Alina
Alina trained as a doctor, before moving to health improvement with a focus on BAME communities. Within this role she worked with women’s groups from diverse backgrounds in projects which encouraged conversations about mental health using art.
Name: Alina Mirza
Years: 1990s – 2000s
Alina trained as a doctor, before moving to health improvement with a focus on BAME communities. Within this role she worked with women’s groups from diverse backgrounds in projects which encouraged conversations about mental health using art.
She is now a festival programme, and co-ordinates the UK Asian Film Festival.
Excerpts:
“The perception of mental health is taken immediately as an illness …. well, mental health, we are not talking about illness, it’s about something we all have.”