Sally King

Dr Sally King is a Visiting Fellow in Menstrual Physiology at King’s College London’s School of Life Course & Population Sciences, affiliated with the Department of Women & Children's Health. She holds a PhD in Medical Sociology from King’s College London and an MRes from the University of Manchester. Her work focuses on dismantling gender and racial myths in women’s health through interdisciplinary research combining biomedical data and critical sociological analysis.

Key research areas include menstrual physiology education, workplace policies related to menstruation, period poverty, and the intersection of health with gender/racial inequities. She founded Menstrual Matters, the first evidence-based menstrual health resource platform. Her recent book Menstrual Myth Busting challenges historical stereotypes about menstrual health.

King has contributed to policy debates on menstrual leave, reproductive rights, and gender equality through publications in Gender and Development, Occupational Health at Work, and Oxford University Press. She collaborates with King’s research groups including the Reproduction Research Group and Culture, Medicine & Power.

Her ESRC postdoctoral fellowship under Dr Kim Jonas advanced experimental biology insights into menstrual physiology. Mentors like Dr Scott Vrecko and Dr Kim Jonas have been pivotal to her career, which bridges sociology and experimental science.