Dr. Sania Nishtar attended the WHO EMRO consultative follow up meeting to the UN high level summit on NCDs as the invited expert from Pakistan. The meeting (held in Dubai from 11-13 December 2011) was on "Building Regional NCD Research Agenda and Enhancing Implementation of NCD Action Plan" and concluded with a set of research priorities and was well attended by researchers and policy makers from all over the WHO EMRO region: December 19, 2011.

University of Hong Kong in collaboration with Elsevier, hosted the Health System Reform in Asia Conference 2011 on Dec 9-12 in Hong Kong. Dr. Sania Nishtar's plenary talk at the conference, relayed via a video link can now be accessed here: December 12, 2011.

Dr. Sania Nishtar sat on the panel of one of the plenary sessions of the Global Chapters of Partners for a New Beginning meetings in Turkey on December 2 where she shared Heartfile’s approach to partnership building with the panel and the audience: December 9, 2011.

Read her recent comment on the Polio situation in Pakistan in the Huffington Post: November 5, 2011.

This month's issue of Asian Scientist magazine carries an interview of Dr. Sania Nishtar about the new Sania Nishtar Health Fund and what inspired her to start Heartfile Health Financing. To read the interview please click here: November 01, 2011.

Sania Nishtar's recent paper "Heartfile Health Financing: Striving to achieve Health Equity in Pakistan," has just been published on a World Health Organization hosted website for the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health. The conference commences on October 19, 2011, where she is also scheduled to speak on a ministerial panel. The paper is part of a series of case studies that present successful examples of policy action aiming to reduce health inequities. The paper can be downloaded here and background details can be accessed here: October 27, 2011.

Sania Nishtar was a Panelist on a ministerial panel in Rio, Brazil at the World Conference on the Social Determinants of Health, on October 20, 2011. The panel focused on "Ensuing Equitable Universal Coverage". Panelists included Simon Burns, Minister of State for Health, United Kingdom; Alexandre Padilha, Minister of Health Brazil; Dr Jeanette Vega, Ex Minister of Health, Chile, Margaret Chan, Director General, WHO and Sania Nishtar. The webcast of the session will shortly be available through this portal: October 26, 2011.

At the recent, meeting of the World Economic Forum in Abu Dhabi, the Global Agenda Council on Health and Well-being 2011, which is one of the World Economic Forum's 79 Councils, focused on making a case for positioning health and wellness, as the potential fourth bottom line of businesses. The understanding is that performance, social responsibility and commitment to environmental protection are the existing three. Sania Nishtar is a member of the council and attended the meeting: October, 18, 2011.

Sania Nishtar's recent paper co-authored with Eva Jane Lopez of the World Economic Forum outlines the imperative for creating an apex global coordinating mechanism for non-communicable diseases. This is the first publication after the release of the high level political declaration on NCDs, which reinforces one of the declaration's key recommendations centered on furthering international collaboration on NCD. The paper can be downloaded her: October 05, 2011:

Sania Nishtar attended the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative, where Heartfile's Commitment was selected from a larger pool of member commitments as an exemplary approach to addressing challenges in global health: September 22, 2011

The Sania Nishtar Fund was launched at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York on September 20, 2011: September 20, 2011
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September 2011: Judith Rodin Honors Sania Nishtar at the launch of the Women in the World Foundation in New York: September, 2011
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A special issue of 'The Journal of Health Communication' was launched at a side event to the UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases in New York on September 19. Both guest editors, Peter Anderson and Dr. Sania Nishtar, are members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council (GAC) on Chronic Disease and Wellness where the idea for this special supplement was conceived:
September 19, 2011
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Sania Nishtar was a plenary speaker at the World Ageing and Generations Congress 2011 at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland: August 30, 2011

Sania Nishtar receives the Global Innovation Award in New York on July 27 for her contributions in Global Health: July 27, 2011
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