MsSarindi Aryasinghe

Sarindi Aryasinghe is a part-time PhD candidate within the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, where her research focuses on improving maternity care for Black families living in Northwest London. Using participatory research and co-production approaches, she is developing a community advocate intervention aimed at addressing ethnic inequities in maternity care. Her work involves close collaboration with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust maternity services, the Northwest London Integrated Care Board, Hammersmith & Fulham Council, and a range of voluntary and community sector organisations. Her PhD is supported by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and Imperial’s Patient Experience Research Centre (PERC), and is supervised by Professor Helen Ward, Dr Sabrina Das, and Dr Phoebe Averill. For her PhD research, she has received the 2024 NIHR Imperial BRC Public Involvement Award and 2025 Imperial President's Student Award for Excellence in Societal Engagement.

Sarindi is currently the Head of Implementation at the NHS Race and Health Observatory, where she leads the implementation of evidence-based strategies to address racial and ethnic inequalities in the NHS. Previously, she was a Programme Manager and PPIE lead within the Imperial BRC Digital Health theme, where she led an award-winning national programme to scale and implement a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm across 10 NHS Trusts in England, enabling frontline teams to use patient feedback to drive quality improvement. She also led NLP analysis of recruitment data to evaluate an inclusive recruitment programme at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, aimed at addressing inequities in ethnic diversity in senior roles.

Prior to joining Imperial, Sarindi held various roles in the global sexual and reproductive health sector. She led the development and implementation of MSI Reproductive Choices’ global client-centred care strategy in Asia and Africa. She also oversaw the strategy, implementation, and embedding of the organisation’s bespoke electronic health record system, supporting frontline, research, and operational teams to use routine healthcare data for decision-making and research. Sarindi has previously worked as a research consultant for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, where she contributed to the evidence base on sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian crises, as well as family planning and postabortion care in East Africa.