[1] She was the first British Muslim woman to attend the integrated male and female Royal Military Academy Sandhurst's Officer commissioning course.

[11] Ahsan has presented a number of programmes for Channel 4 and the BBC on the COVID-19 pandemic, including Dispatches - Coronavirus: Can Our NHS Cope?

[13][14] In mid‑January 2022, Ahsan wrote dismissively about the unfolding British government partygate crisis from the perspective of a doctor working in emergency medicine during the UK covid pandemic.

[19] Ahsan filmed her experiences during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom for the Channel 4 programme Condition Critical: One Doctor’s Story.

[23] Ahsan is a member of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, which advocates for a public inquiry into the UK's pandemic response.