Title: Our Future Health - The world’s largest and most diverse consented cohort and clinical trials resource for population health, genomics and prevention research.
Abstract: Our Future Health – established specifically to provide the evidence base for new approaches to prediction, early detection, early intervention and prevention of common chronic disease – is the largest longitudinal health research cohort and clinical trials resource in the world with over 2.5 million consented participants with linked primary and secondary care health data, and over 1.5 million with genomic data and biobanked samples.
The cohort is also the most diverse ever recruited with over 1 million participants from historically under-represented groups (ethnic minorities, younger adults, more deprived populations and coastal/rural populations from all four home nations) thereby ensuring our research will benefit all parts of the population and help to reduce health inequalities.
In 2026, Our Future Health will launch the world’s largest population-scale precision trials platform - accelerating recruitment, broadening participation, and enabling the next generation of diagnostics, therapeutics, and prevention strategies to be tested in real-world populations.
Biography: Professor Raghib Ali is an internationally recognised leader in clinical epidemiology and population health whose research is helping to transform our understanding of the aetiology and prevention of non-communicable diseases, particularly in under-represented populations – in the UK and globally.
He 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 2.5 million participants, focussed on discovering new ways to prevent, detect, and treat disease.
He is also a Clinical Epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge; Research Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi; a Consultant in Acute Medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and an Honorary Consultant with the Office for Health Disparities and Improvement.
He was awarded the OBE for services to the NHS and the Covid 19-response in 2022 and elected to the Honorary Fellowship of the UK Faculty of Public Health in 2023.
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