
Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan
Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan is a doctor, researcher and science communicator. She qualified in 2004 and is an NHS Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust and Deputy Director of the SHARE Collaborative for Health Equity, Queen Mary University of London. Her clinical work, research and advocacy focus on improving health equity, particularly at the intersections of gender and ethnicity. She has held numerous national charity and policy positions and regularly works with patient organisations. Rageshri was named as a ‘Woman Changing the World’ on International Women’s Day in 2019 by iNews. Rageshri is the author of Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing (Trapeze, 2024) and has contributed an essay to the anthology No One Talks About This Stuff (Unbound, 2024). She is an inaugural Wellcome Collection x Spread the Word writer awardee (2022).