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Programme
9.00 - 9.30 Registration, Tea & Coffee
9.30 - 9.45 Opening
Melba Wilson
National Programme Lead, Mental Health Equalities, National Mental Health Developement Unit, DOH 
9.45 - 10.00 Chair 
Professor Sashi Sashidharan
Honorary Professor and Co-director of Centre for Research in Ethnicity & Mental Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
10.00 - 10.50 Ethnicity and Psychiatric Detention: Racism, Attribution and  Help-seeking
Professor Swaran Singh

Professor of Social & Community Psychiatry, Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Warwick
10.50 - 11.40 Ethnic Variations in Mental Health Admissions: There's More to Race Than Racism
Professor Tom Burns
Professor of Social Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
11.40 - 12.00 Morning session Q&A
12.00 -1.00 Lunch
1.00 - 1.50 Ethnicity and the impact of Mental Health Legislation
Professor Chris Heginbotham OBE

Deputy Head of International School for Communities, Rights and Inclusion, Professor of Mental Health Policy and Management, University of Central Lancashire
1.50-2.40 Community Responses to Compulsion: From ‘Circles of Fear’ to Cycles of Engagement
Dr Philip Thomas

Honorary visiting Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Bradford 
2.40 - 3.00 Tea & Coffee
3.00 - 3.50 Ethnicity and Outcome of Appeal After Detention Under the Mental Health Act 1983
Dr Ramin Nilforooshan
Specialist Registrar in Neuropsychiatry, Scutari Clinic, Adamson Centre, St Thomas's Hospital 
3.50 - 4.10 Afternoon session Q&A
4.10 - 4.30  Plenary, Closure & Evaluation sheets