Global Health Department opens at HSA

Islamabad :Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Health Dr. Zafar Mirza inaugurated the Global Health Department at the Health Services Academy (HSA) here Wednesday during the 10th annual public health conference.

The Department has been established in collaboration with the University of Manitoba, Canada. The ceremony was attended by Dr. James Blanchard, Professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences, Dr. Faran Emmanuel, Dr. Maryanne Crockett and Dr. Tahira Ezra Reza from the University of Manitoba, Canada.

“Through this Department, Pakistan enters the realm of global health research and practice. The Department will harmonize the work of our global partners working in Pakistan, it will support the Ministry of National Health Services in preparations for various global health fora like the World Health Assembly and other similar prestigious global health events, and it will become the hub for multi-country international collaborative research and capacity building,” Dr. Zafar stated on the occasion.

The Department envisions to foster partnership between the Centre for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Centre for Global Public Health-Pakistan, Health Services Academy and its departments, the Health and Population Think Tank, Health Policy Unit at the Ministry of National Health Services and multiple other international partners and universities towards building a collaborative platform to launch global health programmes and projects in Pakistan.