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Bhanu is a consultant in paediatric infectious diseases, with interests in tuberculosis and in refugee child health at Northwick Park Hospital. Her educational leadership roles include postgraduate system dean for south west London and associate medical director for education within her NHS Trust. Her undergraduate training was at Nottingham, followed by SHO training in Lewisham and Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital. Following completion of membership exams, she undertook the diploma of tropical medicine and then worked in the Gambia for a year with Voluntary Service Overseas. Registrar training was in North London, with infectious diseases specialty training at St Mary's and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. She has previously served as global officer for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and is now a Trustee and the Assistant Registrar. She has worked in multiple low-income settings, including South Africa, Nepal, Myanmar and Uganda, leading on UNICEF and WHO funded initiatives to reduce child mortality through improved quality of care at district level hospitals. The Myanmar work was awarded the South East Asia Education Team Award. She has written over 20 peer reviewed papers and 5 book chapters on infections, global and migrant child health, one of which won First Prize in BMJ medical Book of the Year in 2022. Bhanu is married to a neuro-oncologist who works at Imperial and they have an 18 year old son who is in MTS Upper 6th and is an aspiring classicist and a 19 year old son who is a second year medical student. She enjoys swimming, tennis and theatre and has studied part time for a degree in English Literature with the Open University.

Dr Bhanu Williams