Dr Amina Aitsi-Selmi MD PhD

That's it this week. You're on a digital device with food to eat, a roof over your head - and, hopefully, no bombs falling outside your window. I remember going to sleep in Algiers hearing heavy mortar rounds between the military and jihadists, and life somehow went on. We need so little to appreciate the sky. I want to be a voice that acknowledges you're doing fine, even if there are challenges, losses, and uncertainties. Watching Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, I was r

Do you notice the harms of social media and smart phones but find them hard to avoid? This week, the Wellcome Trust Digital Determinants of Health hub was launched and will start developing the first national cohort to answer some of the questions about the harms of social media, led by Dr Amrit Kaur Purba. This is a little personal for me because Amrit and I worked on choosing and crafting this career path through coaching not too long ago. There is very good evidence that s

I believe empathy isn’t something you do, but what happens when you stop 'doing'. When a German philosopher invented the word ‘empathy’ (Einfühlung) in 1873, it’s unlikely he saw it as a leadership style. Vischer described the capacity to ‘feel into’ a piece of art and experience what it evokes. In 1909, the word Einfühlung was translated into ‘empathy’ and only in the 1950s migrated into psychology, communication, and eventually leadership, describing our ability to resonate