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Professor of Public Health Equality

I am Professor of Public Health Equality. I lead the Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care System (ICS) Talk, Listen Change (TLC) Workforce Research Programme and the TLC Tackling Health Inequalities research portfolio.

My multidisciplinary, collaborative, and applied research provides evidence for reducing health inequalities focusing on taking an intersectional approach to look at variations in health outcomes based on a range of protected characteristics (sex, gender, ethnicity, age, and social categories (SES, geographical location) and how these affect the experience of health and social care.

My research aims to improve health and social care outcomes for marginalised and disadvantaged communities across the life-course by influencing policy, design, and delivery of inclusive and responsive services, locally, nationally, and internationally.

My research uses innovative ways to engage with diverse communities to involve the lesser-heard voices, prioritise voice and privilege lived experiences. I have developed pathways for inclusive community engagement strengthening prevention and early intervention to address the variations in health and social care outcomes within and between groups. I supervise MSc and PhD students working in my areas of interest.

Qualifications

• PhD (Community and individual identity of the Kashmiri community: a case study of Luton) 91快色of Luton, September 1999
• MA Rural Development, 91快色of Sussex 1991-1992
• BSc (Hons) Earth and Life Studies, 91快色of Derby 1988-1991
• PgCAP, 91快色 2009

Teaching Roles

• Course lead for MSc Public Health
• Lead lecturer for the Health and Social Care Inequalities unit for MSc Public Health
• MSc dissertation supervisor (taught)
• MRes dissertation supervisor
• Medical and Dental Education dissertation supervisor
• MPhil supervisor
• PhD supervisor
• PhD examiner

Research Interests

• Health and social care inequalities (particularly using intersectionality or critical race theory)
• Widening participation of underrepresented groups into education and employment
• Equality, diversity and Inclusion in education
• Access to health care (in particular the role of culture and religion in health behaviour, the role of masculinity in health behaviour).
• Mental health (particularly peri-natal mental health, children and young people鈥檚 mental health and wellbeing)
• Maternal and child health (particularly disability, consanguinity, gestational diabetes)
• Community engagement (particularly participatory approaches with lesser heard voices and co-production)
• Health service systems and service delivery

Service to Academic and Professional Communities

• Senior member of the 91快色 Race Equality Network (REN) (2022-present)
• Senior member of the 91快色鈥檚 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2021-present)
• Senior member of the 91快色鈥檚 Teaching and Learning Student Experience EDI Group (2021-present)
• Senior member of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences Student Recruitment Group (2018-present)
• Senior member of the Institute for Health Research Ethics Committee (2009-present)
• Co-lead of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences Inclusivity Project (2019-present)
• Co-lead lead for the South Asian Belong@Beds Student Group (2021-present)
• Member of the Family Hubs Perinatal and Parent Mental Health Working Group (2023-present)
• Member of the Mental Health Prevention and Promotion Steering Group, Luton Borough Council (2022-present)
• Anchor Institutions Talk, Listen Change Steering Group, Luton Borough Council (2022-present)
• Advisor for Health Education England鈥檚 (HEE) Theory of Change (ToC) Workshops (2022)
• Member of the BLMK Clinical Reference Group to focus on Genetic Risk and Culturally Competent Genetic Services (2020-present)
• BLMK ICB Luton and Milton Keynes Health and Care Partnership Diabetes in Pregnancy Consultation Group (2019-present).
• Member of the NHS England Genetic Risk Expert Reference Group (2018-present)
• Member of the Buckinghamshire Health & Social Care Academy (2021-present).

Selected Research Projects & Consultancy

• Ali, N and Morteanu (2023-present) Talk, Listen, Change (TLC) engaging in a dialogue with the Luton Roma community on access to healthcare services and co-producing solutions. Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board 拢20,073.
• Grant, L., Pappas, Y., Ali, N., Burden, B., Boyle, S and Randhawa G (2022-present) Developing a workforce for integrated care. Health Education England. 拢1,100,000
• Jacob, MA, Saksena, P and Ali, N (2022-present) making it to the Registers Documenting Migrant Carers' Experiences of Registration and Fitness to Practise. Arts and Humanities Research Council (ARCH) 拢428,091.36
• Ali, N and Shah, T (2022-present) Prevention and promotion for better mental health project process evaluation of ELFT Befriender service. Luton Borough Council/Office for Health Improvements and Disparities (OHID) 拢20,000
• Ali, N and Cartwright, S (2021-2022) Talk, Listen, Change Public Health Practitioner, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) 拢42,710.
• Ali, N and Cook, E (2022-2023) Pathways for mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) during COVID-19 in Bedfordshire Hospitals (Bedford Hospital, Luton and Dunstable Hospital and Milton Keynes 91快色Hospital Trust). 拢15,000
• Ali, N., Cook, E. & Randhawa, G., (2022-present). Luton Borough Council. Young Luton Voices: exploring the impact of COVID-19 on young people鈥檚 mental health and co-creating solutions. 拢46,000
• Cook, E.J. Tolliday, E., Ali, N., Suleman, M., Wilkinson, E., Randhawa, G. (2021-22). National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) NIHR135381 - Keech End of life research Partnership NETwork (KEEPNET): A partnership network to enhance research capacity and capability to improve access to palliative and end-of-life care among the ethnic minority population across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Milton Keynes. 拢108,000.
• Ali, N., Cook, E.J., Randhawa, G. (September 2021 - 22). The Chilterns Conservation Board (CCB). Chalkscapes: co-creating solutions with diverse
  communities using greenspaces and the countryside. 拢25,000
• Ali, N., Cook, E.J., Cartwright, S., Randhawa, G. (October 2020- June 21). Luton Borough Council. Engaging in a dialogue on reasons for the disproportionate impact of COVID-19, tackling inequalities and co-developing solutions: a community engagement project in Luton. 拢50,000
• Ali, N, Butt J and Melanie, P (Lesser heard voices: working with Black, Asian and minority ethnic children affected by child sexual abuse. Race Equality Foundation and Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse 拢8,000.
• Ali, N (2020-21) Process evaluation for a community blood pressure pilot programme with African Caribbean men. Race Equality Foundation. 拢3,000.
• Ali, N (2020-21) Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, inequality and improving the experience of healthy ageing for BAME project: a scoping review. Race Equality Foundation. 拢5,000.
• Ali, N., Cook, E., Qureshi, I., Sidika, T., Mahmood, S., Waqar, M. and Randhawa, G (2017-2018) Widening Participation for South Asian students: a pilot of the collaborative-targeted outreach programme, Health Education England 拢20,000.
• Ali, N., Cook, E., Burden, B., Reid, C and Randhawa, G. Exploring the barriers and facilitators to accessing and progressing on NHS funded healthcare programmes and moving into healthcare employment: a qualitative case study of East of England and Thames Valley regions. Health Education England 拢
• Allnock, D, Beckett, H., Ackerley, E, Walker, J., Bostock L., Warrington, C., Papadopoulos, C., Ali, N and Munroe, E (2016-2020) Learning from the experts: young people鈥檚 perspectives on how we can support healthy child development after sexual NSPCC and ESRC.
• Papadopoulos, C., Bernadette, H and Ali, N ( 2016-2019) Stigma and psychological wellbeing among family caregivers of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Autistica Research 拢61,2000.

Publications

Book

• Ali, N., Kalra, V.S. and Sayyid, B. (eds.) (2006) Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain, Hurst & Company: London. An American edition of this book was published in 2008.

Articles

• Cook, E. J., Elliott, E., Donald, L., Gaitan, A., Randhawa, G., Cartwright, S., Waqar, M., Egbutah, C., Nduka, I., Guppy, A., Ali, N. (2023) Knowledge, perceived risk, and attitudes towards COVID-19 protective measures amongst ethnic minorities in the UK: A cross-sectional study. Front. Public Health 10:1060694.
• Cole, B., Craig, G. and Ali, N. (2022) 鈥業ntroduction: 鈥楻ace鈥�, Learning and Teaching in Social Policy in Higher Education鈥�, Social Policy and Society, 21(1), pp.1-11.
• Cook, E.J., Elliott, E., Gaitan, A., Nduka, I., Cartwright, S., Egbutah, C., Randhawa, G., Waqar, M. and Ali, N. (2022) 鈥榁accination against COVID-19: factors that influence vaccine Hesitancy among an ethnically diverse community in the UK鈥�, Vaccines, 10(1), p.106.
• Ali, N., Cook, E., Qureshi, I., Sidika, T., Mahmood, S., Waqar, M. and Randhawa, G. (2021) 鈥楾he collaborative targeted outreach programme (CTOP): a feasibility intervention to increase the recruitment of 鈥榟ome grown 鈥榮outh Asian into nursing and midwifery courses鈥�, Diversity and Equality in Health Care, 18, pp.370-7.
• Cook, E.J., Powell, F., Ali, N., Penn-Jones, C., Ochieng, B. and Randhawa, G. (2021) 鈥業mproving support for breastfeeding mothers: a qualitative study on the experiences of breastfeeding among mothers who reside in a deprived and culturally diverse community鈥�, International Journal for Equity in Health, 20(1), pp.1- 14.
• Cook, E.J., Powell, F.C., Ali, N., Penn鈥怞ones, C., Ochieng, B. and Randhawa, G. (2021) 鈥楶arents鈥� experiences of complementary feeding among a United Kingdom culturally diverse and deprived community鈥�, Maternal & Child Nutrition, 17(2), p.e13108.
• Garcia, R., Ali, N., Guppy, A., Griffiths, M. and Randhawa, G. (2021) 鈥楢nalysis of routinely collected data: Determining associations of maternal risk factors and infant outcomes with gestational diabetes, in Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi and white British pregnant women in Luton, England鈥�, Midwifery, 94, p.102899.
• Qureshi, I., Ali, N. and Randhawa, G. (2020) 鈥楤ritish South Asian male nurses' views on the barriers and enablers to entering and progressing in nursing careers鈥�, Journal of Nursing Management, 28(4), pp.892-902.
• Qureshi, I., Ali, N., Garcia, R. and Randhawa, G. (2020) 鈥業nterventions to widen participation for Black and Asian minority ethnic men into the nursing profession: a scoping review鈥�, Diversity and Equality in Healthcare, 17(2), pp.107-114. Available at:
• Ali, N., Qureshi, I., Sidika, T ., Mondkova A., Mahmood, S., Jan, A., Garcia, R., Cook, E., Burden, B., Reid, C and Randhawa, G. (2018), 鈥楤arriers and enablers for UK 鈥榟ome grown鈥� South Asian prospective students choosing nursing and midwifery courses and careers, Diversity & Equality in Health & Care
• Qureshi, I., Ali, N., Hewson, D., Randhawa, G., and Garcia, R. (2018) What the numbers tell us: a review of nursing course applications, acceptances and attrition rates for British South Asian men Diversity & Equality in Health & Care
• Bamideleh, O., McGarvey, H., Lagan B. M., Ali, N., Chinegwundoh, F., Parahoo, K. and McCaughan, E. (2018) 鈥楬ard to reach, but not out of reach鈥�: barriers and facilitators to recruiting Black African and Black Caribbean men with prostate cancer and their partners into qualitative research鈥�, European Journal of Cancer
• Hann, K. E J., Ali, N., Gessler, S., Fraser, L., Side, L., Waller, J., Sanderson, S. C., and Lanceley, A. (2018) 鈥楢ttitudes towards a programme of risk assessment and stratified management for ovarian cancer: A focus group study of UK South Asians鈥� perspectives鈥� BMJ Open
• Garcia, R.L., Ali, N., Guppy, A., Randhawa, G. and Griffiths, M. (2018) Understanding the consumption of folic acid during preconception, among Pakistani, Bangladeshi and White British mothers in Luton, UK: A qualitative study, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.
• Pervaiz, M., Gilbert, R., and Ali, N (2017) 鈥楾he prevalence, and under-r