
ALT White tile with picture and bio of Swathy Santhakumar who will be a speaker at our event, The Road to Abortion Equity. Her bio reads Swathy Santhakumar is first year medical student in Australia. She completed her honours research in 2020 looking at the coverage of abortion care content in medical schools across Australia. Having worked in the healthcare space for over 4 years in different capacities, she wants to encourage more young people to engage in improving healthcare access and delivery.

ALT White tile with picture and bio of Dr Syahir Soffi which reads Syahir (they/them) is a sexual and reproductive health doctor who lives and works in Larrakia country (Darwin). They are a passionate advocate for trauma-informed abortion healthcare, and is a proceduralist providing first and second trimester surgical abortions and feticide procedures for second and third trimester in—hospital medical abortions. They are the Clinical Lead of the Pregnancy Options Service at Royal Darwin and Palmerston Hospitals, the referral centre for complex abortion healthcare in the Top End, and Medical Director of Family Planning Welfare Association Northern Territory, the main provider of early medication abortion in Greater Darwin. They chair the Northern Territory Termination of Pregnancy Working Group, a multi-agency advisory group that advises the NT Department of Health on abortion-related policies and service improvement initiatives; and is a member of the Royal Australian and NZ.













