Dr Sumayyah Mian
Sumayyah is a GP registrar with a strong practical and academic background in education, lifestyle medicine and population health. She graduated from The University of Manchester before completing an Academic Foundation Programme with Keele University’s School of Primary Care. She led a systematic review and meta-analysis in health literacy whilst exploring health policy and developing and evaluating new primary care pathways for her local CCG. She is an LMC representative, seeing how leadership at local levels can work to effectuate and respond to policy and change.
In 2021, to support inclusive access to leadership training, Sumayyah successfully applied for an HEE EoE leadership fellow and became her training scheme representative. Through this, she worked collaboratively to produce 7+ leadership modules and conducted a survey of 1792 trainees and educators to inform regional leadership and management training strategy for 7000+ trainees.
Health equity is a developing interest, driving her to develop an innovative training programme in health deprivation for her training programme and a role as a Barts Medical School tutor for their GP Community Diagnosis module. This interest in health equity also led to PGCs in Medical Education and Health Informatics to better learn and share how data, technology and integrated care can support equitable population health at scale.
Over the years, Sumayyah has presented and won multiple prizes for her research and quality improvement projects at national and international conferences.
Outside of medicine, she is a mum of two, lifelong martial artist, and budding gardener.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Sumayyah sees herself as working at system level in the future. She is therefore eager for the unique access the HSCSC and NAO provide to national policy, data and evaluation and decision-making for larger-scale population health management. She has seen the impact and influence of national decision-making on the experience of delivering care locally and how this fed through to patient experience and outcomes. She, therefore, hopes to understand better the reasoning and processes behind national decision-making, how the health system components fit together to get things done, and, importantly, what leadership behaviours from those practising at the top of their game effectuate this. Part of this includes how local decisions link in with the national framework and unpick the potential conflicts or misalignments between the two levels. This includes the challenges faced at national level and how to approach these with a balanced view in the future.
Through the immersive nature of the scheme, Sumayyah is keen to develop a range of transferrable skills through mentorship from experienced leaders, including managing large complex projects and uncertainty, collaboration and communication with a range of stakeholders, strategy, negotiation skills and utilisation of larger data sets. She is looking forward to building mutually beneficial relationships with like-minded individuals and learning from their journeys about opportunities and challenges for personal development.
She hopes to use these experiences and insights to become a mentor herself and be well-placed to deliver integrated, inclusive healthcare for personalised and population health.
