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| 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 |
