Roghieh Dehghan Zaklaki MA

Roghieh joined the Institute of Global Health at UCL in 2016 after having been awarded a two-year In-Practice Fellowship from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). In her current project, she aims to conduct a culture- and gender-critical analysis of the health impacts of sexual torture in the Afghani, Iranian and Kurdish refugees in the UK. This research idea is the result of her experience as a voluntary medico-legal report writer at Freedom from Torture (FFT), which coincided with her MA in Near and Middle Eastern studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). During that time she became acutely aware of the complex and multifaceted health impacts of torture, especially rape, as a particular form of trauma that is closely linked to one’s sense of identity.