Dr. Zafar Mirza

MBBS. MPH

Chair of the Advisory Board of the Pakistan Association of Lifestyle Medicine (PALM)

Accumulated experience of 35 years

16 years in international service (WHO)

– 13 years in not-for-profit sector

– 4 years in the public sector

– 2 years in the private sector

▪ Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health (State Minister, 2019-2020)

▪ Set-up and led internationally appreciated national response to global pandemic of Covid-19

▪ Led development of National Package of Essential Health Services for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)

Extended health insurance to transgender and disable people of Pakistan

▪ Currently, Professor of Health System & Population Health, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad

▪ Setting-up a first of its kind School of Universal Health Coverage with a mission to align public health education with national needs and UHC

▪ Director Health System Development at WHO EMRO based in Cairo, Egypt (2016-2019)

▪ Responsible for 22 countries in Middle East, North Africa and Western Asia

▪ WHO Representative in Islamic Republic of Iran (acting)