Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

Husein Laljee Dewraj Professor and Head

Division of Maternal and Child Health

Aga Khan University Medical Center

Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is Husein Laljee Dewraj Professor and Head of the newly created Division of Maternal and Child Health at the Aga Khan University Medical Center in Karachi, Pakistan. He also holds adjunct professorships in International Health & Family and Community Medicine within the departments of International Health at Boston University and Tufts University (Boston). He was designated a Distinguished National Professor by the Government of Pakistan in 2007.

Professor Bhutta has been associated with the Aga Khan University since 1986 and heads a large research team working on issues of maternal, newborn and child survival and nutrition globally and regionally. Dr Bhutta has served as a member of the Global Advisory Committee for Health Research for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Board of Child & Health and Nutrition Initiative of the Global Forum for Health Research. He is an Executive Committee Member and Treasurer of the International Pediatric Association and on the Board of the Global Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH). Dr. Bhutta is currently the Chair of the Health Sciences Group of the Biotechnology Commission of Pakistan, a member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Committee for Vaccines, the Advisory Committee for Health Research of WHO EMRO, and its apex Regional Consultative Committee. He is also the Chairman of the National Research Ethics Committee of the Government of Pakistan.

Dr. Bhutta serves on several international editorial advisory boards, including the Lancet, BMJ, PLoS Medicine and PLoS ONE, and has published four books, 51 book chapters, and over 350 indexed publications to date. 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), the Outstanding Pediatrician of Asia award (2007), as well as the inaugural award of the Program for Global Pediatric Research for outstanding contributions to Global Child Health and Research (2009).