Plenary E: Tackling racial and ethnic bias when translating research into policy

Dr Naidu is associate professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a clinical psychologist practising in the public health context in South Africa. Her research focus is equity in global medical education and global health, inspired by her experiences as Global South researcher in global health, mental health and infectious diseases (HIV and MDR-TB, FGS etc).  Over the course of her career as a researcher and health professional Dr Naidu has worked consistently with marginalised and racialised women in the Global South.  She interested in how mental health can be integrated into healthcare and works consistently with her health professions students with develop opportunities for longitudinal clinical experiences and relationships in health professions training.  Her research focuses on global medical education from critical and theoretical perspectives including decolonial and feminist theories. Dr Naidu is interested in how research, authorship and scholarship practices shape dominant and marginalised narratives in medical education research, teaching and clinical practice and  which may contributed to fragmented care narratives and practices. She uses research poetry as a method for deep reflexivity to document, present and illustrate research findings. Her published work has appeared in The Lancet and The Lancet Global Health. She has several multinational research collaborations across the Global North and Global South and participates in several global education and research forums.