About Us

“The Social Incubator”

WHAM: Wellbeing & Health Action Movement

A social incubator. A professional community. A movement for health justice.

🤓Who We Are

WHAM (Wellbeing and Health Action Movement) is a grassroots collective of clinicians, a digital hub, and a social incubator for change in healthcare. We believe healthcare should be just, human, and bold. We work to empower people working in medicine to tackle inequality at its roots—through education, creativity, and community

We were founded in 2021 by paediatricians who saw the devastating impact of COVID—and the deeper inequalities it exposed.

We’re here to turn good intentions into action: giving ordinary clinicians the knowledge, tools, and community to take on health inequality from the inside out. Because we believe ordinary clinicians can be extraordinary agents of change—when they have the right support.

🚀Our Mission

We want to make justice part of the job description.

Our goal? To shift healthcare upstream. From reactive to proactive. From top-down to community-rooted. From band-aid fixes to bold system redesign.

We support clinicians to reconnect with purpose, take practical action, and challenge a status quo that leaves too many behind.

We can turn ideas into action all night.

This is a movement that grows by doing. Come join us.

Join the Movement

How can we turn the good intentions of ordinary clinicians into meaningful action on the social determinants and health inequality?

WHAM (Wellbeing and Health Action Movement) is an empowering-through-education organisation. Formed in 2021 by paediatricians responding to health inequality in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHAM began as a ‘social incubator’ and digital platform for the peer-to-peer sharing of the Knowledge, Tools and Community to inform, empower and unite clinicians who wish to address social determinants and health inequality in their clinical practice.

🌀How Change Happens (Our Theory of Change)

Most of us already feel it—something is wrong.

But doing something about it takes more than passion. It takes:

New ways of seeing our role as clinicians
New skills for making change in complex systems
A community that believes you can

WHAM offers that journey.

Through our Algorithms for Action and Rules for Radicals, we guide clinicians from “this feels wrong” to “here’s what I can do.”

We blend the rigour of quality improvement with the soul of social justice, helping you reclaim clinical tools for deeper, more equitable care.

🔧What We Are (And What We’re Not)

We’re not here to replicate Wikipedia or the third sector.
We won’t overwhelm you with stats or pretend we’ve invented activism.

Instead, we point you to the best evidence and partners already doing this work—and we focus on helping you, the clinician, find your entry point.

We don’t run top-down campaigns.
We don’t issue mandates.
We don’t wait for permission.

What we do offer is a space to learn, connect, experiment, and act.

🧠Why WHAM Works

Traditional medical training rarely equips us to talk about poverty, racism, housing, or climate—but these are the things making our patients sick.

Most QI projects aren’t designed to tackle injustice.

Most clinicians aren’t trained to see themselves as system changers

That’s where WHAM steps in—with a bigger vision of what healthcare can be.

We support a new kind of professional culture—one that’s curious, collaborative, and unapologetically committed to justice.

✊Meet the Team

We’re not a think tank. We’re a do tank.

A small, scrappy, informal collective of clinicians, learners, and rebels

We’re non-hierarchical and proudly imperfect. We learn as we go. We move fast. We’re not bound by bureaucracy—and we’re not afraid to get things wrong on the way to getting them right.

WHAM: Tiny but mighty.

Guddi Singh

Director

Guddi

Dr Guddi Singh is a doctor, broadcaster, and co-founder and director of the Wellbeing & Health Action Movement (WHAM).
As a neurodevelopmental and social paediatrician, Guddi is interested in the broader factors contributing to child health. She researches how we might radically reimagine health to address inequalities for her PhD at King’s College London.
Guddi’s policy experience at the World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Education England (HEE) and global clinical experience give her a critical perspective on health. She has published widely on medical professionalism, quality improvement, and health inequalities.
Passionate about social justice, Guddi worked for MedAct and now advocates through her board roles for the National Centre for Creative Health, and the Centre for Health and the Public Interest.
Guddi is a skilled communicator, appearing on BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Al-Jazeera and Sky News and as a keynote speaker.

Hannah Zhu

QI Lead

Hannah

Hannah is a community paediatric Consultant working in London. She is passionate about tackling health inequalities and supporting families physically, emotionally and spiritually at every possible opportunity in an integrated way. She values working with health, social care, education and third sector organisations. She previously volunteered for Tamar, a charity helping sex trafficking victims in London. She has lots of experience in quality improvement and education and uses this to empower colleagues to have the confidence to address child poverty at work. When not working, Hannah is mum to 2 very entertaining children, enjoys food a lot (both cooking and eating), and runs a mum and baby support group in her local church.

Helen Leveret

Operations Lead

Helen

Helen is a paediatric registrar working in Severn. She is interested in the health impacts of poverty and the role clinicians can play in addressing the social determinants of health when meeting families in clinic or the emergency department. She believes that health care professionals should be advocates for reducing health inequalities, using our voices to influence policies that impact on the social determinants of health and improve health outcomes for families across the UK. There is a lot of work showing the effectiveness of "social paediatrics" in the USA and Canada. Her vision is that we do the same in the UK and use the evidence base to support the call for health polices that work to reduce health inequalities.

Co-Founding Team

Emma Sunderland

Co-Founders

Emma

Emma is a Paediatric Consultant working in London. Her interests include adolescent medicine, mental health and integrated care. She is passionate about addressing health inequalities with a particular focus on children and young people who are in care. She is an active member of YPHSIG, PMHA, AYPH, 4in10 and sits on the London School of Paediatrics Trainees Committee, in the Innovation Subgroup. Emma sits on the management board for her local pupil referral unit and has volunteered with young refugees in Greece and Northern France. In her free time, Emma loves to cook, hike and travel.

Tami Benzaken

Co-Founders

Tami

Tami is a paediatric registrar working in London. She has an interest in public health, global child health and integrated care. She is passionate about improving the health and well-being for children through community based integrated working to optimise patients' and families' experiences. She is a member of the London School of Paediatrics Trainee Committee and of the RCPCH Climate Change Working Group. She has previously worked in Malawi and Guatemala and currently volunteers for Virtual Doctors, a charity using telemedicine to connect rural health centres in Zambia. In her spare time she enjoys both practicing and teaching yoga and is a keen potter.