Membership of Boards in Pakistan

• Founder and President of Heartfile.

• Founder of Pakistan’s Health Policy Forum and think tank.

• Council Member, Pakistan Health Policy Council of the Ministry of Health.

• Member, Sub-Committee on health; National Commission on Government Reforms.

• Member, Board of Directors; Trust for Voluntary Organizations in Pakistan.

• Member, Board of Directors; Infrastructure Project Development Facility, Ministry of Finance, Pakistan.

• Chair, Pakistan Cardiac Society Council for Preventive Cardiology, 2004.

• Co-Coordinator, Rawalpindi/Islamabad Chapter, Pakistan Cardiac Society, 1999-2002.

• Advisor, National High Blood Pressure Education Programme of Pakistan.

 Strategic Support to the health sector in Pakistan

• Devoted time on a pro bono basis voluntarily to establish and lead Pakistan’s Health Policy Forum – the first health sector think tank within the country. Initiated 2005 and ongoing

• Devoted time on a pro bono basis voluntarily to set up and institutionalized the National Action Plan on Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases and Health Promotion in Pakistan. Initiated in January 2003 and ongoing

• Devoted time voluntarily to author the first health systems reform plan for the country entitled “the Gateway paper – Health Systems in Pakistan: a way Forward”. Paper released in 2006

• Devoted time voluntarily to chair the  Vision group of the Planning Commission of Pakistan on Health in 2004

• Devoted time voluntarily to chair the thematic group on Health of the Planning Commission of Pakistan on Health for the Millennium Development Goal Project in 2005

• Devoted time voluntarily to lead the development of the National document on Health Statistics in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Statistics (work ongoing)

• Devoting time voluntarily to lead the process and is therefore providing strategic help to the Government of NWFPs Department of Health to develop a Health Policy for NWFP (work ongoing under an MOU) 2006

• Devoting time voluntarily to lead the process of developing a health policy based on the Gateway Paper’s approach to Health Systems in Pakistan

• Special Advisor, Pakistan Medical Research Council, Government of Pakistan.

Awards and distinctions

Publications

Boards and groups - International

Boards and groups - National

Invited talks in international meetings

Key recent talks in Pakistan

Conferences organized

Research projects

Key media personal profiles