Asian Miscarriage Hub
A safe space created for women in the South Asian Community and women around the world who go through miscarriage and infertility alone.
Our Health Collective members
We are a diverse group of grassroots organisations and healthcare professionals who are dedicated to addressing health disparities for women from marginalised communities. We work together to ensure every woman receives equitable healthcare and our voices are heard in shaping health policies.
Meet our members
Our members are located across the UK. Click on the map to find out more about our members or see a full list below.
Members
Asian Star Radio
The UK's number one Brit-Asian Radio Station.
Asian Women Mean Business
Inspiring South Asian Women To Dream Bigger.
Association of South Asian Midwives (ASAM)
A platform for the South Asian Midwifery Workforce and birthing community, with the aim of providing equitable maternity care to the South Asian community
B3 - Bumps, Birth and Belonging
B3-Bumps Birth and Belonging CIC is the specialist organisation that supports Afro- Caribbean and minoritised parents with all things related to pregnancy, birth and parenting.
Binti Periods
Believe that every girl deserves menstrual dignity, meaning access to education about menstruation, access to pads, and freedom from stigmas and taboos surrounding menstruation.
Black Menopause and Beyond
Podcasts and social media that amplify the topic of menopause and health issues affecting black women.
Black Nurses & Midwives UK
Black Nurses & Midwives UK is non-profit organisation that champions black students, nurses and midwives. Our key aims are networking, inspiring, empowering and connecting black professionals, and educating and raising awareness on health conditions that may disproportionately affect black and people of colour. We lobby change by raising awareness on health inequities through education, blogs, journals, speaking engagements and many more.
Black Women in Menopause
Black Women in Menopause provides a safe and supportive space for Black women to share their experiences, exchange information, seek advice, and advocate for better healthcare and workplace support related to menopause and beyond.
British Sikh Nurses
Aims to bridge the gap between the NHS and the South Asian Community in promoting holistic health and well-being as a faith-based nursing-inclusive organisation.
Community United
We work with the diverse communities in Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham to promote and working together to enhance wellness. We increase awareness about the services available to women and have conversations about navigating the services to ensure access is equal for all. We are at present looking out for a community hub to make it a safe haven for all women to talk about the challenges of being women.
Cysters
A collective of individuals changing the narrative around Reproductive and Mental Wellbeing, by ensuring our voices are represented in healthcare fairly. Cysters are striving for equal access to healthcare for marginalized communities, through education, awareness leading to empowerment.
Feel Good With Lavina
Lavina Mehta MBE is the founder of Feel Good With Lavina, Patron of Menopause Mandate, and Author. Her mission is to help all ages Feel Good physically, mentally and reduce risks of common chronic diseases through her concept of “Exercise Snacking” & free chair workouts. She regularly runs Workplace wellness workshops, menopause talks, keynotes and features in press and podcasts.
Five x More
A grassroots organisation committed to changing and highlighting Black maternal health outcomes in the UK.
Inherent Birth
Inherent Birth provides Muslim women a safe space to flourish through their pregnancy and motherhood journey with culturally safe information, services and resources.
Iranian & Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation
IKWRO - Women’s Rights Organisation is a UK based non profit set up to empower, support and advocate for women and girls from the Middle East, North African, and Afghan communities at risk and experiencing “honour” based abuse.
Menopause Alliance
Menopause Alliance actively engages in communities that traditionally do not discuss menopause to start conversations around menopause and older women's health. They also conduct monthly peer support group meetings
M for Menopause
Madhu, founder of M for Menopause, not only empowers underrepresented voices in women's health, but aims to ensure every individual has accessible and beneficial support at work and home during menopause.
Mamas House
Mamas House is on a mission to transform the motherhood experience from surviving to thriving. We do this by offering 'outside the box' antenatal, postnatal and breastfeeding courses, workshops and events. Our sessions are culturally relevant as we centre each individual, as well as trauma informed. We pride ourselves in being able to offer fully funded or subsidised offerings, to keep our offerings as accesssible as possible.
Meera Bhogal
Menopause educator and activist, public speaker, personal trainer, founder of the Don’t Pause for Menopause programme - a holistic multidisciplinary approach to educating women about menopause and how to navigate it. Founder of Don’t Pause for Menopause Symposium, Founder of Meera’s Menopause podcast and author of Don’t pause for menopause a guide to living optimally during menopause.
Michelle Griffith Robinson
Olympian, life coach and women's health trainer. Advocates for menopause and is a patron of Menopause Mandate.
Menopause Whilst Black
Karen Arthur is founder of Menopause whilst Black the podcast. Committed to sharing the stories of Black people in any stage of menopause, primarily based in the UK.
The Motivational Mum's Club
Provides free mental health support to mothers and birthing people, conducted by fully qualified psychologists. Along with a peer support group dedicated to support Black Mothers/birthing people with their mental health to make services more equitable and to break cultural barriers, alongside the Healthcare sector.
S.A.S Rights
A grassroots-based women-led organisation established in 1995. Dedicated to addressing social injustices and empowering marginalised communities.
Safeena Muslim Cancer Support Network
Safeena is the first Muslim cancer support network within the UK supporting Muslims (and anyone of any other faith or no faith) impacted by cancer either themselves or through a loved one. We provide online befriending support and education and awareness through our community champions. We are a national charity.
Sakoon Through Cancer
Support, workshops and educational programmes for breast cancer survivors of South Asian backgrounds.
Sehhat
A mental health and suicide prevention organisation, Sehhat's mission is to shape the mindset of punjabi and south asian communities surrounding mental health and suicide through advocacy, education, representation and research.
South Asian Supernovas
Created to improve outcomes in breast cancer in the South Asian community. Our organisation tackles inequalities faced in cancer care in South Asians by considering co-morbidities, culture and cultural conditioning and colonisation of medicine to educate healthcare, medical and pharmaceutical companies and to support this underserved population through community offerings.
The Adeno Gang
Supports, advocates and educates those with adenomyosis and other menstrual health conditions, to learn, educate and share knowledge on menstrual health and womb wellness.
The Essential Baby Company
Reducing race-based health inequality in maternity service through inclusive tools, resources and equity-driven training for healthcare professionals.
The Guidance Suite
For women wanting a safe & accessible space (online & in person) to access information & guidance on Fibroids & other womb issues.
The Uplift Magazine
A quarterly women's magazine for the Jewish Community. Written by women, for women, this magazine aims to provide respectful and supportive advice on all of life's challenges.
Thrive365
Through lived experience of cancer and as a trained Resilience coach, I facilitate courageous, compassionate conversations that provide clarity and realignment, empowering women to create a life in which they thrive.
Vibrant Midlife Wellness Practice CIC
Provides menopause information, awareness sessions, workshops also holistic, culturally sensitive and evidence-based coaching to black & other women to help them create personalised menopause care plans so they thrive in life and work. They have extended their work also to incarcerated women.
Womb Bae
A women's health platform that focuses on providing informational support on important topics such as Fibroids, Endometriosis, PCOS, PMS and much more. With the goal being to help women understand their womb and unlock better diet and fitness potentials.
You and Menopause
You and Menopause works towards destigmatising Black menopause experiences and shining the spotlight on diversity in menopause and championing for equity and inclusion.
Using creativity and arts to encourage open and honest intergenerational discussions and creating safe healthy spaces where lived experiences, knowledge, resources and information is shared.
Do you want to join us?
If you are a grassroots organisation representing women’s voices from marginalised communities, we would love you to join the Health Collective.
We want to ensure that collectively our members’ voices influence government policy through the Women’s Health Strategy, which aims to make sure the health and care system works for everyone. Together we will create collaborative solutions to overcome our many common challenges.
Members - medical professionals
Dr Ola Abdellatif
GP in Cambridge and originally from Egypt. She started delivering women's health related talks in her local mosque and hopes to continue to do so to support this cohort of women in our community.
Angela Bence
Natalie Brown
Miss Anushka Chaudhry
Consultant Oncoplastic Cosmetic Breast Surgeon. Health Educator.
Clare Clifford-Turner
Kings College London
Archana Dixit
Lead for Cultural Diversity & Antenatal Services | RCOG College Tutor
Bushra Effendi
Working with local councillors on tackling health disparities, especially for women in the South Asian, Black, and Traveller communities.
Thorrun Govind
Thorrun is a community pharmacist with a strong media presence.
Dr Sambo Hashiat
Alice-Amanda Hinton
Co-Chair LGBTQ+ Network; Co-Chair Lambeth Links LGBTQ+ Equalities Sub-Group; Pride in Practice Sessional Trainer
Reem Jafaar
Fareeha Jay
Specialise in South Asian diets.
Dr Sylvia Kama-Kieghe
Addressing health inequalities via information and education for women in underserved communities using a website and information platform, AskAwayHealth.
Dr Becky Mawson
A GP in Sheffield and a researcher specialising in sexual and reproductive health. Her PhD looks at barriers to access to SRH in general practice. Current projects, which she is supervising, are around access and experience of contraception by women from ethnic minority groups.
Dr Hadjer Nacer
Registrar at UCL, co-chair of Muslim Health Network; Getting women to make bread to learn about breast cancer signs.
Dr Odi Nwodo
Dr Anisha Patel
General practitioner with a specialist interest in women’s health and a bowel cancer survivor since 2018
Dr Aziza Sesay
NHS GP, GP educator, Honorary Senior Clinical lecturer, host, speaker and health content creator.