Speaking up for yourself, your specialty and for others with Rageshri Dhairyawan

Описание: Rageshri Dhairyawan (she/her) is a Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. She is studying for a masters in social epidemiology at University College London. Her research and advocacy focus on improving the health of minoritised populations. She has held several national charity and policy positions.

She is an experienced science communicator, appearing on programmes like BBC Woman’s Hour and The Victoria Derbyshire Show. She writes regularly for the Lancet and BMJ Leader and is an inaugural Welcome Collection x Spread the Word Writing awardee.

In this video, you’ll hear Dr Dhairyawan talk about what she calls “the medical practice of silencing” – how societal bias can affect who gets to speak up and who gets heard in healthcare and research; how she found her voice, and how she tries to use it to help raise the voice of others. She’ll go through her career journey - from her childhood in Essex as an immigrant from India, and what inspired her to pursue a career in sexual health. She’ll talk about the research she’s been involved in, the challenges she’s encountered, and the importance of the patient community in leading research to make impactful change. She’ll also be sharing her personal experience of being a patient, what it taught her, and how it drives her activism and advocacy today.

Dr Dhairyawan discusses how the role of doctors can include trying to improve patients’ health outside the consultation room as well as within, and how she’s attempted this. She will talk about what she’s learned about staying engaged in social justice work, in a balanced way.

00:00:00 Start
00:00:20 2 minute introduction
00:01:34 Tell me about yourself
00:03:09 What made you interested in research?
00:05:28 What was your experience of being a patient?
00:09:59 How did being a woman and a person of colour shape your experience as a patient?
00:11:29 How did you find your voice?
00:15:41 How do you help others find their voice?
00:17:03 Can you describe your work with local communities?
00:19:09 What made you want to share your story as a patient?
00:20:33 How has your experience as a patient, shaped your practice as a doctor?
00:21:39 How does testimonial injustice play out in the workplace?
00:25:08 How do you maintain your own well-being?
00:28:50 What are some of the key lessons you have learnt in your journey so far?
00:30:24 Reflective Questions
00:30:50 Close and please subscribe

Below are web-links to relevant articles and pieces Rageshri speaks about:
The Medical Practice of Silencing:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...

Intimate partner violence in women living with HIV attending an inner city clinic in the UK: prevalence and associated factors:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...

Differences in HIV clinical outcomes amongst heterosexuals in the United Kingdom by ethnicity:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

NAZ charity:
https://www.naz.org.uk/

Contact details:
Twitter handle: @crageshri
LinkeIN profile:   / rageshri-dhairyawan-2508ab18b  
Staff or academic profile: https://shareresearch.org.uk/team/
Email address: [email protected]