Johann Malawana

Johann Malawana is a British obstetrician who was the Chair of the Junior Doctors Committee of the British Medical Association (BMA) from September 2015 to July 2016. He is a registrar in obstetrics.

Malawana grew up in Gants Hill, London and was educated at Ilford County High School. He studied at Barts and The London, graduating with a medical degree in 2005.

Malawana was president of Barts and The London Students' Association 2002–03.

In 2003–05 he was University of London Union Medical Students Officer and founded the London Medical Student newspaper as part of the campaign around Modernising Medical Careers.

In 2004 he was elected the Deputy Chair for Education of Medical Students Committee of the BMA.

He was an appointed member of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) 2008–10 and the General Medical Council (GMC) 2009–12.

From 2007 to 2010, after the introduction of Modernising Medical Careers and the MTAS debacle, he was the Chair of the Education and Training team for Junior Doctors Committee of the BMA. As part of the subsequent negotiations he is credited with devising the first version of the Interdeanery Transfer system.

At the end of September 2015 he was elected chair of the Junior doctor's Committee of the BMA. In November 2015, he was named by the Health Service Journal to be the 78th most influential person in the English NHS.

Malawana resigned from the position of chair of the JDC on 5 July 2016.

He is married to a GP, with whom he has a son. He previously ran a photography business in his spare time.