Dr. Sania Nishtar appointed as a Federal Minister of the Government of Pakistan. Her portfolios are Science and Technology, Information Technology, Professional Education and Training. Sania Nishtar graduated from Khyber Medical College, Peshawar in 1986 as the best graduate with 16 gold medals, a college record, which remains unbroken to date. In 1999 she left [...]
Health Experts, politicians, policy makers and donors have unanimously agreed that maternal, newborn, child health (MNCH) and nutrition should be a national priority. The group strongly agreed that political parties should include it in their manifestoes and also advocate at their respective regional and national forums. They were speaking at a Seminar on reproductive, maternal, [...]
The Rockefeller Foundation has honoured Dr. Sania Nishtar, Founder and President of the think tank NGO ‘Heartfile’ and renowned leader in health policy in Pakistan, with an Innovation Award for her contributions in the realm of global health. Dr. Sania received the Global Innovators Award at the launch of the First Annual ‘Innovation Forum’ organized [...]
Heartfile participate International AIDS Society Conference Pre – Meeting held on August 9, 2011 in Rome. It was hosted by Wafaa El-Sadr, Rifat Atun and Jean Paul Moatti. The meeting was chaired and moderated by President Heartfile, Dr. Sania Nishtar. The panelists included Ambassador Eric Goosby (United States Global AIDS Coordinator), Bart Janssen [...]
Saeed Allawala, Managing Director, ATCO Laboratories, organized a meeting for a policy dialogue on “Pakistan Health Sector and the 18th Amendment – What future holds” recently at a local hotel in Karachi. Dr. Sania Nishter President Heartfile was the guest speaker. Chairmen and representatives from national and multinational pharmaceuticals companies attended the meeting. Speaking as [...]
