Khadija Owusu

Dr Khadija Owusu is on a mission to support a pipeline of black students into the medical profession. A workforce which represents its population will create medicine that is safer and more effective. For Khadija it’s as simple as ‘start where you are, use what you have and do what you can’.

Representation creates medicine that saves lives

Khadija is an award-winning Leader, Speaker and Junior Doctor. She is the Founder of The Like Her Project (Ghana), Director of Programmes at Melanin Medics, an Ambassador at the GUBA-Enterprise and a Trustee for the charity Raising Futures Kenya. Khadija is a change agent, and a voice for Black and Ethnic minority aspiring medics, medical students and doctors as she works to tackle issues on equality, diversity, and inclusion. She also has special interests in female empowerment and global health.

She has been a guest of Michelle Obama at the White House; won the Women in STEM Award by HRH Princess Ann. In addition to this, she has spoken at various national and international conferences, is selected as a 2021 Diana Award Recipient and Top 5 UK Black Student, 2020 Rising Star in Healthcare, and has been featured on BBC, ITV and Channel 5 News.