DELIVERING WELFARE AT SCALE.
ISBN:
978-969-716-287-1
hardback
674
Published:
2024
₨ 5,000
Description
DELIVERING WELFARE AT SCALE.
EHSAAS 2027
Dr Sania Nishtar
Senator Dr Sania Nishtar is a member of the Senate (upper house of Parliament) of Pakistan. From November 2018 to May 2022, she served as Special Assistant of the Prime Minister of Pakistan and Federal Minister, where she held the Cabinet portfolio of Poverty Alleviation; in that role she founded and was responsible for implementing Ehsaas, the largest social protection program in the country’s history, which reached out to 15 million households and was widely acclaimed internationally. She was also the Chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Program during that time.Dr Nishtar is former Chair of several multilateral initiatives: WHO’s High-Level Commission on Non-communicable diseases; WEF’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Healthcare; U.S National Academy of Sciences Global Study on the Quality of Healthcare in LMICS; UN International Institute for Global Health’sAdvisory Committee; UN Secretary General’s Independent Accountability Panel for Women’s and Children’s Health and WHO’s Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity. In 2017, she was Pakistan’s nominee for Director-General of the World Health Organisation and was in the final shortlist of three. She currently chairs and is a member of several Lancet Commissions.
About The Author
Dr Sania Nishtar is founder of the NGO Heartfile and has received many international awards for her work and is widely published. Sania Nishtar graduated as the best graduate in 1986. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and took a Ph.D at King’s College, London. Her Alma mater, King’s College, London, honoured her with a Doctorate in Science, Honoris Causa in 2019. She is listed amongst the notable alumni of King’s College. In 2020, she was listed amongst BBC’s 100 most influential women
