RSM Live

This episode of the COVID-19 Series aims to understand how the pandemic and multiple national lockdowns have impacted LGBTQ+ communities. Reports in recent years from the Government Equalities Office and Stonewall show that LGBTQ+ people are at higher risk of certain mental and physical health conditions, are less likely to access healthcare due to poor experiences, and have disproportionately worse health outcomes. These existing inequalities were exacerbated by the pandemic and the government’s control measures, with some LGBTQ+ people struggling with the loss of important community support structures, facing lockdown in hostile environments, and losing access to mental health services.

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As we enter the first winter living with Covid-19 following mass vaccination, this extended programme from the COVID-19 Series will look at where things currently stand.

We will focus on three main areas, vaccines, variants and infection, with the leading authorities in these fields; Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, Professor Sharon Peacock and Professor Sarah Walker. 

Mr Noor ul Owase Jeelani, Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), a world leader in craniopagus twin separation, and Founder of Gemini Untwined, will be joining Professor Roger Kirby, RSM President, for a conversation about his surgical career, how a background in law and business has shaped his approach to multidisciplinary patient management and improvement in overall care and outcomes, his research into Craniofacial Morphology with the FaceValue team, and his work and research with his charity, Gemini Untwined, into craniopagus twins.

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Michael Berkeley CBE, Composer and Broadcaster, will be joining Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE, RSM Psychiatry Section President, for a conversation about his career in music, his process for composing exquisite pieces of music, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the orchestral scene. 

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Award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster, Tom Holland, will be joining Professor Sir Simon Wessely, RSM immediate Past-President, for a conversation about his career, how he came to write his recent book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, which has been hugely praised and described as “completely transforms your understanding of the world”. Tom will also be talking about his process and research when writing historically correct biographies, and how historical pandemics compare to COVID-19.

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