June 29, 2011: The World Bank south Asian HNP multi-sectoral Decentralization Study Group hosted a lunch presentation at the World Bank in Washington on June 15, 2011. Our President Dr. Sania Nishtar presented our recent analysis related to the captioned subject with Pakistan as a setting. Julie Mclaughlin chaired the...

June 27, 2011: The establishment of a Drug Regulatory Authority is once again on Pakistan’s policy agenda. In principle a step in the right direction, Heartfile examines its implications and suggests some practical recommendations in its recent analysis. View PDF...

June 22, 2011: The Lancet NCD Action Group’s recent paper “UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases” answers four key questions, which need to be addressed if the UN High-Level meeting on NCDs in September, an opportunity to incite a coordinated global effort against NCDs, is to live up to its potential. Led by...

June 21, 2011: During the recent UN General Assembly Civil society hearing on NCDs, which was held in the run up to the September NCDs summit, Dr. Sania Nishtar led one of the three roundtables and spoke about the need to enhance global cooperation, outlining the stakeholders, mechanisms and modalities....

June 9, 2011: The captioned report by the Asia Society Pakistan 2020 Study Group, whose members include a mix of individuals, all of whom are leaders in their own separate fields, is now available for download. The report, written by project director, Hassan Abbas, has insights and intellectual...

June 06, 2011: Through Heartfile Health Financing, we make assistance available to the poor who cannot afford to pay for healthcare and run the risk of spending catastrophically. Most of the patients we support are the poorest of the poor and we are often confronted with situations where patients...