Founding Director, Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health
Dr Zulfiqar Bhutta is the Founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University where he has had an academic career spanning 30 years. He also holds the Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, a unique joint appointment with AKU.
Dr Bhutta has adjunct professorships at several leading universities globally, including the Schools of Public Health at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), Tufts University (Boston), University of Alberta as well as the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is a designated Distinguished National Professor of the Government of Pakistan and was the founding chair of the National Research Ethics Committee of the Government of Pakistan from 2003-2014.
Dr Bhutta is one of the seven member Independent Expert Review Group appointed by the UN Secretary General for monitoring global progress in maternal and child health MDGs.
Professor Bhutta is the past-president of the Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and the Federation of Asia-Oceania Perinatal Societies and as the president-elect of the International Pediatric Association (IPA), is a leading voice for integrated maternal, newborn and child health globally.
Dr. Bhutta has published eight books, 75 book chapters, and over 600 indexed publications to date, including 110 in the world’s leading journal Lancet alone. He has led most recent major Lancet series on maternal, newborn child health and nutrition.
He leads a large research group based in Pakistan with a special interest in research synthesis, scaling up evidence based interventions in community settings and implementation research.
He has won several awards, including the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Medal of Excellence) by the President of Pakistan for contributions towards education and research (2000) and the President of Pakistan Gold Medal for contributions to Child Health in Pakistan (2004). He is the first recipient of the Aga Khan University Distinguished Faculty Award for Research (2005) and Award of Distinction (2012). Dr Bhutta was awarded the inaugural Programme for Global Pediatric Research Award for Outstanding Contributions to Global Child Health (2009) and the WHO Ihsan Dogramaci award (2014) for substantial contributions to Family Health globally.
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About Zulfiqar Bhutta
Dr Zulfiqar Bhutta is the Founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University where he has had an academic career spanning 30 years. He also holds the Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, a unique joint appointment with AKU.
Dr Bhutta has adjunct professorships at several leading universities globally, including the Schools of Public Health at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), Tufts University (Boston), University of Alberta as well as the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is a designated Distinguished National Professor of the Government of Pakistan and was the founding chair of the National Research Ethics Committee of the Government of Pakistan from 2003-2014.
Dr Bhutta is one of the seven member Independent Expert Review Group appointed by the UN Secretary General for monitoring global progress in maternal and child health MDGs.
Professor Bhutta is the past-president of the Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and the Federation of Asia-Oceania Perinatal Societies and as the president-elect of the International Pediatric Association (IPA), is a leading voice for integrated maternal, newborn and child health globally.
Dr. Bhutta has published eight books, 75 book chapters, and over 600 indexed publications to date, including 110 in the world’s leading journal Lancet alone. He has led most recent major Lancet series on maternal, newborn child health and nutrition.
He leads a large research group based in Pakistan with a special interest in research synthesis, scaling up evidence based interventions in community settings and implementation research.
He has won several awards, including the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Medal of Excellence) by the President of Pakistan for contributions towards education and research (2000) and the President of Pakistan Gold Medal for contributions to Child Health in Pakistan (2004). He is the first recipient of the Aga Khan University Distinguished Faculty Award for Research (2005) and Award of Distinction (2012). Dr Bhutta was awarded the inaugural Programme for Global Pediatric Research Award for Outstanding Contributions to Global Child Health (2009) and the WHO Ihsan Dogramaci award (2014) for substantial contributions to Family Health globally.
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