5th year medical student. Name: Hephzibah Adegoke Category: StudentRole: 5th year medical studentTime active with Edinburgh Medical School: 2020 - present I co-founded the African Caribbean Medical Society so new black students could join in and feel supported right from the beginning. We’ve created a space that helps students connect socially and explore academic work too. People create community in lots of different ways, but I hope the society will have a lasting impact as the younger students carry it on. Hephzibah Adegoke is a British-Nigerian fifth-year medical student at the University of Edinburgh. Along with fellow medical student Ebo Anyebe, she co-founded the African Caribbean Medical Society, creating an empowering space for black students across medicine, medical science and allied healthcare disciplines. The society organises social events that foster community, alongside academic events that explore African and Caribbean health through a decolonial lens, to demystify and to reframe understandings of black health and wellbeing. Hephzibah is a founding board member and mentor at Black Women at Edinburgh, Scotland’s first society for black women in higher education. Her projects have contributed to health literacy, wellbeing and radical rest. The society has opened dialogue on the unique challenges faced by black women in a predominantly white institution, including the launch of Nurtured, the magazine by black women at the University. This article was published on 2026-03-11
