Dr Layan Allawi is a Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Clinical Fellow in NHS England’s National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme, focusing on developing national educational resources for patients, carers, healthcare professionals and the wider public.

She is a Haematology Registrar at the East of England Deanery and completed a PGCert in Clinical Leadership and Management (Darzi Fellowship) in Sickle Cell Disease at London North West Hospitals NHS Trust in 2023.