Meet the people

Centre for IMPACT is jointly led by Aga Khan University in Pakistan and University of York in the UK with Rawalpindi Medical University Khyber Medical University (Pakistan) partnering and key collaborators in:

• Afghanistan (HealthNet TPO and Kabul University of Medical Sciences)
• Pakistan (Health Promotion Foundation and The Initiative)
• UK (Universities of Oxford and Liverpool)
• Luxembourg (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)

Aga Khan University (AKU), Pakistan

Dr Aysha Almas

Deputy Lead, Research Capacity Strengthening Working Group; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Dr Imran Naeem

Cardiovascular Disease Co-Lead; Assistant Professor

Dr Romaina Iqbal

Co-Lead, Cardiovascular Disease research theme; Lead, CEI Working Group; Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

Dr Zainab Samad

Co-Director; Co-lead, Cardiovascular Disease research theme; Professor & Chair, Consultant Cardiologist, Dept of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Pakistan

Khurram Jamal Khan

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Co-Lead; Research Specialist

Mr Ali Hussaini

Deputy Lead, CEI Working Group; Research Manager

Mr Imran Ahmed Chauhadry

Deputy Lead, MEL Working Group; Director, Projects & Data Management Unit

Syeda Nadia Bokhari

Co-Lead, Knowledge Exchange, Dissemination and Impact

Zulfiqar Bhutta

Lead, MEL Working Group; Founding Director of the Institute for Global Health and Development and the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

Dr Salim S Virani

Co-Lead Research Capacity Strengthening Working Group; Vice Provost Research, Professor and Staff Cardiologist, Department of Medicine

University of York (UoY), UK

Professor Kamran Siddiqi

Professor in Public Health

Jenny Westad

IMPACT Programme Manager (Chair of PMG)

Professor Najma Siddiqi

Professor of Psychiatry

Dr Harriet Evans Tang

Knowledge Exchange, Dissemination and Impact Co-Lead

Prof. Helen Elsey

Co-Lead, KEDI Working Group; Professor of Global Public Health

Professor Mona Kanaan

Professor in Applied Health Research & Statistics and Senior Fellow of HEA

Nicky Traynor

Programme Manager

Dr Mehreen Faisal

Mental Health Co-Lead; Research Capacity Strengthening Co-Lead; Research Associate

Professor Simon Gilbody

Professor of Psychological Medicine & Psychiatric Epidemiology

Professor Catherine Hewitt

Co-Director of York Trials Unit and Professor of Medical Statistics

Dr Saima Afaq

Co-Lead, Population Level research theme; Assistant Professor and PhD Coordinator

Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar

Professor Zia Ul Haq

Vice Chancellor and Professor of Public Health (KMU)

Dr Khalid Rehman

Lead Investigator (KMU); Assistant Professor (Institute of Public Health & Social Sciences); Diabetes Research Theme Co-Lead (Centre for IMPACT)

Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), Rawalpindi Medical University, Pakistan

Professor Asad Nizami

Lead, Centre for IMPACT Mental Health research theme; Director of IoP, Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi Medical University

Dr Faiza Aslam

Coordinator and Research Fellow

Maham Abid

Project Manager, PM+ Pakistan

Nida Afsheen

Trial & Data Manager, META-SMI

HealthNet TPO

Dr Abdul Rahman Shahab

Country Site Lead for Afghanistan, Deputy Country Director

Dr Sayed Murtaza S. Hofiani

Deputy Lead Afghanistan, Research Coordinator

Abdul Ahad Sultani

Mental Health PM+ Research Manager

Kabul University of Medical Sciences

Health Promotion Foundation (HPF)

Prof. Abdul Basit, M.B.B.S. (PAK), M.R.C.P. (UK), F.R.C.P. (Edinburgh, UK)

Director, Indus Diabetes and Endocrine Center (IDEC); Secretary-General, Diabetic Association of Pakistan (DAP); Vice Chairman, Health Promotion Foundation (HPF), and Health Research Advisory Board (HealthRAB); President, Diabetes in Asia Study Group (DASG)

Rubia Zafar

Diabetes Research Theme Co-Lead (Centre for IMPACT)

The Initiative, Pakistan

Dr Amina Khan

Executive Director, The Initiative; Public Health Consultant

Ali Kamran Baba

Deputy Lead, KEDI Working Group

University of Oxford

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

John Hiley

Research Management Advisor

Gregor Russell

Research & Development Director and Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist

Iftikhar Khan

Research Delivery Team Manager

Mark Dawson

Head of Research and Knowledge Services

University of Liverpool

Professor Atif Rahman

Lead, Mental Health research theme (PM+); Professor of Child Psychiatry & Global Mental Health

Dr Siham Sikander

Deputy Lead, Mental Health theme (PM+)

Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research

Professsor Marc Suhrcke

Co-lead, Population Level research theme; Professor Centre for Health Economics