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Philomene Uwamaliya

Nursing and Advanced Practice

Faculty of Health

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Philomene is Project Lead for the Resource Hub for Professionals who support Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Migrant Populations & Humanitarian Champions Programme for Asylum Seekers, Migrant Populations. Mental Health First Aid Instructor & Suicide Prevention Trainer.

Philomène has been a registered mental health nurse since 2006 and holds an MSc in Public Health (International Development) and currently pursuing a Ph.D. via published work. She has five years of experience working in primary care and public health with specific programmes to increase life expectancy and promote health and well-being for Asylum seekers, Refugees, and Migrant populations. Since 2011 Philomène has been working as a Senior Lecturer at the Liverpool John Moores University in the school of Nursing and Allied Health.

She is a recipient of various awards, including the prestigious Mary Seacole Leadership Award (2016), which enabled her to develop the Online Resource Hub for professionals caring for asylum seekers and refugees. Her other awards include the Black History Month Award for Outstanding Contribution from the Regional Director of the Royal College of Nursing (2018) and the Vice-Chancellor Rising Star Award and Staff Citizenship Award from Liverpool John Moores University (2014).

Philomène is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and a Member of the Society for Social Medicine, the European Public Health Association, The Expert Consortium on Refugee and Migrant Health. She proactively uses these memberships to network, collaborate, enhance her knowledge and skills, and lobby policy change.

Membership of a professional body

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) https://www.nmc.org.uk/: March 2006 – Present

Memberships:
- Migration research Global Network https://migrationresearch.com/my-profile March 2021 - Present
- HEE Global Health Partnerships https://global.hee.nhs.uk/ March 2021 - Present
- Society for Social Medicine https://socsocmed.org.uk/: July 2018 - Present
- Member of the Expert Consortium on Refugee and Migrant Health, Doctors of the World https://www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/who-we-are/: March 2018 - Present
- European Public Health Association https://eupha.org/: July 2018 - Present
- Royal Society for Public Health https://www.rsph.org.uk/: August 2018 - Present
- The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health https://www.acamh.org/category/members/: Nov 2019 - Present
- The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants https://www.jcwi.org.uk/: January 2020 - Present

Media coverage

Survivors Speak Out at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news/survivors-speak-out-foreign-and-commonwealth-office

Prevention and Eradication of Torture, European Parliament
https://uk.upf.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=548:prevention-and-eradication-of-torture-brussels-elc&catid=73:elc&Itemid=195

Meeting the needs of torture survivors in the UK
https://redress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/June-Meeting-the-needs-of-torture-survivors-in-the-UK.pdf

Homeless and Inclusion Health
http://www.homelessnessandhealth.co.uk/events/2019/philomene-uwamaliya/

Former refugee wins top nursing award
https://rcni.com/newsroom/news/former-refugee-wins-top-nursing-award-69431

Can Europe do more to advance human rights?
https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news/can-europe-do-more-to-advance-human-rights

A new online resource hub to help health care professionals signpost refugees and asylum seekers to support services has been created by a senior lecturer in mental health at LJMU
https://www.kqliverpool.co.uk/news/mental-health-lecturer-launches-website-help-medical-professionals-support-asylum-seekers-refugees/

Champions, take the lead on improving care for refugees and asylum seekers
https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/newsroom/news/champions-take-lead-improving-care-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-144661

Degrees

2021, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Executive Leadership Programme
2018, Public Health, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Suicide Prevention Trainer
2017, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, PGCertLTHE
2015, Mental Health First Aid England, United Kingdom, Mental Health First Aid Instructor
2014, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, MSc Public Health International Development
2011, University of Salford, United Kingdom, Post Graduate Certificate - BME Mental Health & Community Development
2006, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, Diploma -Mental Health Nursing

Certifications

2003, Counselling on Merseyside Pastoral and Support Service, Merseyside, Introduction to counselling
University of Lincoln and Mental Health Development Unit, London, Approved National Training for Race Equality and Cultural Capability

Academic appointments

Senior Lecturer Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Education, Health and Community, Liverpool John Moores University, 2011 - present
Honorary Lecturer, School of Nursing (Mental Health), Liverpool John Moores University, 2007 - 2011

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