Women, created by Women's Equality Network, to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918. She was awarded the prestigious fellowship of Learned Society of Wales in 2018. She has been an International Advisor for the Organisation of the Rare Diseases, India (2016) and also sits on the Advisory Board of Genoma India international forum, Philadelphia, USA and on the Medical Advisory Board as well as a trustee of Nerve Tumours, UK. Upadhyaya is a co-director of the project entitled: 70 years of struggle and achievement: Life Stories of Ethnic Minority Women in Wales 2019 (funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund). She organised First International Conference on RASopathies and Neurofibromatoses in Asia: Identification and Advances of New Therapeutics in Kochi, Kerala, India in 2017. She was elected to be a Council Member of the RCPath in 2014 and the Learning Society of Wales in 2020. Upadhyaya also served as a mentor on Dame Rosemary Butler's Women in Public Life Scheme (2014-2015). She is a trustee for Race Equality First, Race Council Cymru, the European NF Association and sits on the Advisory Committee of Cardiff University's BME+ Staff Network, NWAMI, Purple Plaques, and Monumental Welsh Women. Upadhyaya has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director (NED) on the Welsh Government Civil Service Board (2020). She was appointed as an Honorary Professor of Amrita School of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Kerala, India (2020) and an Honorary Executive Director of Chhaya Public School, India. Upadhyaya is also an advocate for women of ethnic minorities; she is the founder and Chair of Welsh Asian Women Achievement Awards, now Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association (EMWWAA) and the organisation Ethnic Minority Women in Welsh Healthcare (EMWWH). She sits on many committees focusing on equality, diversity and academia. References Indian geneticists Welsh geneticists Women geneticists Academics of Cardiff University Alumni of Cardiff University Delhi University alumni Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom Officers of the Order of the British Empire Indian emigrants to Wales Fellows of the Royal College of Pathologists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century Indian women scientists Indian women biologists 20th-century Indian biologists Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom