For the academic year 2024-2025, Professor Dame Robina Shah, Director of the Doubleday Centre, is hosting a short series of online ‘conversations’ featuring four of its distinguished Doubleday National Ambassadors – all of whom are leading experts in the fields of health, social care, medicine and law.

The series will be supported by the Doubleday Student Society and open to all undergraduate medical students and staff supporting the MB ChB programme.

The first speaker in our 2024-2025 conversation series is Professor Habib Naqvi, Chief Executive of the NHS Race and Health Observatory in the UK, which works to identify and tackle ethnic inequalities in health and care by facilitating research, making health policy recommendations and enabling long-term transformational change.

Professor Naqvi discusses the prevalence of ethnic and racial inequalities in health and healthcare delivery. His talk focusses on the role of racism and racial bias in health outcomes and in the social determinants of health, the link between NHS staff experience and patient outcomes, and the principles of anti-racism in the healthcare context.

The conversation took place on Wednesday 11 December 2024, and you can watch a recording of it below or on YouTube.

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