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Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is a
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. He holds titles across various organizations in diverse geographies. Professor Bhutta is the Founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health & Institute for Global Child Health & Development, at the Aga Khan University South-Central Asia, East Africa & United Kingdom. In 2022, Zulfiqar Bhutta is the co-director at the Centre for Global Child Health, at the Hospital for Sick Children, Canada and leads many projects as a Senior Scientist at the Research Institute in the Centre for Global Child Health at Sick Kids. He holds a Professorship at the
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in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and the Division of Epidemiology,
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. Additionally, he holds concurrent professorship at the Department of Paediatrics,
Aga Khan University Aga Khan University is a private research university based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is a non-profit institution and an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. It was founded in 1983 as Pakistan's first private university. Starting in 2000, t ...
in Karachi, Pakistan and at the Schools of Public Health of
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,
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,
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,
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and the
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. He is a designated Distinguished National Professor of the
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and was the Founding Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee of the Government of Pakistan from 2003 to 2014.


Early life and education

Bhutta received his MBBS degree from
Khyber Medical College Khyber Medical College (, abbreviated as KMC) is a public sector medical college located in Peshawar. Khyber Medical College is the oldest medical college of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and was established in 1954. It is considered as a mo ...
in Peshawar, Pakistan in 1977. His PhD work was completed at
Karolinska Institute The Karolinska Institute (KI; ; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden and one of the foremost medical research institutes globally ...
in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh & London), the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (London), American Academy of Paediatrics and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences.


Career

Following the completion of his bachelor's degree, Bhutta began working as House Surgeon in Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar (April–November 1978). He began work in paediatrics as a physician in November 1978 in the Professorial Unit at the Institute of Child Health, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi (Pakistan). Through 1980s he continued his work as a surgeon and paediatrician. He undertook his first professor position in the Department of Paediatrics, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi (Pakistan), from November 1987 to June 1992. In 2005, Bhutta became the Chairman of the Department of Paediatrics & Child Health at the Aga Khan University & Medical Center, a position held until 2008. Following his term as Chairman he became The Noordin Noormahomed Sheriff Professor & Founding Chair, Division of Women & Child Health, The Aga Khan University, a position he held for four years. Bhutta currently holds the titles of co-director of the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and founding director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at the Aga Khan University. In 2020, he was appointed founding director of the Institute for Global child Health & Development at the Aga Khan University and elected Fellow to the Royal Society, United Kingdom. Outside of his professional responsibilities Bhutta serves on various local and international boards and committees, including a series of editorial boards. In his various capacities Bhutta has produced a large collection of publications working with his teams at Sick Kids, AKU and international partners. These include book reviews, chapters, and articles. Since 2019, Bhutta has been a member of the '' Lancet''–SIGHT Commission on Peaceful Societies Through Health and Gender Equality, chaired by
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. In 2020, he served on "A future for the world's children?", a
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-'' Lancet'' Commission, co-chaired by
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and Awa Coll-Seck. Bhutta's research interests include newborn and child survival, maternal and child undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies. He leads large research groups based in Toronto, Karachi and Nairobi with a special interest in research synthesis, scaling up evidence based interventions in community settings and implementation research in difficult circumstances and conflict settings. In particular, his work with community health workers and outreach services has influenced integrated maternal and newborn outreach programs for marginalized populations all over the world. His group's work with the WHO and PMNCH in developing consensus based essential interventions for women, children and adolescents is the dominant set of agreed interventions guiding global policy. Presently Professor Bhutta is leading two global academic consortia; one working on improving reproductive, maternal and child health in conflict settings and humanitarian emergencies and the other focused on integrated investments to improve child and adolescent health and nutrition across the 0–19 years life course.


Awards and recognition

* Bhutta was awarded the
Ihsan Doğramacı Family Health Foundation Prize World Health Organization (WHO) public health prizes and awards are given to recognise major achievements in public health. The candidates are nominated and recommended by each prize and award selection panel. The WHO Executive Board selects the w ...
by
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in 2014, *
Pride of Performance The Pride of Performance (), officially known as the Presidential Pride of Performance, is an award bestowed by the Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan to recognize people with "notable achievements in the field of art, science, literature, sp ...
Award by the
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Mamnoon Hussain in 2017. * Bhutta was a recipient of the
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(
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) in 2016. * He was elected a
Foreign Member of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...
in 2020. * He was awarded the Roux prize for public health achievements in 2021. * He was awarded the John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award in 2022. * He was awarded the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research in 2023.


References

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