Zulfiqar Bhutta

Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is a Pakistani physician who currently works as a Professor at the Department of Nutritional Sciences and the Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto.[1][2] He also holds concurrent professorship at the Department of Paediatrics, Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan[3] and at the Schools of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, Tufts University, Boston University, University of Alberta and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.[4][5][6][7]

Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
CitizenshipPakistan
OccupationProfessor
AwardsPride of Performance
TWAS Prize
Academic background
Alma materKhyber Medical College, Peshawar
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
Academic work
DisciplinePediatrics and nutritional sciences

Early life and education

Bhutta received his MBBS from Khyber Medical College in Peshawar, Pakistan in 1977 and his PhD from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996.[3]

Career

Bhutta is the co-director of the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto,[8][9] and the founding director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at the Aga Khan University.[3][4]

Bhutta was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2018,[10][11] and is also a Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, the Royal College of Physicians of the UK, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.[3] He has also served as former Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee of Pakistan between 2003 and 2014, and as a member of the Independent Expert Review Group appointed by the UN Secretary-General to review progress in maternal and child health of the Millennium Development Goals between 2011 and 2015.[4]

Since 2019, Bhutta has been a member of the Lancet–SIGHT Commission on Peaceful Societies Through Health and Gender Equality, chaired by Tarja Halonen.[12]

In 2020, he served on “A future for the world’s children?”, a WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission, co-chaired by Helen Clark and Awa Coll-Seck.[13]

Recognition

Bhutta was awarded the Pride of Performance civil decoration by President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain in 2016.[14][15][16]

Bhutta was a recipient of the TWAS Prize in 2016.[17]

References
  1. "Zulfiqar Bhutta - Joannah and Brain Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition". University of Toronto. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  2. "Zulfiqar Bhutta - Dalla Lana School of Public Health". University of Toronto. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  3. "Faculty Profile - Zulfiqar Bhutta". Aga Khan University. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  4. "Our People - Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health". Aga Khan University. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  5. "Zulfiqar Bhutta - Faculty Directory - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health". Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  6. "Faculty - Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta". Tufts University. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  7. "Zulfiqar Bhutta - SPH". Boston University. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  8. "Zulfiqar A. Bhutta". Hospital for Sick Children. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  9. "Newborn medicine trailblazer to work at Toronto's Sick Kids". The Star. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  10. "National Academy of Medicine Elects 85 New Members". National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  11. "Prof Zulfiqar Bhutta elected to U.S. National Academy of Medicine". Aga Khan University. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  12. Commissioners Lancet–SIGHT Commission on Peaceful Societies Through Health and Gender Equality.
  13. World Health Organization, press release of February 19, 2020.
  14. "President awards civil decorations". President of Pakistan. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  15. "President of Pakistan honours Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta". Aga Khan University. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  16. "President confers civil awards on 109 Pakistanis, 23 foreigners". Dawn. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  17. "Winners of 2016 TWAS Prizes announced". TWAS.
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