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Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Jeddah Governorate, Saudi Arabia

• Advisor/ consultant for a US$2.5 Billion Poverty Alleviation Fund (LLF) focused on Health, Agr, and Inf.
• Execution and monitoring of operations for project portfolio and pipeline development. This includes, but is not limited to, sourcing of projects with high quality-at-entry, and providing technical support for.
• Ensuring critical quality preparation activities including implementation planning to mitigate factors that risk achieving maximum impact.
• Developing a fund level Results management framework for promoting overall alignment with Fund strategy while also clarifying the overall impact (effectiveness) of fund (and projects) activities.
• Developing monitoring mechanisms for effective oversight to ensure targets are met promoting a) timely availability of well-aligned projects, b) quality project preparation, and c) effective implementation, all to.
• Developing regular reporting mechanisms as per stakeholder requirement including, templates, tools, and channels, standardized to the extent possible e.g. an online dashboard which is customized to the reporting needs.

Pakistan

• Consultant with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) for providing technical support to the Polio Program in Pakistan.
• Led the Innovation and Operations Research Task Team of the Pakistan Polio
• Program.
• Engaged across all Task Teams to identify and implement new analysis to increase program insight into trends and associated policy-related findings, challenges, and priorities.
• Identified gaps and devised improvements in program systems and data/ information streams at provincial and national level.
• Developed new concepts and ideas for the evaluation of residual poliovirus transmission risk in areas with ongoing circulation and/or among high risk sub-populations.

Islamabad, Pakistan

• Polio Post-Campaign Monitoring Project (PCM), Pakistan
• Technical lead of PCM, a National project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Was Instrumental in successfully turning around an ailing national project and bringing it back on track.
• The project (ongoing) was focused on assessing oral vaccine coverage after every Polio immunization round (community level immunization campaigns in children under 5 years).
• Incorporated measures ensuring a national survey of 30,000-50,000 households was completed within three days (up to 100,000 children included in sample), with verified quality results available within seven days of.
• Designed and implemented processes for quality control and oversaw all aspects of the assessment influencing data quality and data. This ranged from the methodology design, questionnaire development, training sessions’.

Islamabad

New Orleans

• Primary responsibility for leading and successful completion of the following public health assessment and research projects:
• Impact Evaluation of a regional HIV Behavior Change Communication Campaign in 5 Southern African countries, including Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zambia.
• Differential effectiveness of the OneLove behavior change communication campaign among mobile and immobile groups in Southern Africa.
• HIV testing patterns among resident partners of mobile individuals in Southern Africa potentially contributing to risk of HIV infection and spread in the populace.
• Evaluating the impact of the post-conflict insecurity on school enrollments in Iraq.
• Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of Needle Exchange Programs in preventing HIV seroconversion among injection drug users.

Gaziantep, Turkey

• Technical Lead for Community based assessment in Northern Syria.
• Designed and oversaw the execution of a mixed-methodology (sequential exploratory) mortality assessment design that was compliant with the current security situation in the region – SMART Survey. It was a Community.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Interned at the Center for Global Health with the Disease Elimination & Eradication Branch within the Global Immunization Division.
• Worked with the EMRO team on polio eradication, & measles and rubella elimination.
• Completed an assessment of the polio eradication status for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, and also an analysis of methodologies adopted for rubella elimination by Eastern Mediterranean countries (work presented at.

Pakistan

• Project Manager:
• Pakistan National Emergency Department Surveillance Project (Pak-NEDS).
• Multicenter nationwide surveillance development project involving seven major tertiary care centers across Pakistan, a combination of public and private institutions.
• The surveillance system successfully catered to the massive volume of emergency cases at these centers with almost 300,000 cases being registered in the surveillance system in four months
• Coverage rate of over 90% in the last month.
• Responsible for  Designing, and operationalizing a common surveillance strategy for the centers. Dealings with stakeholders and consensus building on project issues. Developing study tools for data.

Pakistan

• Commercial Driver Accident Research Survey.
• A Nationally representative survey assessing aberrant and hazardous driving behaviors among the Mobile population of commercial drivers in Pakistan.

National Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance Cell, Islamabad

• Interned at the National Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) Surveillance cell of the WHO Polio Eradication Initiative.
• Analyzed surveillance data from across Pakistan.
• Conducted Quality Assurance Surveys during national polio immunization days.

Lahore, Pakistan

Islamabad

Worked as an intern in the earthquake relief activities after the earthquake of 2005. Was a part of the project team developing and maintaining five comprehensive health care facilities in the earthquake affected areas. An information system was designed and implemented to monitor the disease patterns coming to these facilities and also for monitoring the.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Global Health Systems & Development, 3.9

Master'S Degree, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Doctor Of Medicine (Mbbs), Medicine And Surgery

Certificate, Disaster Resilience Leadership