Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022
Associate Fellow Dr Raghib Ali has been awarded an OBE for services to the NHS and to the COVID-19 Response in the Platinum Jubilee-year Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Raghib is an Honorary Consultant in Acute Medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and a Senior Clinical Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. Prior to becoming an Associate Fellow in 2020 he had been a Doll Fellow at Green Templeton, working as part of the medical teaching programme. In 2022 he was appointed Chief Medical Officer of Our Future Health.
Raghib said, ‘I am delighted to have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for my clinical duties as a front-line NHS doctor at the John Radcliffe Hospital and my work helping us to understand the causes of the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on ethnic minorities; reducing those disparities and improving vaccine uptake.
‘I would never have imagined that one day I would be receiving such an award – as a child on free school meals attending one of the worst performing primary schools in the country, my chances of becoming a doctor were almost zero and so I am very grateful for the opportunities I have had in my career to date and I hope this award will inspire children and young people across the country who find themselves in similarly difficult circumstances.’
Green Templeton congratulates Raghib on this recognition for his major contributions.
