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Bnar Talabani

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Dr. Bnar Talabani, MBE, arrived in the United Kingdom in 1998 as a refugee, having fled Saddam Hussein’s regime. She graduated from Cardiff University in 2013 and is now training as a kidney and transplant doctor. She is one of the founding members of Muslim Doctors Cymru, which was formed in 2020 to combat COVID-19 vaccine myths. She later joined Team Halo, a United Nations initiative to combat misinformation, and has also volunteered with the British Society for Immunology to create science backed content on vaccines.

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