Keynote speech at ICTD 2017
November 18, 2017: Dr. Sania Nishtar was the keynote speaker at the Information Technology for Development Conference in Lahore on November 18, 2017. Her talk was focused on the application of ICTD for improvinghealth outcomes and the manner in which ICT breakthroughs are creating new opportunities.Read More
World Diabetes Day
November 14, 2017: Read Dr. Sania Nishtar’sOped “Diabetes is a serious women’s issue” in Diabetes Voice on the occasion of World Diabetes Day
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World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council
November 12: The World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Future Councils—the world’s foremost interdisciplinary knowledge network dedicated to promoting innovative thinking on the future—met in Dubai on November 11-12, 2017. This initiative comprises 35 Councils, which focus on challenges that are global in nature. The uture of Health and Healthcare...
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keynote speech at the Harvard Symposium on women in the workforce
October 23, 2017: On Monday, October 23,2017, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Women and HealthInitiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, hosted a symposium on gender and the global health workforce to kick off the first-ever celebration of Harvard Worldwide Week in Boston. Dr. Sania...
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Dr. Sania Nishtar and President Tabaré Vázquez named NCD Commission co-chairs
October 20, 2017: President Dr. Tabaré Vázquez of Uruguay and Dr. Sania Nishtar have been named as co-chairs of the newly established WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs. Both the co-chairs met on the sidelines of the Global Conference on NCDs to discuss initial modalities of the commission.
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WHO Global Conference on NCDs in Uruguay
October 20, 2017: The WHO Global Conference on NCDs was recently held in Montevideo, Uruguay from 18-20 October 2017. The conference aimed to highlight the critical links between reducing premature deaths from noncommunicable diseases, promoting mental health and well-being and enhancing policy coherence across areas that impact the...
The National Academies Global Study on the Quality of Healthcare in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
October 18, 2017: In light of the call in the Sustainable Development Goals for achieving Universal Health Coverage, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has convened a Committee on Improving Global Quality of Healthcare. The committee will be co-chaired by Don Berwick, former United States Administrator of...
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Vision talk at Stanford Women Leaders Conference
October 12, 2017: The inaugural Women Leaders in Global Health conference was held at Stanford University on Oct. 12. The conference was attended by over 400 women and men - representing more than 250 organizations and from 68 countries - and watched live by another 400 viewers joining in from...
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keynote speech at the Harvard Symposium on women in the workforce
October 23, 2017: On Monday, October 23,2017, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Women and HealthInitiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, hosted a symposium on gender and the global health workforce to kick off the first-ever celebration of Harvard Worldwide Week in Boston. Dr. Sania...
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Dr. Sania Nishtar and President Tabaré Vázquez named NCD Commission co-chairs
October 20, 2017: President Dr. Tabaré Vázquez of Uruguay and Dr. Sania Nishtar have been named as co-chairs of the newly established WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs. Both the co-chairs met on the sidelines of the Global Conference on NCDs to discuss initial modalities of the commission.
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WHO Global Conference on NCDs in Uruguay
October 20, 2017: The WHO Global Conference on NCDs was recently held in Montevideo, Uruguay from 18-20 October 2017. The conference aimed to highlight the critical links between reducing premature deaths from noncommunicable diseases, promoting mental health and well-being and enhancing policy coherence across areas that impact the governance, prevention,...
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