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Biography

Professor Geeta Nargund, Baroness Nargund FRCOG, is a British physician, professor and women's health campaigner known for pioneering natural and mild IVF and Advanced Ultrasound Technology in Reproductive Medicine. She founded Create Health Foundation in 2000 — renamed Health Equality Foundation in September 2025 — a charity aimed at promoting research, raising public awareness, and tackling gender, socio-economic and BAME health inequalities through evidence-based research and policy recommendations. She served for over three decades at St George's Hospital NHS Trust as Senior Consultant Gynaecologist and Lead Consultant for Reproductive Medicine, retiring from that role in December 2025, and founded CREATE Fertility and abc IVF. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and is Co-Founder and President of the International Society for Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction (ISMAAR), advocating for safer, less drug-intensive and more accessible fertility treatment. In January 2026 she was created Baroness Nargund of Wimbledon and Tooting as a Labour life peer, appointed by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer; she is also an Authority Member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and Honorary Professor of Women's Health at City St George's, University of London.

References

1. 1.Geeta Nargund – Women's Health Pioneer (personal site) — Current positions including Life Peer, Honorary Professor at City St George's, HFEA Authority Member, and Founder/Trustee of Health Equality Foundation
2. 2.Team – Health Equality Foundation — Role as founder of Create Health Foundation; career at St George's NHS Trust; publishing record in peer-reviewed journals
3. 3.City St George's: Honorary Professor Geeta Nargund appointed to the House of Lords — Life peerage appointment by PM Starmer in December 2025; title as Baroness Nargund of Wimbledon and Tooting
4. 4.Professor Geeta Nargund | Progress Educational Trust (PET) — Role as Lead Consultant at St George's; Medical Director of CREATE Fertility and abc IVF; co-founder of ISMAAR; research interests
5. 5.Health Equality Foundation – Charity Commission Contact Information

Expertise

Cited on

• Hospital discharge / bed-blocking

Stated areas of expertise

• Natural and mild IVF
• Women's reproductive health policy
• Fertility education and access
• Gender health gap
• Advanced ultrasound in reproductive medicine
• Global and affordable fertility care

Notable achievements

• Co-authored the paper on the Simplified Culture System, which won the Professor Robert Edwards Prize for Best Scientific Paper in Reproductive BioMedicine Online in 2014. Source ↗
• Founded CREATE Fertility in 2000, building it into a chain of UK clinics specialising in natural and mild IVF, and co-founded abc IVF in 2017 to bring affordable fertility treatments to the UK. Source ↗
• Created Baroness Nargund, of Wimbledon and Tooting, as a Labour life peer on 21 January 2026, appointed by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Source ↗
• Pioneered the UK's first fertility education initiative in secondary schools. Source ↗
• Health Equality Foundation (formerly Create Health Foundation) published 'Women's Health in the UK: Time for Change' report in May 2025, based on a nationwide survey of approximately 5,000 adults. Source ↗

What they’ve said

• “Prof Geeta Nargund says employers need to take action on health inequality as research shows more than 32% of women aren't receiving enough help to stay in work”

  Founder, Create Health Foundation · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · It pays to support women’s health in the workplace | Letter ↗

Source references

1. It pays to support women’s health in the workplace | Lettertheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

Contact & links

• Websitehttps://www.geeta-nargund.compublished here ↗
• Staff pagehttps://www.createhealthfoundation.org/professor-geeta-nargund
• Staff pagehttps://members.parliament.uk/member/5439/career

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