Doctors at War: Witnesses and targets
Date: Wed Apr 29 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) at 17:30 - 20:30
Location: Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College, CB3 9DF
An event by the Healthcare in Conflict Research Network, in collaboration with the Cambridge Salon and War Child. To reserve a place, please register online. About this event This event features a conversation between Saleyha Ahsan and Rob Williams. We are looking at the changing nature of war, of emergency medicine and of the media, through the experiences of two people who have seen how these have changed radically over the last thirty years. We will explore how the information war is conducted in 2026, as corporate media has lost its economic model and its legitimacy. Now, stories are increasingly told through partisan social media and by citizen journalists and witnesses – doctors in particular. Saleyha Ahsan trained at Sandhurst as an Officer Cadet before becoming a medical doctor, te
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