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Dr. Ayesha Ahmad is a Reader in Global Health Humanities at St George's, University of London, affiliated with the Institute of Medical and Biomedical Allied Education. She holds a PhD in medical ethics and specializes in transcultural psychiatry, cross-cultural mental health, and ethical dimensions of mental health practices. Her work focuses on trauma in conflict zones, particularly gender-based violence and humanitarian crises, with projects in Kashmir, Turkey, and collaborations across Afghanistan, Tunisia, and South Africa through the SHAERCircle initiative.
Dr. Ahmad has developed courses in culture and mental health for undergraduate and postgraduate students and established the Global Health Humanities Hub to address inequities through humanities-based methodologies. She serves as an Expert Witness, providing reports on asylum seeker cases involving war, mental health, and gender-based violence. Her research integrates traditional storytelling as a therapeutic intervention for trauma and critically examines concepts like 'land trauma' against biomedical mental health paradigms.
Key collaborations include work with UCL’s Institute for Global Health and Queen Mary University London in transcultural psychiatry. She co-leads an MRC/AHRC-funded project on narrative therapies for gender-based violence in extreme settings. Media engagements include blogs on conflict trauma, Afghan women’s issues, and pandemic narratives.
