ESEA Voices from across the NHS
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Keely Jin Ming Jones (she/her)
Online
Free
As part of East & South East Asian Heritage Month, we will hear from NHS staff and activists of East & South East Asian heritage.
ESEA Voices from the across the NHS is an online event where we will hear from NHS staff, volunteers and supporters of East and South East Asian heritage, celebrating their vast and diverse contribution to our National Health Service.
ESEA people in Britain are one of the fastest growing ‘ethnic’ groupings, with the highest percentage of international students. Yet ESEA people make up only 0.27% of the most powerful positions in the UK. Studies show that having an ESEA name significantly reduces one’s chances of being invited to a job interview (by around 50%) leading to the recent phenomenon of ‘name whitening’ amongst ESEA graduates. More than 20% of NHS staff and more than 30% of nurses who died from COVID19 are Filipinos. And racial abuse has dramatically increased during Covid-19, as people in the UK and other countries like the US have apportioned blame for the disease on China and anyone who is racialised as “Chinese”: Metropolitan police data shows there has been a steep rise in hate crimes towards ESEA people in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same period in 2018 and 2019.
It is more important than ever to support and celebrate the massive contribution of the ESEA workforce in the NHS.
Speakers to include:
Cola Chen – Cancer Education Programme Lead at UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
George Bermudez – Co-Founder- Filipino UK Nurses Community
Ming Tang – Chief Data and Analytics Officer - NHS England
Francis Fernando – Clinical Matron (Trauma and Orthopaedics), Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and President of the Filipino Nurses Association UK
Alvin Carpio – Director of Democracy & Culture Foundation