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A physician by training with MPH, presenting over 25 years of progressive community health and social development accomplishments utilizing creative leadership, program designing and implementation, systems restructuring, providing technical assistance to provincial health departments, strategic planning and management, monitoring and evaluation skills while building and managing strong professional teams. Solid community health and development insight with the ability to analyze situations, conceptualize and plan new interventions, streamline operations. With a keen eye for details, moves and relates effortlessly across all levels of management and stakeholders.
A medical graduate with MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the Aga Khan University, Pakistan and PhD (Health and Community Services) from The University of Melbourne, Australia.He has worked extensively in areas of project development and management for research and facility based and community based heath care intervention programs. His research work and consulting areas include Infectious diseases (Tuberculosis and MDR TB, Avian Flu, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, Rabies, disease surveillance) , reproductive, maternal and child health (maternal mental health, maternal obstetrical and physical health, vaginal infections during pregnancy and neonatal health, maternal nutrition, EmONC services, community based family planning services) and health care systems (services utilization in primary healthcare, training needs assessment for care providers in primary health care, evaluation of policy implications for health care providers). His areas of health intervention programs designing and implementation have been evaluation of Infectious disease surveillance mechanisms, facility based and community based mother and child health promotion programs, health and nutrition programs at the district, provincial and federal levels in Pakistan. He has been involved in designing training materials/modules and conducting trainings to various tiers of public health staff in Pakistan for primary health care programs and health care research.
He has extensive experience of formulating personnel policies, and restructuring and rightsizing organization like Pakistan Air Force. Thereafter he contributed towards improving health of the school going children while working with National Commission for Human Development. During 34 years with Pakistan Air Force (30 years in uniform followed by 04 years as Human Resource consultant), he served at the senior human resource appointment (Assistant Chief of Air Staff - Personnel) with the role to formulate personnel policies regarding staffing, recruitment, career progression, incentives, and discipline matters of PAF. His contribution was acknowledged by Chief of Air Staff as “the contribution, which helped a great deal in raising the overall efficiency of the PAF”. Subsequently, as Chairman Establishment Review Team, he was mandated to right size the PAF establishment in accordance with the current role and task of each unit. The team evaluated every unit and recommended the optimum manpower required for each unit.
A medical doctor with Masters in Public Health with distinction from University of Warwick, UK in 2007. He brings more than a decade's experience of working with the Government and private sector, including JICA, GIZ, DFID, UN agencies, International and national NGOs. He work is focused at community health, program designing, systems development, strategic planning and management, and monitoring and evaluation. His prime areas of research include Health Economics (Economic Evaluations and Health Accounting), Maternal and Child Health (Family planning, Reproductive health, Community Case Management of childhood illnesses), Health Systems (services utilization and quality of care), development of healthcare regulations, training needs assessment for care providers in PHC setting, evaluation of policy implications for health care providers, Nutrition (CMAM, School Health and Nutrition, malnourishment in children and women of child bearing age), Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector, and Child rights including child labor and early marriages. He has been affiliated with institutions/associations like Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), International Health Economics Association (IHEA), Pakistan Health Economics Network (PHEN), South Asian Public Health Forum, and Evidence Based Policy in Development Network (EPDN).