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Aamir Khan

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Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • Epidemiologist

Organization

  • Indus Hospital
    Website: http://www.indushospital.org.pk/ Type: Medical Institution Country: Pakistan About: The Indus Hospital is a state of the art tertiary care center accessible to the public free of charge. A team of local and expatriate professionals provide specialized medical care with an emphasis on innovation and research. The tertiary care facilities at the Hospital are complemented by community outreach programs focused on prevention and early detection of disease, encouraging community involvement and ownership.
  • Interactive Research & Development - IRD
    Website: http://www.irdresearch.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: Pakistan About: IRD is a non-profit research and service organization committed to saving lives through improvements in global health. We seek to create opportunities for scientists and entrepreneurs that maximize the impact of health interventions in low-income communities. IRD has active collaborative research agreements with the Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Texas and The Indus Hospital. We have successfully partnered with Johns Hopkins University to bring grants to Pakistan from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation directly and through the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) and the Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH). Additional grants procured with other university partners include the British Department for International Development, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    Website: http://www.jhsph.edu/ Type: Academic Institution Country: United States About: The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is dedicated to the education of a diverse group of research scientists and public health professionals, a process inseparably linked to the discovery and application of new knowledge, and through these activities, to the improvement of health and prevention of disease and disability around the world.
  • SaafWater
    Website: http://www.saafwater.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1 Type: For-Profit Organization Country: Pakistan About: SaafWater’s mission is to provide affordable clean water to low-income communities in urban areas. Our goal is to create a profitable distribution network that can supply billions of people with clean water.

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  • English

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    Aamir Khan started a discussion "Your design & engineering course for airborne infection control" in the TB Infection Control community.

    Dear Dr. Nardell, I am writing to express our deep gratitude for your support to our MDR-TB control efforts in Pakistan. You will be pleased to know that the 2008 summer course (Building Design and Engineering Approaches to Airborne Infection Control) attended by Tariq Qaiser and Zafar Zaidi from our hospital has had two major positive impacts in Pakistan, which I describe below. Upon his return, Zafar convinced a city philanthropist to donate a new ...

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