January 29, 2011: Pakistan has launched an emergency plan to step-up efforts towards polio eradication after acknowledging that the country now runs the risk of becoming the last remaining reservoir of endemic poliovirus transmission in the world. This comment explores the nature of systemic constraints, which stand in the way...

January 27, 2011: Sania Nishtar attends the planning meeting of the First Global Ministerial Conference on Health Lifestyles and NCD Control, which is to be held in Moscow in April later this year, as a member of the International Steering Committee. The planning meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland on...

January 25, 2011: The Proof-of-Concept paper for Heartfile’s Health Financing project has been published as one of the background papers to WHO’s World Health Report 2010: “Health systems financing, the path to universal coverage”. The paper can be downloaded. Comments on the paper should be sent to  Read More

January 16, 2011: Sania Nishtar attends the Oxford University hosted Emerging Markets Symposium on Urbanization, health and human security as a expert panelist and speaker. The symposium focuses on challenges for the emerging market...

January 14, 2011: Compared to many other countries in Asia, the outbreak of Pandemic Influenza H1N1 2009 appeared to be of minor concern to Pakistan. Sania Nishtar analyzes the extent to which that notion was justified, the health system’s response to the outbreak and the capacity of the country to...