Race and Health Matters

Race and Health Matters is a new podcast which cuts through complexity, translating research and insight into practical, actionable steps to build a fairer, more inclusive health and care system.

Drawing on lived experience and insights from diverse experts, leasers, and changemakers, this podcast launches with a series offering an honest and comprehensive look at what racial inequality in the NHS workforce really looks and feels like.

Contributors

Host

Dr Guddi Singh

Dr Guddi Singh is a paediatrician, broadcaster and researcher whose work sits at the fault line between medicine, inequality and social change. From co-writing and appearing in the BBC documentary with David Harewood Why Is Covid Killing People of Colour? to her clinical, academic and public work on structural inequality, she has spent years helping difficult conversations break into the open.

She is also co-founder of WHAM, the Wellbeing and Health Action Movement, which supports clinicians to act on health inequalities in practice. Alongside this, her PhD draws on philosophy, feminist empirical bioethics, decolonial thought, sociology and public health to ask what a more historically honest and justice-oriented medical professionalism might look like.

As host of Race and Health Matters, Guddi brings warmth, bite and intellectual rigour to some of the most urgent questions facing the NHS today.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/guddi-singh

Guests

Guest

Dr Ashok Patnaik

Dr Ashok Patnaik is an experienced qualitative researcher dedicated to
reducing inequalities in experience of healthcare staff. He has strong topic expertise, having recently worked on a project about how ethnic minority doctors in the UK experience the medical workplace and career progression in medicine.

Guest

Dr Nabeela Kajee

Nabeela is a medical doctor, health equity researcher, and global health practitioner whose career spans clinical practice, academic research, and system-level health innovation. She works at the intersection of healthcare delivery and evidence-based reform, with particular expertise in context responsive approaches to care in several settings. Drawing on a deep understanding of structural health inequities, Nabeela advances practice informed research that supports workforce sustainability and inclusivity.

Guest appearance on:

What Lived Experience Tells Us About the Ethnicity Pay and Progression Gap

Guest

Dr Nandi Simpson

Nandi joined the NHS Race and Health Observatory (RHO), as Director of Implementation, in 2023 to develop the organisations implementation function. In this role, she leads on developing and embedding processes that facilitate the translation of recommendations into actions that enhance race equity in the NHS.

She is also the Observatory’s lead on the maternal and neonatal racial health inequalities Learning and Action Network, delivered in partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Health Foundation.

Nandi has a background in research and extensive experience of developing and implementing strategies to enhance and embed evidence-based practice in the NHS. Nandi is Deputy Chief Executive Officer for the RHO.

Guest appearance on:

Inside the NHS Race and Health Observatory

Guest

Professor Doyin Atewologun

Professor Doyin Atewologun (Professor (Hon.) at the University of Exeter is a psychologist, scholar practitioner, a regular media contributor and multi-award winner in recognition of her innovative methodologies and pioneering work in promoting inclusion and excellence in organisations. She is CEO and Founder of Delta, a niche leadership and inclusion consultancy that serves global clients and was previously Dean of the Rhodes Scholarships, at the University of Oxford and Director of the Gender, Leadership and Inclusion Centre at Cranfield School of Management and Reader. Doyin has addressed global audiences and has been invited to industry judging panels to amplify underrepresented talent and help identify and evaluate outstanding work in academic publications with practical evidence-based impact.

Guest appearance on:

What Lived Experience Tells Us About the Ethnicity Pay and Progression Gap

Guest

Professor Habib Naqvi

At the NHS Race and Health Observatory, Professor Habib Naqvi is accountable for organisation-wide strategic planning, performance, oversight and delivery. He directs the successful implementation of a far-reaching multi-year, multi-million pound work programme with measurable outcomes. He leads national health policy and is responsible for strategic global partnerships that address systemic health inequalities affecting patients, communities and the healthcare workforce.

Guest appearance on:

Inside the NHS Race and Health Observatory