Dr Nighat Arif

Dr Nighat is a GP specialising in women’s health and family planning with over 15 years of experience in the NHS and private practice. She is based in Buckinghamshire and is able to consult fluently with patients in Urdu and Punjabi. Dr Nighat is a medical educator and provides teaching to local trainee GPs as well as at national and international conferences. Dr Nighat was nominated for the National Bevan Prize for Health and Wellbeing to acknowledge her exceptional commitment to advancing wellbeing in her community. Dr Nighat has worked to raise awareness on menopause and womens healthcare in Black and Asian women, she presented her clinical work at the ‘Menopause in the Workplace’ Parlimentary comittee hearing. She has also worked with Team Halo, a United Nation (UN) initiative to bring an end to the pandemic and presented at the G7 Global Vaccine Confidence Summit that led to her being awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Science at London City University for Women’s Health, Public Health and Inclusion.

Dr Nighat is the resident doctor on BBC Breakfast, ITV’S This Morning and BBC LookEast, and she hosts her own Sunday Breakfast show on BBC3 Counties Radio. Dr Nighat was also a contributor on the Channel 4 documentary ‘Davina McCall: Sex, Lies and the Menopause’  and has made guest appearances on numerous podcasts tackling taboos around womens health. Dr Nighat has regularly written for various publications including Stylist Magazine, HELLO, Red magazine, Good Housekeeping Magazine and Women in Medicine Magazine and her work around menopause has featured in British Vogue Magazine. She is also the ambassador of  a global charity Wellbeing of Women, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, The Good Grief Trust, HerSpirit, Sikh Forgiveness and Upon Noon.