As a public health professional and nutrition expert, I am passionate about chronic disease prevention, the double burden of malnutrition, maternal and child health, infection prevention and control, monitoring and evaluation, and designing intervention programs promoting healthy living.
Having a unique background in cross-cultural leadership, communication, and knowledge of different languages, I aim to reach the needs of a diverse population. I am interested in exploring careers in an international organization or health sector where I would strengthen the health system, aid in research and the implementation of appropriate health policies, and, most importantly, reach the disadvantaged groups with available and culturally relevant public health programs that would produce lasting changes that would sustain without external support.
• Resource person for identifying bottlenecks in public health service provision in Pakistan.
• Formulating PC-1 of Punjab, KP, and Balochistan targeting government’s ability to deliver better quality, accessible and equitable health services in healthcare facilities of Pakistan.
• Contribute to the effective and efficient program design, development, implementation, and monitoring of interventions for public health and health systems in Pakistan.
• Conduct need-based capacity building of healthcare service providers on critical public health issues, such as maternal and child health issues, communicable and non-communicable diseases.
• Facilitate and coordinate between various key stakeholders, provincial and national levels.
• Design and facilitate data collection and collation activities, including but not limited to surveys, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions on generating inputs, information, statistical data including gender disaggregated data, and producing relevant analysis reports.
• Facilitated the Ministries and Provincial Departments of Health to strengthen IPC at Pakistan's healthcare facilities.
• Developed IPC and AMR proposals, budget plans, and monitoring and evaluation reports of ongoing capacity-building training programs.
• Supervised the IPC teams and successfully delivered certified IPC training as a master trainer to over 1000 healthcare workers and prepared management plans of training.
• Maintained communication, meetings, and provided relevant recommendations to healthcare stakeholders and policymakers.
• Initiated a public health intervention program for 15,000 Trilogy employees that promoted the consumption of healthy food items according to the Dietary Guidelines of America to prevent obesity and diabetes
• Expediated the development of policy aiming to reduced intake of sugar-sweetened beverages
• Executed bio-metric screening to determine the nutritional status of the Trilogy employees
• Conducted nutritional counseling of employees that included healthy eating and living, quitting smoking, and adopting healthy behaviors through goal-oriented activities
• Headed the promotion and financing of work desk stations to increase productivity and wellness of employees
• Supported nutrition initiative aiming to improve the nutritional status of 500 women and their children through optimal IYCF practices and improved diet among the population with low socio-economic status
• Directed and supervised the team, design of posters and brochures, development of social media content and implementation of nutrition, and IYCF campaigns