Speaker Details

Ganesh Sathyamoorthy

Deputy Director & Research Consultant, Ethnicity & Health Unit & Healthcare Central London

Ganesh Sathyamoorthy is an influential health and research leader with over twenty years’ experience driving large scale innovation, community engagement, and system transformation across the NHS, academia, government, and the voluntary sector. Nationally recognised for championing equity, diversity and inclusion in health research, he has led programmes that have strengthened public trust, increased participation from underrepresented communities, and delivered measurable improvements in health outcomes.
Ganesh is the architect of several nationally recognised initiatives, including the Ethnicity & Health Unit (EHU). His work within the EHU includes leading the Northwest London (NWL) Integrated Care System (ICS) Research Engagement Network (REN). This NHS England programme aims to increase diversity in research. The NWL ICS REN programme engaged more than 3,100 community members from diverse NWL communities through 38 Research Roadshows, conducting 1,200 health checks, trained 40 local Community Research Champions, with over 300 participants signing up directly to research trials. The ICS REN programme has helped shape national approaches to inclusive research design.

A respected policy influencer, Ganesh has advised senior civil servants, contributed to national strategy through the NIHR’s Growth for Health report, and worked as a Trustee of the Sickle Cell Society, supporting the All Party Parliamentary Group inquiry No One’s Listening, which led to new investment and service improvements for people with Sickle Cell Disease. His research and thought leadership have been published in The Lancet, BMJ, Archives of Disease in Childhood, and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Ganesh was the Assistant Director for Partnership & Business Development at the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London and its predecessor programme, Collaboration for Applied Health Research Collaboration (CLAHRC) Northwest London, for 16 years. Ganesh now works as a Deputy Director for Imperial College London’s Ethnicity & Health Unit and as a Research Consultant for Central London Healthcare (CLH) (a research-active GP Federation located in Westminster).