Hareen De Silva

Hareen is a Fellow of the RCGP. In his GP career he was the national wellbeing lead for First5 GPs, SYNT Faculty First5 representative and became the youngest faculty Chair in the history of the RCGP. He moved onto becoming an expedition medic alongside clinical GP work, travelling to Dominica, Costa Rica, Gough Island with the Royal Society for Protection of Birds and Midway Atoll with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. In between expeditions, Hareen has deployed on humanitarian assistance missions after gaining his Master’s in Public Health to Greece, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and Gaza with CADUS e.V. and UK-MED. He has an interest in health inequalities and is a trustee for the UK medical education charity Fairhealth. He has received a British Empire Medal in 2020 for his GP work and then the new Humanitarian Medal in 2025 for his work with UK-MED in Gaza.