudes of Youth towards Alcohol in Muslim Majority Countries (MMCs): Insights from Iraq." He has completed a honours with a thesis titled "Bimaristans and Waqf In Islam: Case Studies of Hospital Endowment during 9th to 13th Century CE in the Muslim World." Previously he majored in History and Philosophy of Science as well as Arabic, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies during his Undergraduate Arts and Science degree at the University of Sydney. He is interested in researching into contemporary public health issues in the Middle East, especially those relating to Prevention, Globalisation and Health Promotion. In addition to his studies, Mustafa is tri-lingual and is well-travelled and thus posseses an understanding of various cultures.

Basim is an experienced researcher in medical and health fields such as bioethics, health systems and children development.

I work in a medical school in India. For the last ten years we have been actively working on a professional and personal development module for our students. The main objective is to provide them a holistic outlook of the medicine that they ought to practice. Whle doing this module we have liberally used humanities for acheiving the stated outcomes. It ranges from music, theatre, reflective exercises to activities that focus on team building and leadership.

Currently I am the lead coordinator of this module

Dr Burcu Alkan received her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2009. She worked on a TUBITAK funded, EU/COST supported project on the “Women Writers of Turkey” between 2010 and 2012. She co-edited the Dictionary of Literary Biography 373: Turkish Novelists Since 1960 (2013, ISBN: 978-0787696481) and Dictionary of Literary Biography 379: Turkish Novelists Since 1960, Second Series (2016, ISBN: 978-0787696542). Her earlier research includes studies on the concept of the intellectual and modernity & literature. Her monograph, "Promethean Encounters: Representation of the Intellectual in the Modern Turkish Novel" has just come out of Harrassowitz Verlag.

Recently, she has been working in the field of medical humanities, on the relationship between psychiatry and literature, focusing on psychoanalysis, self-destruction, suicide, and mental health.