Professor Habib Naqvi is Chief Executive of the NHS Race and Health Observatory, which works nationally and internationally to tackle ethnic inequalities in healthcare by facilitating research, making health policy recommendations, and enabling long-term transformational change.

Habib joined the NHS in 2001 and spent several years working at the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care where he led national policy. Since 2013, Habib directed the development and implementation of national health equity programmes, has forged international partnerships and has given evidence to national committees and inquiries.

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, University of Bolton. Habib is listed in the Health Service Journal’s ‘100 most influential people in health’.