Professor Raghib Ali is the CEO, Chief Investigator and Chief Medical Officer of Our Future Health, the largest health research programme of its kind in the world with over 2 million participants. He is also a Clinical Epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge; Research Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi and an Honorary Consultant with the Office for Health Disparities and Improvement. 

 
He graduated from Cambridge University and has been awarded postgraduate degrees in Epidemiology and Public Health from the Universities of London, Cambridge and Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

His main research interests are in health inequalities and specifically in improving understanding of the causes of non-communicable diseases in neglected populations – in the UK, India and the Middle East.

 
He has been involved in population health research since 2004 nationally and globally, working firstly on UK Biobank, then leading studies of cancer incidence by ethnic group in England and India from 2005 to 2013 and established the UAE Healthy Future Study in 2014 which focuses on understanding the causes of common chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthdays Honours 2022 for services to the NHS and the Covid-19 response and elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, ‘the highest accolade the Faculty can bestow and is awarded to those who have given exceptional service to the science, literature or practice of public health’ in April 2023.