Bola Owolabi is Chief Inspector of Primary Care and Community Services at the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Prior to that role, she was Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England. She's a Board member of Housing 21 , a leading, not for profit, national provider of Social Housing. She's an Honorary Professor at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Birmingham. She works as a General Practitioner in the Midlands Region of England. In addition to her roles in health policy, academia & the not for profit sectors, Bola is Vice President of the Royal Society for Public Health, the oldest public health organisation established by Royal Statute in the UK. Bola has particular interests in reducing health inequalities through Integrated Care Models, Service Transformation, and using data and insights for quality improvement. She spearheaded NHS England's flagship Core20PLUS5 approach to narrowing health inequalities. She was, until recently, National Speciality Advisor for Older People and Integrated Person Centred Care at NHS England and Improvement, where she led the Anticipatory Care Workstream of the National Ageing Well Programme. She worked as a member of the Ministerial Taskforce during the COVID-19 pandemic response. She is an alumni of Ashridge Executive Education/Hult International Business School and holds a Masters degree with distinction in leadership (Quality Improvement). She holds an NHS Leadership Academy Award in Executive Healthcare Leadership for Clinicians.

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