Published in The News International on May 29, 2010:"In order to judge the character of a nation, look no further than its health system." This yardstick doesn't project a positive image of Pakistan, with respect to all the three measures of the performance assessment of the health system--equity in...
Published in The News International on May 22, 2010:Ever since the enactment of major health reforms in the United States, global interest in the subject has burgeoned. For Pakistan, health reform should be an imperative for reasons that have been glaringly apparent. Cases of alleged malpractice by the private sector...
May 14, 2010: Sania Nishtar gives a talk on ‘Achieving universal health coverage: experiences of Pakistan’ at the Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. This is part of the Rockefeller Foundation global initiative on attaining universal...
May 14, 2010: Sania Nishtar has authored a chapter on ‘Pakistan: potential to achieve universal coverage for health’ in a book edited by Eduardo Missoni of the Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. The book is titled ‘Attaining Universal Health Coverage – a research initiative to support evidence-based advocacy and policy-making’ and...
May 13, 2010: Sania Nishtar makes a presentation to the WHO Executive Board committee on the report of the Expert Working Group on R&D and Financing in Geneva, Switzerland.
May 08, 2010: A viewpoint titled ‘The penchant for provinces’ by Sania Nishtar has been published in The News International. Full text is accessible at Viewpoints
Context: The renaming of a province in Pakistan has lent impetus to calls for creation of other provinces by various ethnic groups....
Published in The News International on May 08, 2010:
Calls to create more provinces in Pakistan have intensified ever since NWFP was renamed Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. People of district Hazara are out on the streets with their demand for Hazara province. A motion was moved in the Senate during the 18th Amendment session...
The Rockefellar foundation donates to Heartfile Health Financing, an mhealth enabled access to treatment initiative established by Heartfile. The donation will be used to treat poor patients at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad,...
May 6, 2010: Review of ‘Choked Pipes’ by Shafqat Shahzad entitled ‘Transforming healthcare’ was published in The Friday Times, April 30-May 6, 2010. The author focused the discussion on the recommendations for reform. Full text is Read More
May 5, 2010: Following the Karachi launch of ‘Choked Pipes,’ a technical seminar was held at the Ziauddin University, Karachi. The seminar was hosted by Professor Naeem Jaffery and was attended by a large number of academics. Sania Nishtar gave a talk on the book and interacted with the...
