(Director and Co-Founder)

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or...some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for . We are the change that we seek.” 

~ Barack Obama

Nafiza is a healthcare professional with over 25 years with experience across a wide range of health-related areas. Primarily she qualified as a Nurse in 1989 and went onto completing her midwifery in 2000 from City University London.  Throughout her career she has developed a strong passion for inequalities of healthcare in the health systems not just in the UK but in the developing world too. In pursuit of her passion she completed a Public Health Masters, secured a scholarship with the Department of International Development , and worked as a project manager for Women’s health projects in South Asia.  She has through her work overseas and through her experience of working in health care in the UK gained first-hand experience of observing and living the experiences of the disparities and inequalities that exist in both healthcare systems. 

She has observed how there is an unseen two-tier system that exits in the NHS and seen how women and families of colour from all community’s struggle and suffer with the adverse effects of such inequalities and inequities. This subsequently giving rise to poor and adverse outcomes.  She can also relate from her lived experience as a professional coming from a minority background how she has faced unconscious bias and micro-aggressions throughout her midwifery career.  She has seen how structural racism has a direct effect on healthcare professionals coming from black/ brown groups and how these professionals are undermined and excluded when it comes to career progression and representation in senior level positions of power resulting in poor representation of the black/brown women that use the services.

Nafiza went on to complete an MA in Medical Education in 2009. She is a great believer that education is the way forward to eliminating behaviours and prejudices that exist within the system, she believes that decolonising educational material is one of the most effective changes that needs to happen to make any significant progress.

Nafiza is determined to tackle these issues and is striving to influence change towards a more equitable and fair system.  She is particularly focused on the South Asian community, as there is little or no representation in this group for both women and their families and midwives and other healthcare professionals in this group. 

Nafiza is a mother of three. She loves everything Asian and is immensely proud of her heritage. She enjoys spending time perfecting her understanding of her rich culture.