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Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is the Distinguished University Professor and Founding Director of the Institute for Global Health and Development and the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, at the Aga Khan University. He also holds the Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health, unique joint appointments. He is also the Lawson Centre Distinguished Fellow in Climate Change, Food Systems and Child and Adolescent Nutrition at the University of Toronto and holds adjunct professorships at several leading Universities globally including the Schools of Public Health at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), George Washington University (DC), Boston University School of Public Health, Karolinksa Institute (Sweden) as well as the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.  He is a designated Distinguished National Professor of the Government of Pakistan and was the Founding Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee of the Government of Pakistan from 2003-2014. Dr. Bhutta was a member of the Independent Expert Review Group (iERG) appointed by the UN Secretary General for monitoring global progress in maternal and child health MDGs (2011-2015). He represented the global academic and research organizations on the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (Gavi) Board and serves on the Global Vaccine Equity Reference Group (ERG). Dr. Bhutta was the co-Chair of the Global Countdown for 2015 and 2030 Initiatives from 2006-2017, co-Chair of the Maternal and Child Health oversight committee of World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) and a technical member of the high-level UN Health and Human Rights committee. He has served as the co-Chair of Knowledge and Science committee of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) and a member of the Independent Expert Group producing the Global Nutrition Reports since its inception in 2014 to 2021. Dr Bhutta was a member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Committee for Vaccines (SAGE) from 2010-15 and the Advisory Committee for Health Research of the WHO EMRO. Dr Bhutta was a member of the Health Task Force for the Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018-2022), the Chair of the Board of Governors of the National Institutes of Health, Pakistan (2021-2024) and the Health & Population Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Health, Government of Pakistan.

Professor Bhutta was educated at the University of Peshawar (MBBS) and obtained his PhD from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh & London), the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (London), American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. Dr. Bhutta has served as a member of the Global Advisory Committee for Health Research for the World Health Organization, the Board of Child & Health and Nutrition Initiative of Global Forum for Health Research, and the steering committees of the International Zinc and Vitamin A Nutrition Consultative Groups. He was a founding Board member of the PMNCH and a board member of the International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research (2011-2017). As a past-President of the Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (CAPGAN) and the Federation of Asia-Oceania Perinatal Societies (FAOPS) and the International Pediatrics Association (IPA), he has been a leading voice for health professionals supporting integrated maternal, newborn and child health globally.  
Dr. Bhutta has served on several international editorial advisory boards including the Lancet, BMJ, PLoS Medicine, PLoS ONE, PloS NTD, BMC Public Health, Population Health Metrics and the Cochrane CDPLG and ARI groups. He has published ten books, 150 book chapters, and over 1350 indexed publications to date, including > 250 in the world’s leading journal Lancet alone. He is one of the most highly cited academics in global health (H index 223, i10 index 1126, >365,000 citations) and has been ranked among the top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers globally by the Web of Science consecutively since 2013. He has been a leading member of recent major Lancet series on Child Survival (2003), Newborn Survival (2005 & 2014), Undernutrition (2008, 2013 and 2021), Primary Care (2008) Stillbirths (2011 & 2016), Pakistan (2013), series on Childhood Diarrhea and Pneumonia (2013), Early Child Development (2016) and Lancet Commissions on Education for Health Professionals for the 21st century (2010), Women & Health (2015), Indigenous Health (2016) and Adolescent Health (2016). He led the BRANCH Consortium of leading Universities between 2016 & 2020 and produced the definitive evidence base for actions to improve women and children’s health in conflict settings (Lancet & BMJ 2021). He led the recent Lancet series on optimizing child and adolescent health (2022) which provided a blueprint for post COVID-19 recovery for children globally.

He has received several awards over the years, including the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Medal of Excellence) by the President of Pakistan for contributions towards education and research (2000),). He is the first dual recipient of the Aga Khan University Distinguished Faculty Award for Research (2005) and AKU Award of Distinction (2012) and was made a Distinguished University Professor in 2019. Dr Bhutta was awarded the inaugural Programme for Global Pediatric Research Award for Outstanding Contributions to Global Child Health (2009) and the Kenneth Warren prize by the Cochrane collaboration in 2011. Dr. Bhutta was recognized with the Global Advocacy Prize by the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health in 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Sam Fomon Award for lifetime contributions to Nutrition Research (2014), the WHO Ihsan Dogramaci Family Health award (2014), the inaugural TUBA Academy of Sciences Award for global contributions to Health and Life Sciences (2015), University of Toledo Medical Missions Hall of Fame Award (2016), the McKinsey Geneva Forum for Health award for contributions to maternal and child health globally (2016) and awarded an honorary Fellowship for global contributions by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and UK in 2019 & 2020 respectively & the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health in 2021.  In 2016 Dr. Bhutta was recognized with the President of Pakistan Pride of Performance Award for contributions towards Education and Health and the World Academy of Sciences (Trieste) awarded him the TWAS Prize in Medical Sciences. He was also recognized by the Senate of Canada with its Canada 150 Medal for contributions to Global Child Health and given the BMJ Award for Outstanding contributions to South Asia. Dr Bhutta was admitted to the National Academy of Medicine in October 2018, the highest academic platform in North America and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the oldest global science Academy in 2020. He was awarded the Roux Prize 2021 for his work on evidence-based public health impact and is the recipient of the 2022 John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health award. He was also awarded the Suskind Lifetime Achievement Award in International Nutrition by the American Society for Nutrition in 2022 as well as the prestigious 2023 Henry Friesen prize for International Health. In 2023 Dr Bhutta was also awarded one of the highest national civil awards, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan and appointed as an officer of the Order of Canada in 2024.
 
Dr. Bhutta’s research interests include newborn and child survival, maternal and child undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, especially covering the first thousand days. He leads large research groups based in Canada, Pakistan & Central Asia with a special interest in research synthesis, scaling up evidence-based interventions in community settings and implementation research in fragile health systems. His work with community health workers and outreach services has influenced integrated maternal and newborn outreach programs for marginalized populations all over the world. His group’s work with the WHO and PMNCH in developing consensus based essential interventions for women, children and adolescents is the dominant set of agreed interventions guiding global policy. Presently Professor Bhutta is leading three global academic consortia; one working on integrated investments to improve child and adolescent health and nutrition across the sustainable development goals, an academic working group on addressing women and children’s health in humanitarian and conflict settings and a multi-disciplinary work to help find strategies to address the challenges of climate change and health for women and children in populations at-risk in South Asia & East Africa.