International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am Dr.Preeti Dabar from India, Research Scholar in the domain of Medical Sociology/Health Management/Health Humanities at Ambedkar University Delhi, India. I would to collaborate and with people exploring the similar field.

Maria R. Dahm is currently a Research Officer working on a number of projects on medical communication and will start her new position as Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University in 2013. She recently completed her PhD on the impact of medical terminology on English-medium consultations, focusing in particular on situations where either the doctor or the patients is a non-native speaker of English. Her research endeavors were awarded with a Faculty of Human Sciences Higher Degree Research Excellence Award. Maria’s research interests include communication and culture in intercultural medical contexts, experiences and challenges for international medical graduates in Australia, and English for Specific Purposes.

Vinia Dakari is Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her doctoral dissertation, “Performing Cancer: Toward an Aesthetic of the Unpresentable,” explores the aesthetic aspects of the unpresentability of cancer in performance and its impact on spectators. 
She is the Greek Representative for the Arts Health Early Career Research Network (ECRN) and Working Group member of the Greek Cancer Society’s Centre for Support, Education and Research in Psychosocial Oncology, Athens. 
She is co-editor of the “Medicine and/in Theatre” issue of Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques, the online journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics. 
Her current research and teaching focuses on the intersection of art and health, Anglophone theatre, and American literature and culture.

I am a senior research scholar and teaching assistant at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, in India. I work in the domain of Health Humanities where I primarily focus on the multiple representations of fear and stigma through bodies in HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 narratives in India. My research interests include but are not limited to body studies, gender and sexuality, postcolonial studies, and posthumanism. 

I am an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Warwick medical school. I am the Academic Lead for Case Based Learning for the MBChB and the Chair of the Course (Academic) Progress Group. I am an external examiner for Oxford University Graduate Entry Programme and ScotGEM. My clinical background is a GP currently employed as a bank GP for community hospitals. (with previous work in A&E and paediatrics and a year in ITU).

I am also a musician, singing with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus. 

I have an interest in humanities and particularly the importance of all the arts within medicine not just medicine related humanities. 

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I have recently started work as Regional (Central) Co-Ordinator with Country SA PHN (Primary Health Networks). My area covers approximately a third of South Australia.

 I am exploring new ways of engaging community in order to find and map needs in the various regional, rural and remote areas of SA.

Our Federal Government has recently "handed over"Mental Health to the 31 PHNs around Australia so once again exploring options for making the appropriate (what the person wants/ needs)  services accessible and equitable across diverse populations and across vast geographical areas.

I have practised as a Pharmacist for over 30 years. I also have qualifications in Education, Transperson Art Therapy, Phytotherapy and Homeopathic medicine.

I am currently studying a unit, "The Arts and Dementia Care"through the University of Tasmania.

I am also a visual artist working mainly in mosaic art at the moment.

PhD candidate at the English Literature Department lf Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Paulo has taught at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation LAPS (Laboratório de Pesquisas em Saúde Mental e Atenção Psicossocial – ENSP – FIOCRUZ, as well as schools such as  Escola Alfa, Macaé (RJ). He has also overseen courses in cinical psychology at the IPGL – Institudo de Pós-graduação do Grupo Lusófona, Rio de Janeiro and with Juiz de Fora, the president of cultural services in Macaé (RJ), implimented the Heterogênese Urbana project: http//:heterogeneseurbana.org. He has authored the following books:  Heterogênese, Saúde Mental e Transcomposições, Rio de Janeiro, Editora  Multifoco, 2012 and, A Estética do Contato, (co-author) com Teresinha Mello da Silveira, Rio de Janeiro, Arquimedes Editora, 2012.

I am a social psychologist.  My research focuses on lived experiences of chronic physical and mental illness, and on systems of care in African contexts. My current project aims to develop health competence in an urban poor Ghanaian community through community participatory methods. I have a strong interest in the arts and in health humanities and I have explored using creative arts as a tool for mental health education in Ghana.