In 2020, Doctors of the World UK launched the National Health Advisors co-production work, to ensure people with lived experience of migration, healthcare exclusion, and the asylum system have a greater influence over healthcare policy and practice, using their personal knowledge.

National Health Advisors know best of the impact of healthcare policies and practice to daily life, and their voices should be at the centre of changing public perspectives, achieving well-informed inclusive services, and driving sustainable, systemic, policy change in healthcare. 

National Health Advisors work as an equal partner at Doctors of the World, coproducing accessible resources, co-delivering health access training to migrants, and strategically engaging with external health bodies in policy influencing, media, and campaigns. So far, the National Health Advisors have delivered 16 training sessions to external organisations and been an accredited contributor to 24 publications. 

If you are a group of migrants, refugees, or people seeking asylum and want to learn more about your right to access healthcare and practical advice, please message Anna Miller on amiller@doctorsoftheworld.org.uk.