Dorcas Gwata

Dorcas Gwata began her working life in the UK as an NHS hospital cleaner and is now an award-winning mental-health nurse, a global mental health consultant and an adviser at Global Health Partnerships. She is an accident-and-emergency specialist nurse and has worked within multi-agency teams in the UK and with global-health partnerships focusing on Africa and Asia. Her work with young people and families affected by gang culture in London grew out of innovative evidence-based research in low-income countries extrapolated to high-income countries, improving mental health outcomes in vulnerable groups while addressing health inequalities in the UK. The Street Clinic is her first book.