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This panel and networking event will bring together researchers and practitioners, including those with lived experience of displacement, to share insights on the impact of media narratives on refugee health and wellbeing. This event will encourage critical conversations on the connections between the media and health policy, and how these impact the everyday well-being and lived realities of refugees and migrants in accessing their right to health. Our speakers include a journalist, students and researchers with lived experience of displacement, and experts in refugee/migrant health and psychology. After the panel discussion, we will host a networking session to foster dialogue, ongoing network-building and collaborative relations among people with shared interests in media, migration and health. This event will facilitate interdisciplinary exchanges to create clarity on the connections between media and health policy and to highlight how constructive use of the media and narrative can be channelled towards improving migrant health and wellbeing.

Event organisers:

Kellerine Quah, DPhil Student, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, kellerine.quah@phc.ox.ac.uk 

Lisa Parvin, DPhil student, Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, lisa.parvin@stx.ox.ac.uk

Yasmynn Chowdhury, DPhil Student, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, yasmynn.chowdhury@anthro.ox.ac.uk

We are DPhil students whose research critically engages with refugee health and well-being across diverse contexts. Across our respective projects, we aim to use multidisciplinary approaches to generate ethically grounded, policy-relevant evidence that aims to improve services, inform interventions, and promote equitable and compassionate responses to global humanitarian crises.

Speakers:

Vivienne Francis, University of the Arts London and The Refugee Journalism Project 

Reem Khidir, University of Oxford 

Mohammad Haqmal, University of Oxford

Claire Marshall, University of East London 

Haleemah Alaydi, University of Westminster