Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

Dr Hannah Barham-Brown (she/her) is the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lecturer at University of Dundee School of Medicine, and also works as a Career Start GP, working to create Gender Services for NHS Tayside.

An internationally-acclaimed speaker and activist, Hannah is regularly commissioned to speak and consult on diversity, sexuality, and disability, having given two TEDx talks.  She has authored chapters on how to support disabled medical students, been interviewed for a range of books on disability and gender, and has also worked as a medical and sensitivity reader for Penguin Random House Publishers.

Before studying postgraduate medicine, Hannah graduated from Durham University with a BA Hons in Combined Arts (English, with Theology and Arabic), and from Northumbria University with a BSc Hons in Paediatric Nursing.

Hannah is a Company Member of UN Women UK, an Ambassador of the UK Design Council, disability charity ‘My AFK’, gynaecological cancer charity ‘The Eve Appeal’, and the ‘Good Grief Trust’, as well as a ‘Role Model’ for the Lightyear Foundation.

Due to her work on closing the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine, diversifying the medical profession, and disability campaigning, Hannah has been named as one of the Health Service Journal’s 100 Most Influential People in Health, as well as named on the Shaw Trust’s 2018, 2019 and 2020 ‘Power Lists’ – making her one of the 100 most Influential Disabled People in the UK.