Dr Hannah Barham-Brown (she/her) is a GP in Scotland, working to create Gender Services for NHS Tayside, and teaching at the School of Medicine of the University of Dundee as an Honorary Clinical Lecturer. Alongside her clinical roles, she is a Governor of the Motability Foundation, and former Deputy Leader of the UK Women’s Equality Party – the first visibly disabled Political Party Deputy Leader in UK History. An internationally-acclaimed speaker and activist, Hannah is regularly commissioned to speak and consult on diversity, sexuality, and disability, having given two TEDx talks (TEDxNHS and TEDxExeter) on the need for diversity in employment and in the NHS. She has written for a variety of publications, including the Guardian, Mirror, Times Red Box, Metro and Yorkshire Post, and has contributed to a number of non-fiction books, having 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. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Hannah works to support disabled people in politics, employment, travel, health and education. Hannah brings her experiences as a neurodivergent, Queer, wheelchair-using woman to life for audiences with a combination of wit, motivation and her unique way of seeing the world.

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. She regularly works with international, national and local media, (including NBC, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, BBC Breakfast and Sky News). 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. She is currently writing her first book.

This website is, due to Hannah’s somewhat packed diary, a tad neglected in terms of regular updates, but it shares some of her blog posts, reviews and revision notes from medical school – these may now be a tad out of date, but hopefully helpful!

If you’d like to book Hannah to speak at an event, write for your publication or to provide consultation services for your company, please email her at hello@hannahbarhambrown.com. Check out her LinkTree for more examples of her work here: https://linktr.ee/hannahbarhambrown (photo below by Tom Trevatt).