Sarah Derveeuw

Phd researcher

Department of Public Health and Primary Care

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

I am a PhD student working within the Equity in Healthcare Unit, within the Department of Public Health and Primary Care. My project seeks to document ethno-racial and migrant-background inequalities in preventive healthcare uptake (mainly cancer screening), applying an intersectional and structural lens, in the Belgian context. In addition to my research, I am a member of Afromedica, a not-for-profit organisation committed to promoting equity and addressing discrimination in healthcare. Prior to joining UGent I worked in the UK as a research assistant supporting an RCT of a psychological therapy for depression, for people living with HIV in Zimbabwe. I then worked clinically as an assistant psychologist in a secondary mental health service for dementia and older people's mental health in Sussex, UK. I have a BSc in Clinical Psychology from the University of Kent and an MSc in Global Mental Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and King's College London.

Email: Sarah.Derveeuw@UGent.be

Research themes:

Health, health care and psychosocial well-being || Discrimination, racism and prejudice