A dynamic Program & Research Manager with 10 years of experience leading large-scale public health programs and research studies funded by international agencies in Pakistan's leading healthcare, education, and research organizations. Highly skilled in program management, clinical research, stakeholder cultivation, training, and development. Passionate about designing and executing programs and research that improve people's lives globally. Looking to transition into an executive leadership role.
As a Senior Manager leading the cross-sectional research project on post-tuberculosis health & economic assessment and rehabilitation, also led the public health initiative program on tobacco (Voice Against Tobacco).
• Grant conceptualization, writing, budgeting, and initiation.
• Taking ethical, biological, and nonbiological approvals from all the required national and international committees.
• Development of protocol and standard operating procedures.
• Designing study forms, questionnaires, translations, and their replication on the Android application (Redcap).
• Overall program planning, execution, controlling, and closure.
• Augmentation, engagement, and management of donors and other involved collaborators, partners, and stakeholders.
• Procurement of resources, creation, and maintenance of supply chain management of all programs/research activities.
• Development and presentation of financial reports annually.
Teaching the following courses in the Department of Public Health, Biotech, and Psychology.
Sociology of Health and Diseases - BS First Year.
Behavioral Science of Public Health course - BS Fourth Year.
Led the cross-sectional research on pediatric Neurological and psychological development in lower-middle-income countries. Also led the multinational clinical trial of azithromycin & cefixime drug under the guidelines and collaboration with international donor agencies and partners.
• Research grant conceptualization, protocol writing, program planning, and final budgeting.
• Designing and final approval of all study forms and their replication on Android application.
• Ethical and nonbiological review write-up, defense, and final approval from the committees.
• Management of project officer - BMGF and all related stakeholders of the program.
• Training of all psychologists on psychometric testing of GSED, MDAT, RIAS, and EPDS.
Led successfully the programs of Childhood Tuberculosis, Post Exposure Tuberculosis, and COVID-19 in Indus Hospital, two prisons, community camps, and ten outreach public & private hospitals under the guidelines and supervision of Global Funds.
• Planning, implementation, and supervision of all outreach operations across the cities.
• Team management, goal cascading, and performance assessment of sites and individuals.
• Stakeholders augmentation, engagement, and management.
• M&E of online data on HMIS, and Android Applications.
As a Clinical Psychologist leading therapeutic services along with providing psychotherapeutic sessions, training programs, and administration of Psychometric assessments.
Providing individual and group counseling and psychotherapeutic sessions to adults and children coming with behavioral, social, psychological, and learning difficulties.
Introduced an innovative career and student counseling model (COPE) a three-dimension systematic model of assessment, counseling, and training of students, teachers, and parents.
Augmentation, engagement, and management of all new and old donors and stakeholders
Liaison with private and public institutions for different mental health programs
Administration, interpretation, and evaluation of clients through psychometric testing.
Design and delivering workshops and training programs on multiverse topics related to psychological, behavioral, and learning deficits to the general population.
Designed and introduced a counseling model (COPE), an innovative three-dimensional systematic model of assessment, counseling, and training of students, teachers, and parents of the community.
• Provided individual and group counseling sessions to students, teachers, and parents.
• Assessment and evaluation of students through formal and informal psychometric testing.
• Augmentation, engagement, and management of all new and old donors and stakeholders.
• Development of policy and guidelines for scholarship provision to students of the community.
• Monitoring and evaluation of whole counseling data and development of resource books.
Recruitment, and selection of commissioned, non-commissioned and civilian officers through the deployment of formal and informal psychometric testing of all armed forces of Pakistan.
Mobilized in multiple drug trial and research projects including mental-health in school, postnatal depression maternal & child health, resistant psychosis, at-risk mental state, and self-harm.
Data collection and screening of participants in different ongoing researches and drug trials
Delivered interventions in large scale postnatal research to new mothers under LTP model
Administration, interpretation, and evaluation of client through psychometric testing
Liaison with government departments and management of all stakeholdersÂ
Mediation in research support of data processing operations for large survey researches.
Training and mentoring of the field team and internship students.