Professor & Associate Director
Aga Khan University
Dr. Sajid Bashir Soofi, is the Professor at the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and Associate Director at Centre of Excellence in Women & Child Health, Aga Khan University. He is a clinician researcher and a public health scientist with vast experience of community-based trial & large-scale evaluation surveys. He has been awarded the prestigious International Health Research Award by the American Academic of Pediatrics in 2010. He is also the recipient of the prestigious scientific award of CDC - the Charles C. Shepard Science Award by Centre for Disease Control CDC. His research areas include maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health with an emphasis on nutrition and infectious diseases. The key areas that Dr. Soofi worked over the last decade have been predominantly interventional trials focusing on neonatal child health and malnutrition, the majority being cluster randomized trial. The evidence congregated through these trials has played an instrumental role in guiding policy and programs related to newborn, child health and malnutrition, including the evaluation of health interventions at local and regional level.
Dr. Soofi academic bibliography comprises over 120 publications, book chapters, reviews and commentaries. He has published in several high-impact international journals, including Lancet, BMC Research, Journal of Infection and Public Health and Vaccine. He was co-investigators of National Nutrition Surveys, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Pakistan (2011 & 2018). He supported National and Provincial Polio programs of Pakistan and Afghanistan in generating evidence on polio sero protection level of children to improve program operational strategies for eradication of polio
Thursday, November 12, 2020
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM EST
