Research on health systems, financing of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention, tobacco control, food system regulation and standards, reproductive health service delivery, and assessment and cost effectiveness analyses of health policies. Other responsibilities include grant writing and advocacy.

Responsible, as part of a team, for the preparation of the Regional Framework for Primary Health Care for the WHO Western Pacific Region in consultation with Member states for adoption at the WHO’s 73rd Regional Conference 2022.

Lecturer, Master of Philosophy in Public Policy programme.Responsible for designing, teaching and assessing coursework for a course on the Political Economy of Public Policy for the MPhil Public Policy Programme.

Media Evaluations: Responsible for designing and implementing multiple qualitative evaluations of Alif Ailaan media campaigns and products. Review – Localizing The Discourse (LTD) project: Conducted a review of Alif Ailaan’s LTD project on bringing about the devolution of education reform efforts. Midterm Parliamentary Education Scorecard: Developed, as part of a team, an assessment of constituency performance in education for federal and provincial parliamentarians, through a weighted performance assessment instrument.Nationwide teachers union mapping: Responsible for a national census of teachers unions to map their organizational structures, positions, influence, funding, legal foundations and political economy, for the purpose of broadening their engagement in the process of education reform. Evaluation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Department strategy: Responsible for a qualitative evaluation of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province’s education strategy with a view to identifying structural issues preventing strategic implementation in the province.Assessment of nationwide user-feedback on Education System: Responsible, as part of a team, for the collation and analysis of nationwide district level data on education service delivery in Pakistan and the subsequent dissemination of the findings.

Lecturer, Master of Arts in Gender Studies programme, Center for Excellence in Gender StudiesResponsible for designing, teaching and assessing coursework for courses on Gender and Development and The Feminization of Poverty for the MA Gender Studies programme.

District Development Strategies for Swat, Shangla and Chitral Districts: Responsible for the consultative formulation of 3 four-year district development strategies for the sectors of education, health, agriculture, livelihoods, forestry and fisheries.

District Education Reports for Haripur and Karak: Responsible for the preparation and dissemination of two district education reports to assist district governments in the preparations of annual plans and budgets.

Responsible, as part of a team, for a policy and administrative review within FBR to identify areas for reform, also involving analysis of taxpayer data and the design and implementation of a Tax Education Initiative to help create public support for tax enforcement initiatives.

Research Assistant, Knowledge, Technology and Society Team: Responsible for conducting a systematic review for DFID on the relationship between technological change and agricultural productivity.Research Assistant, Impact and Learning Team: Responsible for an evaluation study of the impact of policy briefs on audiences. Responsibilities included literature reviews, research tool design, primary data collection, interviews and data analysis.

As part of social sector team, responsible for coordination with UN clusters, multiple stakeholder consultations, development of monitoring and evaluation indicators/framework, donor liaisons, research on disaster risk reduction, drafting of early recovery strategies and reconstruction & rehabilitation guidelines for education, health and protection sectors, and carrying out review of lessons learnt for the 2010 Pakistan floods

Responsible for initiating the Development Policy Research Center, developing its research program, drafting research proposals, executing individual projects, coordinating research clusters, organizing conferences, seminars and workshops, and identification and acquisition of funding/research projects, among other research/administrative duties.

Assisted in the execution of multiple research projects and assignments for various bilateral and multilateral agencies like DFID, LEAD, ADB, TAF and JAICA. Also responsible for drafting of presentations on topics ranging from federalism, policy making processes to e-governance. Designed research tools, conducted literature reviews, field research and stakeholder interviews.

Responsible for handling multiple projects, conducting field research, literature reviews, academic editing, and academic event management. Projects included research on informal institutions and land ownership in rural Sargodha and modes of electoral accountability in Pakistan.