Episode SIX of Philsophers Chatting with Clinicians welcomes Philosophy welcomes Dr Theresa Aoko Otieno and Otieno Martin Ong'Wen to discuss health and pain through the sociao-cultural lens and what we can learn about culturally competent care from the Kenyan perspective.

About the speakers:

Dr Theresa Otieno is currently the Youth Representative at the National Technical Working Group on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Readiness Project.  Prior to this role she worked as the Thematic Lead Project Assistant on Governance, Social and Ethnic Cohesion and Civic Spaces.  She recently gained her PhD in Environmental Policy after studying Philosophy at the Bachelor and Masters level.  Dr Otieno is particularly interested in how community and environment come together and how we can create systems of cohesion to better serve the planet and humanity.

Linked In: Dr Theresa Otieno

Otieno Martin Ong'Wen, known to the international physio community as the @KenyanPhysio for his work on Instagram, is a Physiotherapist, educator and speaker.  He works in a rehabilitation space seeing people with pain, injury and those recovering from cancer.

Twitter: @OngwenMartin

Laura Rathbone is an advanced physiotherapist working with people experiencing complex and persistent pain, as well supporting clinicians to develop their biopsychosocial practice, update their pain knowledge, integrate psychological processes into their rehab practice and maintains the community reading and discussion group Pain Geeks