Team

Founder-Director, ISS, a private research and human resource development organization, established in 1978
Team Leader, Heritage Education in Punjab for Promoting Peace, Tolerance and Interfaith Harmony 2021
Lead Trainer, Countering Violent Extremism, Promoting Social Cohesion, Critical Thinking and Leadership 2020
Consultant, Strategic Planning of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Commission on the Status of Women 2018
Education Sector Specialist, Evaluation of CIDA Bangladesh Country Program, 2008-2013
Certificate Program on Sexual Harassment at Work Place and Anti-Sexual Harassment Legislation. Mehergarh: A Centre for Learning, Islamabad, 10-11 April, 2020

Senior Consultant, World Health Organization (WHO) [present]
Global Advisor and Programmes Leader, Communication for Development (C4D), Communication for Health (C4H), and Humanitarian Emergencies Communications [2006 - present]
Director of Communications with the Pan American Health Organization / WHO Regional Office for the Americas; Myanmar Joint Peace Fund; World Vision International (WVI); and the Earth Council [1996 - 2020]
Strategist, Writer, Photojournalist, Trainer, Spokesperson, and Public Speaker
News Reporter/Features Writer, The Washington Times [1984 - 1987]

Project Director, Principal Investigator at Institute for Families in Society (IFS) [Present]
Senior Advisor at Group Care Global (GCG) [Present]
Independent Consultant to Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Greenville Health System (GHS), World Vision, Fund for Global Human Rights, International Rescue Committee (IRC), Advocates for Youth (AFY), Safe Abortion Access Fund (SAAF of IPPF), and UN Trust Fund for Women (UNTF) [Present]
University of South Carolina - Adjunct Associate Professor Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [Current]
Research on Pregnancy and Birth Inequities in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Voices of Health Care and Social Service Leaders throughout South Carolina; Voices of Women on Medi -caid/Emergency Medicaid During COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-2021)

USAID Small & Medium Enterprise Activity – Legal Expert March 2021
Axis Law Chambers, Islamabad, Partner, 2020 to date
Asian Development Bank - Legal Expert, April 2021
Consultant, Policy & Regulatory Affairs, Higher Education Com -mission of Pakistan (HEC), Government of Pakistan, 2019-2021
Advisor/Consultant, Ministry of Law & Justice, Government of Pakistan, 2018
"The Crisis in Pakistan: Law, Violence, and Lawyers" Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University (Panel Discussion), Princeton, October 2016

Independent consultant for DFID, UNFPA, WHO, UNAIDS, World Bank, Australian DFAT, GIZ, Gates, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Volunteers as trustee to MSI Reproductive Choices (was Marie Stopes)
Ambassador for the international leprosy charity Lepra
Family Life Association of Swaziland - Ambassador and is a director of Babymilk Action
Co-founder of the Family Life Association of Swaziland (an IPPF member organization) Awarded an MBE for services to Bangla -desh in 1992 and the OBE for services to Nigeria in 1999

Member of the current WHO Mentor Panel
Thesis examiner at Karolinska Institute and is currently on other Thesis Panels
Worked on Health Technology Assessment (National Institute of Health and Excellence, UK) and Universal Health Care
Postgraduate clinical training in Sri Lanka (MD) and the United Kingdom (FRCP, PhD)
Work experience through WHO focuses on Essential Medicines (Secretary of Expert Committee 2013), Standard Treatment Guid -elines, and Medicine Regulations (former CEO, National Medi -cines Regulatory Authority, Sri Lanka)

State Minister of health, Pakistan until july 2020
Director health system development at WHO Regional Office for East Mediterranean
Acting WHO Representative for Iran.
Team Leader Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property at WHO headquarters in Geneva
Regional advisor Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies at EMRO
Founding Executive Director "The Network for Consumer Protection" with a focus on health and pharmaceutical policies

Research Professor, University of Ulsan, S. Korea
Postdoctoral Professional Research, University of Ulsan, S. Korea Wrote Peer Reviewed Professional Researcher: "Experimental modelling to optimize the sonication energy in water."
"Deep Eutectic solvent Assisted Dispersion of carbon Nanotubes in water" Frontiers in chemistry (2020) - Wrote Peer Reviewed Publication
Journal Reviewer of water environment research (WER): Journal of the water federation, environmental engineering research, Journal of water process engineering, and measure -ment: Journal of the international measurement confederation

Present senior country manager for Yemen, Sudan and Somalia in EMRO region
Senior specialist proposal, GAVI Alliance, Geneva till 2015
Pakistan Polio Coordinator for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2010-2011
Member of global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization (GAVI) Independent Monitoring Review Committee till 2011
Deputy chief of party (DCOP) for family advancement for life and health (FALAH) project on birth spacing 2007-2012

Public health professional with more than 15 years of experience in health sector in Pakistan
Former National Programme Manager, Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) Pakistan and Project Director National Immunization Support Programme Pakistan, funded by World Bank
Former Director Regulations at the Ministry of NHSR&C, Pakistan
Former Deputy National Coordinator, Monitoring and Evaluation Wing, National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Health Care (Lady Health Workers Programme) Pakistan
Expert in vaccine logistics, supply chain management, implementation and deployment of Gavi CCE-OP cold chain, and Vaccine Logistics Management Information System (vLMIS)

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