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Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan

(She/Her/Hers)

Lead For Medical Humanities; Consultant Physician in Sexual Health and HIV; Honorary Senior Lecturer

rageshri.dhairyawan@nhs.net Linktree

Dr Dhairyawan has worked in sexual health and HIV in East London since 2008 and is a Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at QMUL. She has a track record of effective multidisciplinary and multiagency research collaborations within NHS clinical settings, including with colleagues from the social sciences, voluntary sector and patient communities. She led on the first UK study exploring the links between intimate partner violence and HIV.

The recipient of grants from BHIVA, Public Health England and Fast Track Cities, she is nationally recognised for her expertise on health inequalities and in championing the needs of racially minoritised women in sexual health/HIV, through her work with NAZ, BHIVA, AIDSMAP, Positively UK, 4M Mentor Mothers, SWIFT, and BASHH. In addition to her academic publications, she has been written and spoken on health equity for several media platforms including BBC Sounds, BBC Asian Network the Lancet, Race and Health, BMJ Leader, Discover Society, Cost of Living and Media Diversified. She was an inaugural Wellcome Collection x Spread the Word awardee where she was supported to write Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing which is to be published by Trapeze in July 2024. She was named by iNews as a ‘Woman Changing the World’ on International Woman’s Day in 2019.

Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan