Alia is a Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist whose interests lie in ethnic inequalities and diabetes. She helped established and run a bi-lingual medication review service in NHS Glasgow in 2002. This was the “MELT” service (Minority Ethnic Long Term medicines Service) which operated for a over a decade. She has received several awards for her work in which the service has been recognised both locally and nationally. She was a member of the South Asian Health Foundation and had the role of Regional lead and CEO for 2 years. She was the first pharmacist on the Primary Care Diabetes Society.

She currently works freelance for the NHS and for companies delivering education around the UK to healthcare professionals.