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Dr Hannah Nazri is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Warwick. She obtained her medical degree at the University of Bristol, a BSc Medical Physics & Bioengineering at the University College London (1-year intercalated degree) and an MSc Clinical Embryology and DPhil at the University of Oxford. Her passion lies in delivering personalised healthcare, advancing endometriosis research, and advocating for gender equality. As the Malaysian Doctors for Women & Children director, Asia Network to End FGM/C (female genital mutilation/cutting) Advisory Board member and the and the International Planned Parenthood Federation Elimination of FGM/C Centre of Excellence Experts’ committee member, she is committed to eradicating FGM/C and improving gynaecological health access globally and has collaborated with international and local non-profits to that end. Additionally, Hannah is the President of the Boston Congress of Public Health Board, a non-profit aiming to foster future public health leaders dedicated to social justice. She was a panellist at the 68th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) parallel event on FGM/C and has been a UN Women UK CSW delegate. Recently, Hannah has been appointed to become a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists Global Health Trainees’ Committee. She is also an Early Career Ambassador for the World Endometriosis Society and the International Relations Subcommittee Member for the British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy.

Previously, Hannah was awarded the Royal Commonwealth Society Associate Fellowship in recognition of her work with the youth education charity, The Kalsom Movement (2022 Commonwealth Education Awards finalist, 2020 UN Youth Sustainable Development Solutions Network Report top 50 charities). She was a top-5 finalist of the 2020 Women of the Future Award UK and was invited to the 2022 Commonwealth Diaspora Reception and the 2024 His Majesty the King’s Garden Party – both at Buckingham Palace, and the 2024 Pre-CHOGM Reception at St James’s Palace.

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Speaking engagements

• Apr 2025: Speaker on “Leadership and Academic Pathways in Obstetrics & Gynaecology” for the Bristol Medical Women’s Federation.
• Nov 2024: Guest lecturer for Business Discourse Course at Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics, California State University, USA.
• Oct 2024: Speaker on the “Comparative Analysis of Abortion Rights in Malaysia and the UK” for “Reproductive Rights Lecture Series” organised by the Boston Congress of Public Health.
• Oct 2024: Speaker on the “Gaps in Maternity Protection and Care Work in Malaysia from a Healthcare Professional’s Perspective” to civil society organisations across Southeast Asia, organised by Monitoring Sustainability of Globalisation, Martabat Untuk Semua (Dignity for All) and the Asia Monitor Resource Centre.
• Aug 2024: Panellist for the British Malaysian Society’s panel discussion on how the lives of women in China and Malaysia have changed since 1995, following film screening of “Half of the Sky” (directed by Dr Shuyun Sun, for the 1995 UN’s 4th World Conference on Women, in Beijing, China).
• Jul 2024: Alumni speaker for graduating students of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.
• Apr 2024: Lead discussant at for the 2024 Commonwealth Regional Asia/ Caribbean Conversation health justice breakout session (findings from this meeting fed into the 2024 UN Small Island Developing States International Conference, Antigua & Barbuda and the 2024 Commonwealth People’s Forum, Samoa).
• May 2021: Moderator for the Royal Commonwealth Society European Equality Working Group webinar on “The Impact of Ethnic Minorities in Wales and RCS Wales’ Efforts Towards Zero Racism.”
• Jul 2020: Panellist for the Ditchley Foundation Virtual Panel – A Fourth of July Celebration: Three Great Americans and Their Lessons for our Times.
• Oct 2019: Keynote speaker on the topic of “Youth Setting and Leading the Agenda for Change in Countering Extremism within the Context of Women’s Rights” for a civil society organisation that advocates for women’s rights within the Islamic framework, at the 2019 Sisters in Islam Regional Youth Caucus Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Keynote touched on extremism against women including FGM and the gender pain gap, especially in women with endometriosis. Article inspired by speech here.

Endometriosis

• Oct 2024: Speaker for St John’s College, University of Oxford’s Women’s Network on the “Gender Pain Gap and Endometriosis”.
• May 2024: First author poster presentation on “Small Extracellular Vesicle Proteins as Potential Biomarker of Endometriosis” at the International Small Extracellular Vesicles 2024 (ISEV2024), Melbourne, Australia.
• May 2023: Speaker for the 2023 Federation of International Women’s Association in London Women’s Health Conference on navigating a gender-biased healthcare system.
• Jul 2022: First author oral presentation on “Small Extracellular Vesicle Proteins as Potential Biomarker of Endometriosis” at the 38th European Society for Human Reproduction & Embryology (ESHRE) Annual Meeting, Milan, Italy. Oral presentation was pre-selected for the Basic Science Award.
• Mar 2021: First author oral presentation on “Peritoneal Fluid Small Extracellular Vesicles as Biomarker of Endometriosis” at the 14th World Congress on Endometriosis (Virtual).
• Mar 2019: First author poster presentation on “Exosome Proteins from Peritoneal Fluid Samples of Women as Potential Biomarkers of Endometriosis” at 66th Society for Reproductive Investigation Annual Scientific Meeting, Paris, France.
• Jul 2018: First author oral presentation on “Exosomes as a Biomarker for Endometriosis” at 34th European Society of Human Reproduction & Embryology (ESHRE) Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain.

End FGM/C

• Apr 2025: Guest lecturer for the Médecins Sans Frontières’ Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine course on FGM/C.
• Mar 2025: Led a workshop on FGM/C for the Students for Global Health – Warwick Branch, Warwick Medical School.
• Feb 2025: Guest lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London – MSc Module: “How to Change Things”.
• Feb 2025: Speaker on “An Introduction to FGM/C”, organised by the Warwick Medical School Obstetrics & Gynaecology Society.
• Dec 2024: Panellist for the “FGM/C in India Webinar”, organised by the Society of Indian Medical Students of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.
• Oct 2024: Speaker at the 2024 UNFPA-UNICEF Regional Partners Roundtable to End FGM/C in Southeast Asia.
• Mar 2024: Panellist – Presented a talk on the medicalisation of FGM in Asia at the 2024 United Nations’ 68th CSW Parallel Event organised by the Asia Network to End FGM/C: “FGM/C in Asia: Evidence and Funding“.
• Mar 2024: Speaker on the medicalisation of FGM at the 2024 International Planned Parenthood Federation (Arab World Regional Office) and Mauritanian Association for the Promotion of Family International Workshop on “Exchanging Experiences and Learning on Quality of Care on FGM Survivors”. 
• Jul 2023: Lead discussant for the “Emerging Trends: Medicalization, Cross-border FGM/C, FGM/C Economics” at the FGM/C pre-conference at the 2023 Women Deliver, Kigali, Rwanda.

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