Samara Linton

Dr Samara Linton is an awardwinning writer and researcher whose work primarily focuses on health, race, gender and society. She co-edited the Africa All-Party Parliamentary Group’s commissioned report ‘Lessons from Ebola-Affected Communities’ in 2016 and The Colour of Madness: Exploring BAME Mental Health in the UK in 2018. Linton is a University of Cambridge and University College London graduate. She worked as a junior doctor in east London before joining the BBC in 2019.