MedTech Society: Diversity and Inclusion Executive

Hi! I’m  Immanuella, and I’m standing for the Med Tech Diversity and Inclusion Officer role because creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed, valued and included is something I genuinely care about.

I’m naturally an extrovert and love interacting with people from different backgrounds and experiences. My understanding of diversity has been shaped by my own experiences growing up. After moving from London to Nigeria at a young age, I was surrounded by people with similar cultural experiences to mine. However, when I moved back to Kent, I found myself being the only person of colour in my school. Experiencing such different environments made me understand how important representation, belonging, and inclusion truly are.

As the former Public Health Lead of my county’s Youth Council, I developed strong communication and leadership skills through working with a wide range of people from different backgrounds and age groups. That role taught me how to start conversations, find common ground, and ensure people felt listened to and respected.

When I joined Med Tech this year, I remember how welcoming and supportive the environment felt, and that is exactly what I want to help continue as Diversity and Inclusion Officer.

I would love the opportunity to help create an even more inclusive, supportive and connected community within Med Tech.
 

I am standing for MedTech Diversity & Inclusion Executive because I care about making the society more accessible, transparent, and welcoming. As someone from a marginalized background with a non-visible disability, I understand that barriers to participation are not always obvious. Members may be excluded not because they are uninterested, but because information is unclear, opportunities are not shared widely, or events do not consider different needs. My summer camp counsellor experience with diverse groups of children taught me how adapting communication, activities, and support can make people feel more included, making me well-suited for the role. If elected, I would focus on practical improvements, including but not limited to:

• Making hackathon applications clearer and fairer, with prior email instructions, stable deadlines, and transparent selection criteria. 
• Promoting selected external opportunities, such as the Copenhagen MedTech Conference, more widely and clearly so selected participants come from broader backgrounds, not mainly existing committee circles.

• Improving event and conference accessibility through clearer schedules, visible posters, WhatsApp/email room-change updates, and better directions, especially for major events like MedTech For All.

  I am standing because I want Diversity & Inclusion to really show in how the society communicates, designs and runs events. I hope to work closely with members and the committee to make MedTech truly accessible to all.

Hi guys! I'm Leqi and I'm standing as your next Diversity and Inclusion Officer! 

As someone who hardly knew what MedTech society was at the start of the year, I’m so grateful that the events and people that make up this society were as inclusive, welcoming and informative as I found it to be through all the events I attended during the year.

My desire to continue on expanding on the strong foundations that the previous committee has built and to continue making both old and new members feel that MedTech is a safe space where they can try, fail and succeed without judgement has led me to stand for Diversity and Inclusion Officer for this coming year. In this role, I will work diligently with the other members of the committee to ensure that our flagship 'MedTech for all' Conference is marketed and delivered to the highest quality. I also hope to bring in speakers who reflect our diverse community and to pitch the event at a level that is friendly for people at all different stages of building their careers, whether that be a fresher at one of their first events or an experienced member. As First-Year Rep for Biomed this year among other roles I’ve had, I know what it means to be regularly planning and working towards something whether that collecting peer feedback for the next SPC meeting or communicating feedback back to the cohort. 

Overall, I believe that I have the dedication and organisational skills to deliver in this role and I would really appreciate your vote! 

Hi everyone! My name is Laura, a current undergraduate biomedical engineering student, and I'm standing to become your diversity and inclusion executive. 

To me, the core of this role is simple: making sure MedTech UCL feels like a society for everyone. Whether you're a medic, an engineer, a computer scientist, or just someone curious about the future of healthcare, you should feel at home here.

Here's what I'd love to work towards:

• Getting involved in events like the MedTech for All conference: which I think captures exactly the right spirit and help make sure they're as open and engaging as possible for the whole UCL community, whatever their background or experience level, and to be as enjoyable for everyone of different backgrounds and capabilities.
•  Reaching out across UCL: connecting with students from all faculties and courses so that our society reflects the full range of people who have something to contribute to medtech. The more diverse our membership, the richer our conversations and ideas.
• Creating spaces where everyone feels welcome: no jargon, no gatekeeping, just a shared enthusiasm for what technology can do for healthcare. I want new members to walk into their first event and immediately feel like they belong.

Medtech is a field that affects everyone, so the people shaping it should come from everywhere. I'd love to help make that a reality within our society.

Diversity and inclusion only matter when they create real change: who feels welcome, gets opportunities and whose voices are heard. I want to help make MedTech Soc more collaborative, accessible, and genuinely welcoming to students from all backgrounds.

I would:

• Build speaker panels reflecting the breadth of medicine across gender, ethnicity and specialty with focus on:
  • women’s health
    • global health
    • innovation for underserved communities
• Keep events consistent all year
• Make MedTech more approachable to newcomers through beginner-friendly workshops in areas like medical imaging and device innovation. 
  • Curiosity - not prior experience - should be enough to get involved.
• Introduce more interactive and inclusive event formats like:
  • anonymous question submissions
    • small-group discussions 
    • facilitated networking 

What I Bring:

• I founded my school’s medicine society from scratch:
  • organising speakers
    • mentoring students
    • supporting applicants without existing connections to medicine
• At Imperial College’s Science in Medicine Competition, I led a team to runners-up designing an insulin delivery system for refugees in conflict zones, showing me how innovation and inclusivity can tackle real health problems.
• Growing up between Sri Lanka and England, and studying in an international school, gave me experience working with people from diverse perspectives.

MedTech Soc has huge potential, and I’d love the opportunity to help build something ambitious, welcoming and representative of future healthcare

Hi everyone! I’m Jillian, a second-year Biochemistry student, and I'm excited to be running for the role of Diversity and Inclusion Executive for the upcoming year.

My own introduction to MedTech was through the society's events, which I found to be enjoyable and welcoming, and I would love to give others that same experience. As D&I Executive, I hope to make the MedTech For All Conference just as welcoming, accessible and inspiring for attendees, regardless of their background or prior experience. Before coming to UCL, I organised multiple large-scale events as part of several student-led projects. I am confident that my experience in managing internal communications, coordinating with external stakeholders, and leading end-to-end event execution will be invaluable in the planning of the MedTech For All Conference.

If elected as D&I Executive, I'll focus on working closely with the Chair and fellow Executives to plan and deliver a seamless conference experience. I hope to reach out to experts and professionals in the field from underrepresented demographics, or who have entered the industry through non-conventional pathways. My goal is for every attendee to leave the conference feeling like they belong in this field!

Thank you for reading, and I’d really appreciate your vote!