Asmina Islam Chowdhury

Image says Ramadan Mubarak and depicts the dome and minaret of white mosque alongside a new moon.

Ramadan Mubarak to all who are celebrating. May this month be filled with peace, joy and community, and your prayers and fasts accepted.

#RamadanMubarak #RamadanKareem

There’s still time to register your interest in our upcoming event. We’ll be exploring how leaders are embedding leadership accountability for equality, diversity and inclusion with insights from Ian Holmes @wypartnership.bsky.social and @aliaslam.bsky.social

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Equity Charter Standing up to discrimination in Digital Health

📣 We're pleased to announce that as part of our Digital Boards programme, we've become a partner of the @equitycharter.bsky.social.

We're proud to work together to champion equity and fairness, pioneering change in #digitalhealth.

➡️ Learn more here:

Also thank you to my fellow panel members Nina Goswami of Clifford Chance, Jeremy Crook @are-official.bsky.social and Meera Somji from Clusivity.

Images shows five ethnic minority people behind a desk at a conference as part of a plenary session.

Pleasure to discuss the importance of data, comms and engagement as part of strategies to tackle the ethnicity pay gap to this years’ #EPGS25

Huge thanks to Dianne Greyson and @ethnicitypaygap.bsky.social for inviting me.

A few of my Jan 2025 highlights
🌟speaking to inspiring individuals about their personal & professional antiracism journey.
🌟booking out our Sexual safety in the workplace event almost 3x over.
🌟said no to imposter syndrome & accepted 4 speaking invitations based on bit.ly/3NyZuXW
🌟my 20th 🩸 donation

“We know that black men are at a higher risk of getting prostate cancer, but this new data…shows that if you’re black, the odds are currently stacked even higher against you.”

Another preventable and unfair health inequality perpetuated, in part, by outdated guidance.

It’s extraordinary that it’s easier to get the victims of structural racism to shout louder than address the cause of their unequal treatment. When it comes to health inequalities, racism can be the difference between life and death.

Book cover for Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Cover is a geometric print in shades of orange, red and deep yellow with stylised silhouettes of two women surrounded the vines and white headed flowers (possibly cotton) facing each other

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12- Homegoing
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#20Books

Really important research by @jrf-uk.bsky.social on the link between ethnicity and * persistent very deep poverty* lasting for a number of years for Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Black African households in UK 👇🏽Has policy implications for addressing (high) levels of child poverty in these households.

Important insights from @jrf-uk.bsky.social on link between ethnicity and deep poverty.

From a health context we know that living in persistent poverty has a cumulative impact on and contributes to unfair and avoidable differences in health.

Book cover - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini. Image shows a female in orange red clothing and headscarf walking across a dry landscape

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11 - A Thousand Splendid Suns
#Books #Booksky
#BookChallenge
#20Books

Spines of all 7 of the Harry Potter books in order.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4 - The Harry Potter series
#Books #Booksky
#BookChallenge
#20Books

Join us on 10 December 2024 for our latest ‘Can we talk about race? event. We’ll be exploring the widening ethnic disparity between #NHS leadership and the workforce, and discussing the practical actions leaders are taking to support development of diverse talent pipelines

Book now ➡️ bit.ly/3ZwSIch

It’s critical that boards remain curious about the data that is presented to them. Only by asking the right questions will they be assured that their data is accurately representing the true
experience of staff within their organisations. #RaceEquality

Image of book cover for Assembly by Natasha Brown. Cover shows a pathway bordered by shrubs to large house.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 3 - Assembly by Natasha Brown
#Books #Booksky
#BookChallenge
#20Books

Breaking the rules but first read this back in sixth form and have read many times since!

Book cover of A suitable boy by Vikram Seth

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books #Booksky
#BookChallenge
#20Books

Book cover of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books #Booksky
#BookChallenge
#20Books

Join us at the Ethnicity Pay Gap Summit 2025. An event not to be missed

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Too Hot to Handle? Racism in Healthcare Too Hot to Handle? Racism in healthcareToo Hot to Handle' was a survey conducted with 1,300 NHS staff members. It looked at their experiences of racism within the NHS. The survey highlights the challe...

It's a Repost (I nearly said retweet😀)
Listen and then think about reading our report?
www.rogerkline.co.uk/post/too-hot...

Hello community. Reflecting after discussions in a meeting today.

❓What actions have you taken to demonstrate active white allyship?

❓For those from an ethnic minority background - what are the actions that you want to see/ would find most impactful? from white allies?

Tackling racism ‘must be core’ to 10-year health plan The government's 10-year plan will fail if it does not tackle racism in the health service, the chair of the NHS Confederation has said.

The success of any furure NHS plan will depend on the extent to which it embraces tackling ethnic and racial inequalities: www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...

I loved this book, so glad I did as not what I would pick up normally but it was coming up on every recommendation list for me. The evolution of a deep, enduring friendship, the way it spoke about love, loss and grief in ways which were relatable was beautiful.

I’ve started a health and race equality starter pack.

Please respond below if you want me to add you!

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Fantastic two days at #NHSP24

✅ Spoke as Chair of Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust on our amazing wellbeing hub - thank you NHS CT & @saffroncordery.bsky.social

✅ Keynotes from Julian Hartley Amanda Pritchard & Wes Streeting

✅ Fantastic breakouts

✅ Caught up with many brilliant colleagues

Muslims face ‘bleak and dystopian’ climate in UK, says head of thinktank Shabna Begum says racist riots will return if Islamophobia continues being ‘an acceptable currency’ in politics

Muslims face ‘bleak and dystopian’ climate in UK, says head of thinktank

Shabna Begum says racist riots will return if Islamophobia continues to be ‘an acceptable currency’ in politics

www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

Amazing! Thank you and please could you also add myself. Trying to rebuild my network in this new space!

a man in a leopard print shirt says " it 's a whole new day " Alt: a man in a leopard print shirt says " it 's a whole new day "

There is something wonderfully uplifting about rebuilding your NHS social media
community in a new, more positive space. The old one had begun to give me anxiety thanks to the trolls but the connections I’d built over the years meant to much for me to move away. Hello old friends and new!

Catsky is the entire reason we came here!