Alia is a part-time Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist for Primary Care Sheffield, whose interests lie in ethnic inequalities and diabetes. She helped to establish and run a bilingual medication review service in NHS Glasgow in 2002 and received local and national awards for this work. She has chaired the NHS Glasgow Diabetes Ethnicity and Inequalities Group in the past. 

Alia has been running outreach clinics for South Asian people with diabetes for over a decade and was a member of the Diabetes Working Group for the South Asian Health Foundation (SAHF) for 13 years and had the role of Regional Lead and Chief Executive Officer for 2 years. She was the first pharmacist on the Primary Care Diabetes Society (PCDS) and a committee member for 7 years.