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Hier noch eine kurze Biografie von Dr. Wakithi Mabaso:

„The first black African to achieve consecutive academic honours cum laude awards at his high school (Kearsney College), Wakithi graduated from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, with an MBChB degree cum laude.

Publishing the country's largest study on depression and anxiety in medical students at the time, his work grew to influence institutional mental health policy and national media initiatives, earning him nomination for a South African Health Excellence, Rising Star Award. His role on the University of Kwa Zulu Natal Junior Doctor Mentorship programme brought his work full circle towards implementing programmes for the improvement of junior doctors’ wellbeing.

As an aspiring clinician-scientist passionate about mental health he is reading for an MSc Global Health Science & Epidemiology at the University of Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship, where he is currently working on his MSc thesis with the OxWell Team at the Department of Psychiatry which runs an annual student survey in approximately 200 schools in England. His research will look at the associations between public and private social media accounts and anxiety and depression in adolescents and will include a small consideration on adolescent privacy risks involved in online disclosure. He will read for a second MSc Clinical & Therapeutic Neuroscience in the 2023/24 academic year after which he hopes to expand his skillset in a variety of industries before returning to South Africa to specialise in Psychiatry.

In his spare time, he enjoys CrossFit, art and introspection, loves nature and is also learning German.”