Speakers

Professor Habib Naqvi is Chief Executive of the NHS Race and Health Observatory, which leads work nationally on identifying and tackling ethnic inequalities in health and healthcare. He is accountable for organisation-wide strategic planning, performance, oversight and delivery. He leads national health policy and is responsible for strategic global partnerships that address systemic health inequalities affecting patients, communities and the healthcare workforce.

His prior role was interim Director of the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard at NHS England, where Habib oversaw the national strategic and operational delivery of the aspirations on workforce race equality as set-out in the NHS Long Term Plan.

Habib was awarded an MBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to equality and diversity in the NHS, he received a Fellowship through distinction at the Faculty of Public Health in 2023 and was awarded the title of Honorary Visiting Professor of Health Equity at the Queen’s Institute for Medicine at the University of Bolton. Habib is listed in the Health Service Journal’s ‘100 most influential people in health’.