Dr Saleyha Ahsan will be speaking about life as a doctor in a conflict zone, and how you can get involved working in humanitarian medicine as a qualified doctor. There will also be a short Q+A at the end!

Certificates of attendance will be provided!

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Dr Saleyha Ahsan is a filmmaker and a broadcast journalist, having worked and produced content across multi-media platforms, including Channel 4 (C4 News, Dispatches) BBC (Panorama, Newsnight, Trust Me I’m a Doctor, Horizon), The Guardian, BBC R4 (Inside Health) and ITV. She is also a practising emergency medicine doctor currently working in intensive care.

Her career began in broadcast as a junior reporter for BBC local radio. However, she had a four year break from journalism when she gained a place at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps as a non-medical support officer. During her operational tour of Bosnia in 1997 as part of Nato’s SFOR, Saleyha was inspired to re-train as a doctor, after witnessing severe trauma suffered by Bosnian civilians caused by landmines. She commenced her studies at the University of Dundee but at the same time, resumed her journalism career as a freelancer.

Her current affairs broadcast work spans coverage of health, humanitarian and conflict reporting. She has worked as either a filmmaker or a doctor in Syira, Libya, Kashmir, Palestine, DRCongo and Pakistan. After years of witnessing and documenting the challenges of access to healthcare in conflict zones, she completed her LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Essex. This has now evolved to further study and she is currently a Sociology PhD student at Magdelene College, Cambridge where she is examining the impact of attacks against healthcare in conflict zones.