Women’s Health & Wellbeing Advisor | Speaker | Community & Systems Leader
Prevention-Led Leadership in Women’s Health and Wellbeing
Finalist – Northern Power Women Awards 2026 | Person with Purpose
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ABOUT ME
Shamime Jan is a women’s health and wellbeing leader working at the intersection of culture, community, and health systems.
Rooted Power in women’s health, culture, and community systems. Culturally responsive, prevention-led solutions that work for women — and for systems.
With nearly three decades of experience, her work translates lived experience and frontline delivery into culturally intelligent, prevention-focused approaches that improve engagement, trust, retention, and long-term outcomes for women.​
IMPACT
My work positively impacts women by enhancing their confidence, wellbeing, and leadership pathways.
What changes because of this work:
For women
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Increased confidence, self-belief, and agency
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Improved physical and emotional wellbeing
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Sustained participation rather than drop-off
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Culturally safe spaces for healing, movement, and leadership
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Pathways into leadership, paid work, and influence
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For systems
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Improved engagement and retention with South Asian and minoritised women
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Prevention-led outcomes aligned with population health priorities
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Reduced reliance on crisis-led or one-off interventions
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Scalable, community-tested models transferable across places and populations
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This impact extends across participants, coaches, sessional workers, volunteers, women-led organisations, and partner systems.
WHAT I DO
I provide a range of services to help organisations connect with diverse women and create meaningful programmes
Consultancy & Advisory
(NHS, Public Health, Research, VCSE)
I support organisations in designing, adapting, and scaling culturally responsive, women-centred health and wellbeing approaches.
Public Speaking & Knowledge Exchange
I deliver grounded, evidence-informed talks and learning sessions on women's leadership, community empowerment, and health inequalities to inspire change.
CO-DESIGNED & SCALABLE PROGRAMMES
My programmes are co-designed with women, with a focus on prevention, participation, and sustainable workforce development.
All programmes below have been co-designed with women, delivered in community settings, refined through evidence and feedback, and are scalable.
Each programme supports prevention, participation, and workforce sustainability.
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Pre-Diabetes & Diabetes Prevention Programme (South Asian women)
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Trauma Awareness & Healing Circles
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Weight Loss Challenges
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Bollyfit / Afrofit Physical Activity Programmes
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Bollyfit / Afrofit Coaching Programme
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(Active IQ accredited – workforce and leadership pathway for women)
APPROACH
Rooted Power is leadership grounded in lived experience, cultural intelligence, and long-term thinking
Rooted Power is:
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Community-embedded
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Women-centred and trauma-aware
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Prevention-led
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Adaptable across health, research, and governance contexts
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Rooted Power prioritises trust, sustained participation, and long-term public value over short-term outputs.
VALUE FOR SYSTEMS & HEALTH ECONOMICS
Shamime's models align with population health management, women’s health strategies, and prevention agendas
Shamime’s work supports better use of public resources by:
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​Improving uptake and retention (reducing repeated outreach costs)
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Supporting early intervention and prevention
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Reducing reliance on crisis-led or clinical-only responses
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Strengthening continuity through trusted community delivery
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Developing community-based workforce capacity
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Her models align with population health management, women’s health strategies, and prevention agendas, and are designed to be cost-effective, scalable, and transferable.
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​(Programme-level evaluation and cost-avoidance insights available on request.)
