Lydia is a final year medical student at the University of Cambridge. She has been volunteering with CamRARE since the start of the pandemic in 2020, where she helped design a Hospital Passport for rare disease patients at a time when families were unable to join patients in hospital and specialist medical teams were redeployed.
Lydia has a Masters in Genomic Medicine and is actively involved in genomics research.
She is co-host of the educational podcast Genomics Unravelled and last year she founded the Cambridge University Genomic Medicine Society.
Previous talks:
Lydia has presented her research as posters or platform presentations at several national and international conferences.
Previous advocacy work:
Lydia developed and lead The Cambridge Period Project, a student movement committed to alleviating period poverty and achieving menstrual equity within the university and wider community. Notably, she spearheaded a successful campaign that secured free menstrual product provision across the University of Cambridge.
