Dr Nayab Nasir
About Nayab ...
Nayab has 15 years of experience in healthcare industry in the UK and South Asia. She is a medical doctor, a public health professional and hones wide range of experiences including system leadership and governance. Between a range of roles from practice to research, within local authority, the NHS, Civil Service, and voluntary sector, Nayab finds her focus to design a fairer society. She believes in creating equity through compassionate leadership, maximising synergies, and translating data and information into evidence to improve health outcomes and believes in community participation – power with, not power over!
Nayab is particularly proud of a few leadership roles when the focal point was reducing health inequalities gap. She set up a young people’s sexual health service in one of the most deprived localities of England contributing to reduced teenage pregnancy rates. She penned the national CVD Ambitions for England underpinned with robust data and evidence and drove forward CVD secondary prevention across 42 STPs. During pandemic, she led the inception of a pan London System Leadership Group tackling health inequalities through Long covid modelling, needs assessment, equity audit and guidelines.
Nayab is a proud BAME leader, can speak four languages, and has delivered dynamic talks and webinars, and live Q/A sessions on various platforms creating public health awareness to improve immunisation, population health wellbeing. It is her deliberation and passion for population health that she held honorary Public Health role at the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence for three consecutive years, developing public health guidelines and quality standards. She has co-authored reports and paper published in peer review journal and has presented posters at various Public Health England and NHSE conferences.
Nayab believes in the African proverb, “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together".
