Natasha Howard is Head of Knowledge & Library Services at North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT). Natasha is a Fellow of the CILIP: the Library and Information Association. She has over 20 years of experience in the library and information sector and was joint winner of the CILIP Knowledge & Information Management (K&IM) Special Interest Group and UK e-Information Group (UKeIG) Information Manager of the Year Award 2020. Natasha is passionate about health inequalities and health and digital literacy. She is a trustee of Success For All Educational Trust (SFAET), a multi academy school trust. In her spare time she enjoys running (slowly) and can often be found participating and volunteering at local park runs.                                

Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan is a physician, researcher, and science communicator. Rageshri has been an NHS Consultant in Sexual and HIV Medicine since 2012. She led the HIV service at Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust from 2013-17 when it was awarded ‘Clinic of the Year for Ethnic Minority Patients’ by the charity, Naz.

Dr. Dhairyawan is an inaugural Wellcome Collection x Spread the Word awardee( 2022). She has appeared on The Victoria Derbyshire Show, Channel 5 News, BBC Woman’s Hour, BBC World Service, BBC Sounds, BBC Asian Network, Masala Podcast, Global Health Lives and Race and Health podcasts. Rageshri chaired the British HIV Association External Relations Group from 2017-21, leading on its communication strategy to patients, healthcare professionals, the media and public. She has written for The Lancet, BMJ Leader, Media Diversified, Discover Society and Cost of Living. Rageshri’s own experiences of being unheard as a patient and her work with minoritised communities, inspired her to speak up about injustice in healthcare leading to her authoring Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing.

Social media links

 X: @crageshri 

instagram: @RageshriWrites

website: www.drrageshri.com