Raquel joined KCL in 2018 as an Academic Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry.

Her research interests include Health Inequalities, Women´s Health, Perinatal Mental Health, multi-morbidity and medical psychotherapy.

Raquel studied medicine at the University of Oxford following a BSc in Neuroscience at UCL. After finishing her foundation years on the Academic Foundation Programme in Public Health in North East London, she worked in Australia, Mozambique and Ethiopia. She started her core training in psychiatry in North Central London before moving to South London and Maudsley NHS Trust to complete the reminder of her core psychiatry training and take up a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship, during which time she also obtained membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Following this, Raquel was awarded a NIHR Clinical Research Preparatory Fellowship to explore racial and ethnic inequalities in multi-morbidity in women of reproductive age. She is currently a higher speciality trainee in medical psychotherapy and general adult psychiatry at South West London & St George´s Mental Health NHS trust and a clinical researcher at KCL.