London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

LSHTM is hosting a panel discussion to focus on the experiences of discrimination and racism experienced by the East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities during the coronavirus outbreak and will explore how ESEA communities have responded to address the impact. This follows a seminar held in March 2020 on COVID-driven discrimination and racism.  

This session will be moderated by Edmond Ng, Senior Statistical Analyst, LSHTM. He organised the first seminar on COVID-driven discrimination and racism at the LSHTM in March 2020 and called for unity across all communities to overcome hate and division in his editorial published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in April 2020. Edmond is based in the Director's Office at LSHTM. 

Speakers 

Dr Diana Yeh, Associate Dean Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, University of London 

Diana is Associate Dean of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, City, University of London where she also works as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Culture and the Creative Industries in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on race and racisms, migration, cultural politics and activism. She is currently Principal Investigator of two projects: 

• ‘Responding to COVID-19 Anti-Asian Racial Violence through Community Care, Solidarity and Resistance’ funded by Resourcing Racial Justice and the SASS Higher Education Innovation Fund
• ‘Becoming East and Southeast Asian: Race, Ethnicity and Youth Politics of Belonging’, funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme.

She has recently published an article ‘Covid-19, Anti-Asian Racial Violence, and The Borders of Chineseness’.   

Kit Chiu, Transactional Analysis counsellor  

Originally from Hong Kong, Kit Chiu works as a Transactional Analysis counsellor (Dip., MBACP) in charity settings and private practice in London. Her work focuses on supporting and empowering members of ESEA communities by providing culturally sensitive talking therapy.  

Jabez Lam, Manager, Hackney Chinese Community Services  

Jabez has been a community worker and activist on Chinese community affairs for over 30 years and is the founder of 5 Chinese community centres in the UK. Among his numerous acts of activism, he led a high-profile community campaign in response to the false allegations against the Chinese community as the direct source of the foot-and-mouth outbreak of 2001. The false allegations began with misleading reports by the media of the UK government following up on a lead of a Chinese restaurant in Newcastle being the original source of the outbreak.  

Dahye Yim, research degree student, LSHTM

Dahye is a research degree student at the Department of Global Health and Development in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at LSHTM. Her project aims to examine gender norms as a barrier to accessing sexual reproductive health (SRH) services for adolescent girls in South Korea. Her research interest lies in access to healthcare, health equity, gender equality and social determinants of health. Dahye has been engaged in research projects promoting adolescent girls’ SRH and healthcare access in South Korea, Cambodia and Lao PDR during the last years. Her recent research was about the precariousness of young adults in South Korea and their self-rated health. She was based in Berlin since 2017 working at Korea Verband e.V and has been actively engaged in activism on feminism and decolonisation for the last few years such as the International Women Space (IWS) radio project on the topic of “Anti-Asian Racism, The Model Minority Myth and COVID-19”.