The role of culture in health workers' approach to LGBTQ+ patients - a conversation with Alfonso Pezella

Alfonso Pezella is a mental health lecturer at Middlesex University, and he has been part of the IENE9  research project that looks at intercultural training for nurses and health care workers in Europe with a focus on LGBTQ+ rights.

It was a broad discussion on the role of culture, the health consequences for LGBTQ+ persons and how training can look in this area. We also talked about how this approach can be used in health research collaborations where nurses and health care workers often play a significant role, and how we can use their findings when working with Horizon Europe and the EU Health Programme.

Our talk about internationalisation and being LGBTQ+ led to Alfonso sharing his own story of growing up gay in Italy and moving to the UK. We hope you all appreciate it.

We learned a lot from the chat and we'll be following both the IENE9 project and Alfonso's research closely in the future.

You can read more about the IENE9 project here.
Follow Alfonso at Twitter: @AlfPezella

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