Advocacy & Health Inequalities
Toral is the co-founder of South Asian Supernovas a not-for profit organisation (in the process of becoming a charity) that alongside community, medical and oncology professionals, the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare, and media to raise awareness and remedy inequalities in the breast cancer care of South Asians in the UK.
Health inequalities in cancer
Toral is passionate about combatting the lack of diversity in healthcare and ensuring both doctors and patients from marginalised groups, particularly racially minoritized groups, are equally represented within the NHS and healthcare systems. Currently, these have poorer health outcomes, even when you consider socioeconomic factors, and are often diagnosed with cancer later and at later stages.
Education and understanding bias is important for creating change in cancer care, so supporting
health care professionals to look at their own behaviour and process. Toral has created several talks and workshops aimed at educating health care professionals to close the cancer gap in South Asians and ethnic minorities.
Charities
She is working with several charities and organisations to ensure that they are creating more inclusive health promotion campaigns with more diversity and inclusivity so that all communities know that cancer can affect them, and support them to provide services that are inclusive for all. She is also passionate about breast cancer and cancer patients being acknowledged and compensated for sharing their stories and the associated trauma.
