Jahangir ALOM

• Emergency Medicine Doctor, Barts Health NHS Trust, London
• Executive Group Member, UK Young Academy, London
• Board Member, Institute of Public Policy Research, London
• Governing Board Member, Stepney All Saints School, London
• Programme Director, Selfless Charity, London/ Sylhet
• Recipient of the British Empire Medal (BEM), for services to tackling health inequalities
• Recipient of the NHS Parliamentary Award (London)
• Alumni Award, University of Southampton, UK

Jahangir graduated from the University of Southampton Medical School with the Dean's Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Faculty of Medicine and holds an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. During the early stages of his career, Jahangir set up an organisation that encouraged and mentored young people from underrepresented backgrounds to consider a career in the NHS. He has worked with the UK Medical Schools Council and Health Education England (now NHS England) to improve widening participation in medicine.

Jahangir is the Programme Director of an international charity, Selfless UK, which delivers evidence-based global health projects in rural Bangladesh.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jahangir was appointed to the Chief People Officer's clinical advisory group and later joined NHS England as the National Clinical Lead for the Staff COVID-19 Vaccination Programme. In this role, he delivered the engagement strategy that saw over 147,000 of the most hesitant healthcare workers take up the vaccine. Jahangir then joined the Health Council at REFORM think tank to support their work on 'reimagining health'.

Jahangir has spent a 4-year term on the British Medical Association's (BMA) Council and has also been elected to several sub-committees, including the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Group and the Junior Doctors Committee. He continues to lobby for better work conditions for minority ethnic doctors. 

Jahangir is an expert in health inequalities and has provided commentary on BBC Newsnight, BBC News, BBC Question Time, SkyNews, Channel 4 and CNN.

He has been ranked as one of the top 100 healthcare leaders in 2022 by the HSJ and is a recipient of the NHS Parliamentary Award.

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