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Summary
As a seasoned Public Health Researcher with over 15 years of experience, I specialize in maternal and child health and nutrition. My career includes affiliations with esteemed institutions, such as Aga Khan University in Karachi. I have held various positions at organizations like Aga Khan University (AKU), Youth Organization (YO) Quetta, Trust for Vaccines and Immunization (TVI) Karachi, Health and Nutrition Development Society (HANDS) Karachi, Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) Karachi, and other local entities.
In my current role, I work on the AKDN Integrated Immunization and Nutrition Initiative in seven districts of Pakistan. My responsibilities include coordinating with district administration to finalize intervention areas in consultation with provincial and district managements and contributing to project tools. Before this, I was involved in projects like CASI-GBC and BNP GB at Aga Khan University, focusing on the polio super-high-risk councils in seven districts of Karachi, Sindh Province. I managed diverse project tasks across four provinces of Pakistan, including ten districts of Gilgit Baltistan and AJK, providing guidance and support to ensure smooth project execution.
My expertise includes developing data collection tools, managing translations, and maintaining robust communication with stakeholders such as government officials, civil society organizations, and community representatives. I ensure timely and transparent reporting of project activities and monitor project-related activities through qualitative and quantitative data collection, regularly preparing and submitting monthly progress reports.
I hold master's degrees in public health from Sarhad University in Peshawar and in Social Work from the University of Karachi. Currently, I serve as a Research Specialist at the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University. My skills encompass project planning, implementation, and execution, with a strong background in conducting research and advancing knowledge in public health.
Projects
Experience
Research Specialist
District Monitor
Manager
· Provision direction and facilitate project team during the project implementation.
· To develop project data collection tools and translations.
· Coordination and maintaining liaison with Government officials, civil society organizations, community representatives and other project stakeholders.
· Provide regular updates of the project activities to all stakeholders according to the agreed timeline and deliverables.
· Monitoring of project related activates i.e. qualitative and quantitative data collection.
· To develop and submit monthly progress reports of the project activities.
· Other tasks assigned by the Principal investigator.
Research Specialist
· To look after and supervised socio-behavioral aspects of research to be conducted on health and health related aspects in the department
· To develop project data collection tools and reporting
· To train and teach research medical officers, field supervisors, and interviewers according to need and requirement of each project
· Coordination and liaison with NGOs and Government departments
· Monitoring and evaluation of research projects
· To develop frameworks for monitoring and evaluation
· Translation and description of qualitative data
· To asses and recruitment of employees
· To designed community mobilization activities for health education and promotion
Research officer-Research Coordinator
· To implement, supervise and monitor field activities of Project
· To develop study protocol and instruments
· To conduct training of study team, community based health care providers (Research Officers, Doctors, Data Collectors and Vaccinators)
· To create and enhance liaison with all stakeholders communities and government
· To ensure quality of data and reporting
· To ensure maintenance of cold chain of Vaccines
· To design operational plan of the project and develop work plan of field staff
· To develop IEC materials and ensure culturally appropriate contents
· To look after all administrative and financial matters
· Translation and transcription of qualitative data
· Look after and assisting data management process
Monitoring Coordinator
Facilitator
Education
Sarhad University of Science & Information Technology
University of Karachi
University of Karachi
Skills
Languages
Endorsements
Shakeel Patrus
Brilliant individual with profound supervisory experience managing and providing technical support to Stunting Prevention research study in Thatta & Sujawal.
