Hannah Barham-Brown

Hannah Barham-Brown is a GP, Women’s rights activist, charity ambassador, and writer. And she uses a wheelchair. In her TEDxNHS talk, Hannah describes the importance of the NHS workforce reflecting the population it serves and how her disability makes her an asset to the workforce and not a burden or a quota. Her call to actions is for her audience to champion diversity, and to be a ‘roll model’.

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Hannah Barham-Brown is a junior doctor, and Deputy Chair for professional Issues of the British Medical Association’s Junior Doctors Committee. Before medicine, she graduated from Durham University with a BA Hons in Combined Arts, and from Northumbria University with a BSc Hons in Paediatric Nursing.

As a #WonkyMedic, Hannah advocates for people with disabilities in the NHS and society. She is also an Ambassador for disability charity ‘My AFK’ (Action for Kids). Hannah regularly works with the media: She blogs for HuffPostUK, writes for national newspapers, and appears on news reports internationally. She campaigns for better access for wheelchairs, having crowdfunded for her own chair.

While shamelessly using her disability as an excuse to skip ‘leg day’, she’s completed a disability triathlon and a 10k run…so far.

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Hannah Barham-Brown

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