Bold Steps: Fireside chat with Dr Saleyha Ahsan
Tue 27 Feb
|Cambridge
Join us for a fireside chat with Dr Saleyha Ahsan and hear how she carved out a tremendous career from STEMM, frontline military personnel in the British Army, to presenting on the BBC and ITV and a participant on Bear Grylls.
Time & Location
27 Feb 2024, 18:30 – 20:00
Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
About the event
Join us for a fireside chat with Dr Saleyha Ahsan and hear how she carved out a tremendous career from STEMM, frontline military personnel in the British Army, to presenting on the BBC and ITV and a participant on Bear Grylls.
She is currently examining the impact of attacks against healthcare in conflict zones as a Sociology PhD student at Magdalene College, Cambridge. All whilst a practising emergency medicine doctor in intensive care.
Dr Saleyha Ahsan is a British medical doctor, presenter and journalist. She has worked as a humanitarian doctor on the frontline in conflict zones and as an A&E doctor in the UK, presented programmes including Trust Me I’m a Doctor and reported on conflict, social affairs, medicine, healthcare and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Salyeha Ahsan started her journey in STEMM, graduating with an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Salford. She was the first British Muslim…