Alia Gilani is a specialist pharmacist whose interests lie in ethnic inequalities, diabetes and cardio-metabolic disease. She helped establish and run a bilingual medication review service in NHS Glasgow called the Minority Ethnic Long-Term (MELT) medicines service, which operated for over a decade and was recognised with awards at the local and national level.

Alia runs outreach clinics for South Asian individuals with diabetes and cardio-metabolic disease in various locations, including mosques and elderly care centres. She was a member of the diabetes working group for the South Asian Health Foundation for 13 years, and is now an appointed trustee of the foundation. She was the first pharmacist to become a member of the Primary Care Diabetes and Obesity Society committee, a position she held for 7 years, and she currently sits on the Diabetes UK Professional Conference organising committee.