I trained in medicine at the Aga Khan University, in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a Fulbright scholar and in corporate management at the Institute of Business Management, Karachi. I am currently a Commonwealth Doctoral Scholar at the Institute for Global Health and the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL. I have decade of experience of working in the development sector in a mix of strategy, operations management and technical roles. This has included developing and managing innovative, large-scale public health programs, notably establishing social-enterprises in Pakistan & the Philippines, implementing X-ray based mass-screening for TB and evaluating digital tools for disease surveillance. I have worked closely with a number of development agencies including the Global Fund, USAID, Stop TB Partnership and the World Diabetes Foundation.