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The #AtlanticFellows program empowers communities of emerging leaders to advance fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.
Recently, our Executive Director Lysa John joined Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia in Bangkok. Her reflection celebrates Fellows who lead with purpose, navigate conflict and build solidarity through empathy and shared learning.
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Lessons in leadership: The Equity Initiative
I had the privilege of spending the day with an extraordinary group of leaders in Bangkok, Thailand this week. They come from very different disciplines (some are doctors, others researchers, educator...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Join Creative Brainwaves at dlr Libraries on 14 Nov! Explore how the creative arts support brain health through talks, workshops, & performances promoting wellbeing. 🎭🧠 #BrainHealth #Creativity

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Creative Brainwaves: Talks & Workshops - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Creative Brainwaves at dlr Libraries on 14 Nov. Explore how creative arts support brain health with talks, workshops, and performances promoting wellbeing.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Director of Innovations & Partnerships at the Atlantic Institute, Harpinder Collacott, shared insights on rethinking how citizens, governments and institutions share decision-making power. She calls for local leadership, fairness and accountability to build more just and sustainable societies.
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Are you working to build a fairer world? 🌍

Applications are now open for the 2026-27 Atlantic Fellows for Social & Economic Equity (AFSEE) programme, a funded fellowship for social change leaders at the London School of Economics - LSE.

Learn more: afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/news/a...
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Urban growth threatens the lives of communities living in cities.

On #WorldCitiesDay, Kotchakorn Voraakhom, landscape architect and Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia, urges urban designers to respect nature to create an environment where communities and innovation thrive.
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“Some seats you take; others you build.”

This #BlackHistoryMonth, neuroscientist and Atlantic Fellow Chi Udeh-Momoh reflects on belonging, equity and global collaboration in #BrainHealth.
Atlantic Fellows | Belonging across borders: An African academic’s journey in brain health
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October 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
AI is transforming society - but at what cost?

Join Laura Bates, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity @nasser.wiki and moderator Alice Wroe to explore AI’s ethical, social and equity risks.

📅 Nov 17, 2025
🕰️ 15:00pm GMT
📍 Atlantic Institute XR Lab, Oxford (In-person & live webinar)
October 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
“Seekers”, a film by Atlantic Fellows Mahoro Semege & Tendai Chisirimunhu Kathemba, tells the story of asylum seekers in South Africa.

Inspired by Mahoro’s own refugee journey, the film invites audiences to see asylum seekers as resilient people with visions to challenge the world’s indifference.
Atlantic Fellows | Atlantic Fellows’ film “Seekers” to be screened at a film festival
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October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Each year, the Atlantic Institute celebrates the ever-growing community of Atlantic Fellows driving equity and change across the world.

This year’s Global Community Book features the values and impact of more than 1,000 Fellows from across the 7 Atlantic programs.
October 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Last night we celebrated Adeniyan Adekemi, an Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity and Roux Prize recipient, whose storybooks and VR film are transforming how children in rural communities learn, dream and lead healthier lives.
October 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Congratulations to Adekemi Adeniyan, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity, who has received the Roux Prize!

The prize is an annual award from David and Barbara Roux and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, honoring global health leaders who combat health inequities in their communities.
Roux Prize 2025 Recipient: Dr. Adekemi Adeniyan
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October 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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In a world often defined by scarcity, this year’s edition of the Rhodes Forum on #TechAndSociety2025 with Equitech Futures invites us to reimagine abundance on a global scale.

📅 8 Nov 2025
📍Oxford & online
🎟️ Register at bit.ly/TechAndSociety2025
October 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Atlantic Fellows Maritza Pintado-Caipa, Alex Kornhuber and Oscar Ramirez, with collaborator Kate Irving, highlight the barriers to health care access among some of Peru’s most underserved communities. Read their recommendations.

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October 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Atlantic Fellows Maritza Pintado-Caipa, Alex Kornhuber and Oscar Ramirez, with collaborator Kate Irving, highlight the barriers to health care access among some of Peru’s most underserved communities. Read their recommendations.

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October 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This #WorldMentalHealthDay, Atlantic Fellow Dr. Maymunah Yusuf Kadiri reminds us that storytelling is a medicine. Not the kind prescribed in a bottle, but the kind that reconnects humanity.

Read more: www.atlanticfellows.org/post/storyte...
October 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Join us for the opening of our Artist in Residence Rebecca Korang's exhibition 'on Black poppies (& Other seeds)' responding to the theme of 'Radical Joy' at Rhodes House on Monday 20 October at 18:00. Everyone is welcome. Sign up for free now: bit.ly/RadicalJoyLa...
September 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
With the climate summit, COP30, on the horizon in November, Atlantic Fellow Peter Gan Kim Soon (@GWFellow) says climate justice means talking to grassroots organizations and communities living on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
October 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“When older persons drive change, everyone moves forward.”

Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health Siobhan Casey reflects on how older people are actively shaping our society, and driving advocacy and innovation at local and global levels.

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Atlantic Fellows | Older persons driving local and global action: Aspirations, well-being and rights
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October 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Believed to be the first Indigenous woman to enroll at @ox.ac.uk, Mākereti Papakura has received a posthumous degree 100 years after she began her studies.

Learn more: www.atlanticfellows.org/news/posthum...
September 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Watch Aline Nogueira Haas and Kunle Adewale, Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health, join experts in arts and health at the Brazil International Arts & Health Festival.

🗓️ Sept. 25
🕰️ 9 am RIO Time
💻 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
(1/2) #InternationalDayOfSignLanguage reminds us that true leadership means building inclusive societies.

Tshepiso Mokoena (Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity), reflects on how growing up as a Child of Deaf Adults shaped her identity and why storytelling is a powerful tool for justice.
September 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
📢 Happening today: Our final Road To COP session!

Join us to wrap up the series with a conversation about how movements, frontline communities and local leaders can ramp up pressure for positive results after #COP30.

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Don’t miss the last episode of Road To COP!

Our panelists will talk about how movements, from local communities to global allies, can ramp up pressure and push for real outcomes at #COP30. 🌍🔥

🌐 Live on Zoom
🗣️ Trilingual
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September 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Don’t miss the last episode of Road To COP!

Our panelists will talk about how movements, from local communities to global allies, can ramp up pressure and push for real outcomes at #COP30. 🌍🔥

🌐 Live on Zoom
🗣️ Trilingual
➡️ bit.ly/4n75vuZ
September 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Join us for this #BlackHistoryMonth event exploring the legal, political, and community-based racial justice work that emerged 40 years ago from the Broadwater Farm riots.

📅 Wednesday, October 1st
📍 Old Theatre (Old Building) & online
🕕 6:30-8:00 pm

Register here: bit.ly/4glHaze
Racism and racial justice | Broadwater Farm uprising
6.30pm Weds 1 Oct | Sharon Grant, Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Roxana Willis | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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September 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
What if a conference began with walking shoes instead of lecture halls?

Walking the Talk for Dementia 2025 brought 85 people from 30 countries together on the Camino de Santiago - building connection, breaking stigma and reimagining dementia care.

#EquityInBrainHealth #AtlanticFellows
Atlantic Fellows | Walking the Talk for Dementia: A journey beyond diagnosis
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September 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM