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Dr Vanessa Apea

Co-Founder and Medical Director of Phoenix Health Movment

Dr Vanessa Apea is a consultant physician in Genito-urinary and HIV medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. She is also the deputy academic lead for equality, diversity and inclusion within its School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Vanessa has made reducing inequities in healthcare a central focus of her clinical work and research and has an established track record of exploring barriers to engagement in care in marginalised populations. She has a particular research interest in participatory approaches and the intersection of race, gender and health.

Vanessa is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fulbright scholar.

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Marc Thompson

Marc Thompson

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Denis Onyango

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Susan Cole

Susan Cole

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Reverend Jide Macaulay

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