Rageshri is a doctor, researcher and author. She is an NHS Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine based in London.
MBBS, FRCP, MSc, BSc, DipHIV, DipGUM, DFSRH
Rageshri was born in Mumbai, raised in Essex and is now based in London where she lives with her husband. She qualified as a doctor in 2004, specialising in sexual health and HIV medicine in 2008. She currently works as an NHS Consultant. Rageshri is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University London, where as part of the SHARE Collaborative, her research focuses on the improving health equity in sexual health, HIV and beyond. She has over 40 peer reviewed publications including the first UK study investigating intimate partner violence amongst women living with HIV and several studies on racial and gender disparities in health, which have been cited in national guidelines. Rageshri was named as a ‘Woman Changing the World’ on International Women’s Day in 2019 by iNews, for her work advocating for the needs of racially minoritised women in sexual health.
Rageshri has held numerous advisory and charity positions for organisations including the British HIV Association, British Association of Sexual Health and HIV, 4M Mentor Mothers Network CIC, SWIFT Supporting Women with HIV network, NAZ Project London and Race and Health.
Rageshri is an experienced speaker and writer for general and specialist audiences. She was an inaugural Wellcome Collection x Spread the Word writer awardee where she was supported to write the proposal for her debut non-fiction book UNHEARD: The Medical Practice of Silencing. She has also contributed an essay to No One Talks About This Stuff. She has written for the Lancet, BMJ Leader, Media Diversified, Discover Society and Cost of Living and appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire Show, Channel 5 News, BBC Woman’s Hour, BBC World Service, BBC Sounds and BBC Asian Network among others. Rageshri is also regularly invited to speak on podcasts, webinars and at community health events.
Academic works
Differences in HIV clinical outcomes amongst heterosexuals in the United Kingdom by ethnicity
R Dhairyawan, H Okhai, T Hill, CA Sabin
Aids 35 (11), 1813-1821
The experience of intimate partner violence among older women: A narrative review
N Pathak, R Dhairyawan, S Tariq
Maturitas 121, 63-75
R Dhairyawan, A Shah, J Bailey, H Mohammed
Sexually Transmitted Infections 100 (1), 17-24
I Abubakar, L Gram, S Lasoye, ET Achiume, L Becares, GK Bola, ...
The Lancet 400 (10368), 2137-2146