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From fertility to hormones to heart health to the things we rarely name: these are conversations South Asian communities are beginning to have. The more we share, the stronger this becomes.
Add your voiceHow this began
Three cousin sisters. Three different journeys.
Three cousin sisters in one family, each with a fertility journey of her own. They never got to talk about them together. This platform began there.
Lived Stories
Real people, real journeys
Kreena Dhiman
Breast cancer at 33 took her fertility. She built a family of four children across two surrogacy journeys, and spoke openly so no other South Asian woman would feel as alone as she once had.
Kreena's story
Seetal Savla
Six years, four IVF cycles, a donor egg, a miscarriage, and then a daughter conceived naturally. She writes and speaks about the fears South Asian families carry through fertility treatment, so no one has to carry them in silence.
Full story coming soon
Nim and Sonayna Chandran
Nim and Sonayna went through IVF as a couple, and they talk about it openly, from both sides. Nim is a trustee of the charity Fertility Action.
Full story coming soon
Asiya Dawood
Four miscarriages, then her daughter in 2020. Asiya broke her silence to start Asian Miscarriage Hub, so other South Asian families have somewhere to turn.
Full story coming soon
Neelam Heera-Shergill
Founder of Cysters. After recurrent miscarriages, Neelam spoke openly about the grief and now works for fairer women's and maternity care.
Full story coming soon
Podcast host and researcher · Lived experience
Krupa Suthar
Host of Real Stories. Real Life., a podcast of South Asian paths to parenthood.
Full story coming soon
Integrative counsellor and coach · Lived experience
Anita Guru
Bringing the emotional side of fertility into the open, the part that is usually kept private.
Full story coming soon
Lived-experience advocates · The Himmat Collective
Vik and Sarina Dosanjh
Three miscarriages, a failed IVF cycle, and a culture that calls it bad luck. They decided baby loss and infertility would not be things South Asian couples grieve in silence.
Vik and Sarina's storyClinical and Research Voices
The clinicians and researchers in our corner
GP · Occupational medicine and health inequalities
Dr Aaliya Goyal
Most doctors treat the patient in front of them. Dr Aaliya also treats the systems that decide whether people can keep working at all.
Aaliya's story
Dr Farah Ahmed
Bringing GP expertise in women's health and hormones to break the silence around South Asian women's health.
Full story coming soon
Dr Kurren Sandhu
Burnt out in training, rebuilt through lifestyle medicine, now helping others do the same.
Read his story
GP · Menopause and health inequalities
Dr Sana Javed
Bringing South Asian menopause out of the joint aches and fatigue it hides in, so women are recognised and treated properly.
Full story coming soon
Anaesthetist · NHS patient-safety campaigner
Dr Nadia Masood
In 2016 she was one of five junior doctors who took the government to the High Court over a contract they believed was unsafe. She has spent her career since making medicine safer, from intensive care to the systems behind it.
Nadia's story
GP · Skin of Colour dermatology
Dr Manisha Desai
Bringing GP care and skin of colour dermatology together so South Asian skin is seen, understood and treated properly.
Full story coming soon
GP · Men's health and fertility
Dr Anand Patel
Many South Asian men are raised to keep the body below the waist private, and that silence can quietly cost them their health. Dr Anand has built a whole career making the conversation feel ordinary.
Anand's storyCulture, Heritage and Community
The people holding the space
Harbinder Kaur
Uncovering the history that explains today's South Asian health inequalities.
Read her story
The heritage strand
Heritage & Health
The history behind South Asian health today: migration, famine, partition, and what they left in our bodies. Explore the full heritage journey.
Explore Heritage & HealthAdd your voice
This is not about having the right words. It is about having a real experience.
Lived experience
You have navigated a health experience as a South Asian person, whether that's fertility, hormones, heart health, diabetes, mental health, or something else entirely. Your experience does not need to be tidy or resolved.
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