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SOF | HERE & THERE
SOPHIE TURNER (M03-06)
Sophie has always been passionate
On her return from Lesvos, Sophie
about equality, health equity and human
continued to work in the Emergency
rights and had always wanted to pursue
Department and applied to be part
a career in healthcare and work in the
of the UKEMT in 2017. Since then, she
humanitarian field. After finishing her
has deployed to Samoa for a measles
A-levels, Sophie spent time in rural Ghana
outbreak (2019-2020), Lebanon for
gaining valuable hospital experience in a
Covid-19 (2020) and Lesotho for
limited-resource setting. Following this,
Covid-19 (2021) to support clinical
she undertook a 3-year BSc in Nursing
staff and strengthen their healthcare
at St. George’s University of London/
systems by: providing capacity
Kingston University where she achieved a
building activities to hospital teams;
First-Class Honours.
assisting with policy development and
implementation; assisting with the set-up
She went on to work in an Emergency
and re-organisation of existing facilities to
Trauma Unit in southwest London
streamline care and minimise the spread
where she spent six years specialising in
of infectious diseases; and providing
Emergency Nursing. Sophie continued
direct patient care.
her training and undertook certifications
in Advanced Life Support, Advanced
During this time Sophie also undertook an
Burns Management and Advanced
MSc in International Disaster Management
Trauma Nursing and a Diploma in Tropical
(2018-2020) at the Humanitarian Conflict
Nursing at the Liverpool School of Tropical
Response Institution (HCRI), part of the
Medicine. After extensive study and
University of Manchester, and achieved
clinical practice, Sophie deployed to
an MSc with Distinction. She has spoken at
the island of Lesvos in Greece in 2017,
public speaking events and has recently
where she worked with a medical NGO
co-written an academic paper which has
to provide emergency, infectious disease
been accepted by ‘Health Psychology
and chronic condition management to
Open’ and is awaiting publication.
refugees in Moria refugee camp, the
largest refugee camp in Europe. Sophie
She currently lives in Moss Side,
was also part of an emergency response
Manchester, a diverse, village-like
team to boat landings on the shoreline
community, yet still travels back to see
where she would respond in the depths of
her parents in Dennington and Occold,
night to provide emergency, life-saving
school friends Tiffany Didham, Laura
care to refugees landing by boat from
Wright and the Benneworth sisters, Emily
Turkey. Their journeys mainly started
and Christina. The College should be
in Africa, the Middle East and Asia
truly proud of such an ambassador who
where they fled political unrest, war and
appears to have packed in as much in little
persecution. It was here, in Lesvos, where
over a decade as most of us achieve in a
Sophie met her partner, Nathalie, who
lifetime!
was working as a medical translator.
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