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In a wide-ranging conversation, Evan and Emmert contrast east and west coasts of America, and how travel showed “the US isn’t one place at all”. An economist/broadcaster and addiction psychiatrist find much to share about their experiences 25 years apart, including...
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From reserved young doctor in Northern Ireland to having her first book published, via designing the medical evacuation airlift from Sarajevo during the 1990s war and leading the public health response to Covid-19 in Scotland, Claire learns how Mary found her voice and what happened on the way. Listen to two clinicians who truly care that we all have a Voice.
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Claire Wilson MRCPsych PhD (HF 2023-4) is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and NIHR Advanced Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She leads the GenMind research group at King’s College London. Claire employs a lifespan approach to the development of healthy and resilient families, focusing her clinical work (in SE London) and research on the intergenerational transmission of risk for mental health and disease. She is particularly interested in how parental multimorbid physical and mental ill health and substance misuse come together in the preconception and perinatal periods to shape offspring outcomes across generations. During her Harkness Fellowship, she investigated the influence of racial inequalities on parental mental health outcomes.
Professor Mary Ethna Black FRCP FFPH MD MPH MA DTM&H DCH DObst. (HF 1990-91) has held senior posts in medicine, social care, academia, government, and the UN, and her experience spans Asia, Australia, Central America, Europe and the USA. Mary is currently a NED of the UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science and the National Centre for Earth Observation, general member of the Thames Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, elected board member of Patient Classification Systems International, and Trustee/Director of the MCS Foundation. She is a founding Fellow of Chapter Zero UK. Mary has won or been listed for over 30 writing prizes, and has been awarded artist residencies at Bundanon, Cill Rialaig, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and Varuna.
Splav will be published by Abacus in August 2026. Set in Serbia, this memoir is about finding home in an unstable world. Welcome to coffee, catfish, and chaos.