Sabina Hafesji

Co-chair and co-founder of the NHS Muslim Women’s Network

Sabina is chair and co-founder of the NHS Muslim Women’s Network.

With over 20 years of experience in health and care, she worked for 15 years at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and a year as a senior policy advisor at NHS Confederation. In 2020, she joined NHS England as a provider policy senior manager, later working as a senior programme manager in children and young people's mental health, and is currently working as a strategy and policy senior manager.

Sabina holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Health Policy from Imperial College London, where she earned a merit overall and a distinction for her dissertation on CQC inspections which considered if CQC inspections encourage improvement in specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in London.

Sabina was recognised as one of the 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health by HSJ in 2022. Here’s a link to the an article about the NHS Muslim Women's Network.