About Us

WHAM: Wellbeing & Health Action Movement

A community for change

Who we are

WHAM is a grassroots collective of clinicians fighting health inequalities. We work to empower people to understand and tackle the causes of poor health at their roots—through education, creativity, and community.

We were founded in 2021 by a group of paediatric doctors who saw the devastating impact of COVID 19—and the deeper inequalities it exposed. Our friendly team has expanded a little since then, but remains small and completely volunteer lead. (Meet us below!)

We’re here to turn good intentions into action: giving and sharing knowledge and tools 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 Vision

A movement to inform, empower, and unite clinicians to fight health inequalities.

Inform ⇨ educate on what makes people and society healthy or sick (the social determinants of health).
Empower ⇨ give people the tools, knowledge and confidence to take action
Unite ⇨ provide community and organise resources

We aim to be a hub to connect you to real resources and actions in your community.

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.

Collaborators

Mary Salama

ColLaborators

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