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Peer reviewed publications
Peter Gluckman P, Nishtar S. Armstrong T. Ending childhood obesity: a multidimensional challenge. The Lancet 2015. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60509-8
Gutierrez H, Shewade A, Dai M, Mendoza-Arana P, Gomez-Dantes O, Jain N, Khonelidze I, Nabyonga-Orem J, Saleh K, Teerawattananon Y, Nishtar S, Hornberger J> Health Care Coverage Decision Making in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Experiences from 25 Coverage Schemes. Popul Health Manag. 2014 Nov 13. 25393442
Nishtar S. Reflections from my tenure as minister. Lancet 2014 Sep 3. pii: S0140-6736(14)61284-8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61284-8. [Epub ahead of print]
Russell E, Swanson RC, Atun R, Nishtar S, Chunharas S. Systems thinking for the post-2015 agenda. Lancet. 2014 Jun 21;383(9935):2124-5. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61028-X.
Nishtar S. Health in the post-2015 agenda: three considerations in moving forward. Nishtar S. East Mediterr Health J. 2014 Mar 13;20(2):71-2.
Nishtar S and Ralston J. Can human resources for health in the context of non-communicable disease control be a lever for health system changes? Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2013 November; 91(11):895-896. doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.118711.
Bhutta ZA, Nishtar S. Health and research in Pakistan – Authors’ reply. Lancet 2013; 382(9900):1246
Nishtar S, Bhutta ZA, Jafar TH, et al. Health reform in Pakistan: a call to action. Lancet. 2013 May 16. doi:pii: S0140-6736(13)60813-2. 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60813-2.
Nishtar S, Boerma T, Amjad S, et al. Pakistan’s health system: performance and prospects after the 18th Constitutional Amendment. Lancet 2013 May 16. doi:pii: S0140-6736(13)60019-7. 10.1016/S0140-6736(13 )60019-7.
Ahmed QA, Nishtar S, Memish ZA. Poliomyelitis in Pakistan: time for the Muslim world to step in. Lancet. 2013 May 4;381(9877):1521-3. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60764-3. Epub 2013 Apr 24.
Rifat Atun, Shabbar Jaffar, Sania Nishtar, Felicia M Knaul, Mauricio L Barreto, Moffat Nyirenda, Nicholas Banatvala, Peter Piot. Improving responsiveness of health systems to non-communicable diseases. The Lancet, 12 February 2013: doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60063-X
Attaran A, Barry D, Basheer S, Bate R, Benton D, Chauvin J, Garrett L, Kickbusch I, Kohler JC, Midha K, Newton PN, Nishtar S, Orhii P, McKee M. How to achieve international action on falsified and substandard medicines. BMJ. 2012 Nov 13;345:e7381. doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7381
Nishtar S. Pakistan’s deadly cocktail of substandard drugs. The Lancet – 5 March 2012. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60277-3
Nishtar S, Khalid F, Batool N, et al. Heartfile Health Financing: striving to Achieve Health Equity in Pakistan.
Rabkin M. Nishtar S. Scaling Up Chronic Care Systems: Leveraging HIV Programs to Support Non-communicable Disease Services. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2011;57(2):87-90.
Nishtar S, Mehboob AB. Pakistan prepares to abolish Ministry of Health. The Lancet May 4, 2011
Nishtar S. The Challenges of Scaling up. Lancet 2011;377:986.
Nishtar S. H1N1 crisis in Pakistan—lessons learnt. NTS Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 4, 2011. Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, Singapore.
Nishtar S, Khalid F, Ikram A, et al. Protecting the poor against health impoverishment in Pakistan: proof of concept of the potential within innovative web and mobile phone technologies. Background Paper to the World Health Report, 2010, Health Systems Financing (World Health Organization)
Samb B, Desai N, Nishtar S, Mendis S, Bekedam H, Wright A, et.al. Prevention and management of chronic disease: a litmus test for health-systems strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries. The Lancet 2010;376(9754): 1785-97.
F. Sabih, K. M. Bile, W. Buehler, A. Hafeez, S. Nishtar, S. Siddiqi Implementing the district health system in the framework of primary health care in Pakistan: can the evolving reforms enhance the pace towards the Millennium Development Goals? Eastern Med health journal Volume 16 (September) Supplement, 2010.
A.Y. Alam, S. Nishtar, S. Amjad, K.M. Bile Impact of wealth status on health outcomes in Pakistan. Eastern Med health journal Volume 16 (September) Supplement, 2010.
Nishtar S. Corruption in health systems — Lancet 2010; 376(9744):874.
Nishtar S, Bile KM. The public-private niche in health — opportunities for the Friends of Democratic Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc 2010; 60(5):333-4.
Nishtar S. Scaling up Financing for Health. Lancet 2010;375:983
Nishtar S. Choked Pipes — Reforming Pakistan’s Mixed Health System (invited editorial). J Pak Med Assoc 2010;60(4):252-3
Nishtar S. Mixed Health Systems Syndrome. Bull World Health Organ 2010;88:74-75. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.067868
Nishtar S. Pakistan, Politics and Polio. Bull World Health Organ 2010. 10.2471/ BLT.09.066480
Nishtar S. Amjad S. Synergizing health and population in Pakistan. J Pak Med Asoc 2009;Suppl3:S3-20
Nishtar S. Amjad S. Pakistan’s Health Population Mantra. J Pak Med Asoc 2009;Suppl3:S1-2
Atun R, Dybul M, Evans T, Kim JY, Moatti JP, Nishtar S, Russell A. Venice Statement on global health initiatives and health systems. Lancet 2009; 374(9692): 783-4
Lagomarsino G, de Ferranti D, Pablos-Mendez A, Nachuk S, Nishtar S, Wibulpolprasert S. Public stewardship of mixed health systems. Lancet 2009 Nov 7;374(9701): 1577-8
World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies Collaborative Group, Samb B, Evans T, Dybul M, Atun R, Moatti JP, Nishtar S, Wright A, Celletti F, Hsu J, Kim JY, Brugha R, Russell A, Etienne C. An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems. Lancet 2009;20(373):2137-69
Nishtar S. How important are health systems in the prevention of cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases? Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2009;6(3):170-1
Nishtar S. Pablos-Mendez A. The Global Financial downturn—imperatives for the health sector. Lancet 2009;373:124.
Evans T, Nishtar S, Atun R, Etienne C. Scaling up research and learning for health systems: time to act. Lancet 2008;372(9649):1529-31.
Siddiqui S, Masud TI, Nishtar S, Peters DH, Sabri B, Bile KM, Jama MA. Framework for assessing governance of the health system in developing countries: Gateway to good governance. Health Policy 2008 [Epub ahead of print]
Rizvi N, Nishtar S. Pakistan’s health policy: appropriateness and relevance to women’s health needs. Health Policy. 2008 May 12. [Epub ahead of print]
Nishtar S. Politics of health systems: WHO’s new frontier. Lancet. 2007 Sep 15;370(9591):935-6.
Nishtar S. The WHO Director General election finale. Lancet 2007;369(9557):185
Nishtar S. Community health promotion–a step further. Promot Educ. 2007;14(2):61-2, 109-10, 124-5.
Ronis KA, Nishtar S. Community health promotion in Pakistan: a policy development perspective. Promot Educ. 2007;14(2):98-9.
Nishtar S. Health reforms in Pakistan–configuring health beyond
the health sector. J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Dec;56(12 Suppl 4):S120-35.
Nishtar S. Evidence from research and its implications for health reforms in Pakistan: the Gateway Paper perspective. J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Dec;56(12 Suppl 4):S112-9.
Nishtar S. Pharmaceuticals–strategic considerations in health reforms in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Dec;56(12 Suppl 4):S100-11.
Nishtar S. Human resource solutions–the Gateway Paper proposed health reforms in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Dec;56(12 Suppl 4):S94-9.
Nishtar S. The Gateway Paper–proposed health reforms in Pakistan–interface considerations. J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Dec;56(12 Suppl 4):S78-93.
Nishtar S. The Gateway Paper–health service delivery outside of the public sector in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Dec;56(12 Suppl 4):S66-77.
Nishtar S. The Gateway Paper–preventive and promotive programs in Pakistan and health reforms in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Dec;56(12 Suppl 4):S51-65.
Nishtar S. The Gateway Paper–public sector service delivery infrastructure and health reforms in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Dec;56(12 Suppl 4):S43-50.
Nishtar S. The Gateway Paper–financing health in Pakistan and its linkage with health reforms. J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Dec;56(12 Suppl 4):S25-42.
Nishtar S. The Gateway Paper–stewardship and governance in the health sector in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Dec;56(12 Suppl 4):S14-24.
Nishtar S. The Gateway Paper–context and configuration of the proposed health reforms in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Dec;56(12 Suppl 4):S2-13.
Nishtar S, Perry M, Lammare MC, Ritchie J. Global Consortium on Community Health Promotion. Promotion and Education 2006;XIII(1):7-8.
Books and book chapters
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Nishtar S. Pakistan: potential to achieve universal coverage for health. Attaining Universal Health Coverage – A research initiative to support evidence-based advocacy and policy-making. EGEA 2010. \
Nishtar S. Choked Pipes: Reforming Pakistan’s Health System. Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-19-547969-0
Nishtar S. Health Indicators of Pakistan. Gateway Paper II. Heartfile, Pakistan’s Health Policy Forum, Federal Bureau of Statistics and Ministry of Health; 2006
Nishtar S. The Gateway Paper: Reforming Health Systems in Pakistan – a Strategic View. Heartfile and Pakistan’s Health Policy Forum; 2005
Nishtar S. The National Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases and Health Promotion in Pakistan. Heartfile 2004
Nishtar S. Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in South Asia. Heartfile and SAARC Cardiac Society. ISBN 969-8651-00-4. Islamabad, Pakistan
Nishtar S. Public-Private Partnerships in the health sector – a call to action. The Commonwealth Health Ministers Book; 2007
Nishtar S. Health chapter. Vision 2030 of the Planning Commission of Pakistan
Nishtar S. Health section. National Commission for Government Reform. 2007

Op-ed columns

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Pakistan and polio, The News International; Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Drug regulation and beyond, The News International; Saturday, June 25, 2011
Non-communicable diseases: evidence-policy disconnect, The News International; Saturday, February 12, 2011
Operation polio, The News International; Saturday, January 29, 2011
Dengue: fears & imperatives, The News International; Saturday, November 07, 2010
Population denominator, The News International; Saturday, July 10, 2010
The budget’s ‘social footprint’, The News International; Saturday, July 3, 2010
The problem with BISP health insurance, The News International; Saturday, June 19, 2010
Politics of health reform – Part 3, The News International; Monday, June 7, 2010
Politics of health reform – Part 2, The News International; Saturday, May 29, 2010
Politics of health reform – Part 1, The News International; Saturday, May 22, 2010
The healthcare bill 2009, The News International; Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Budget 2009-10 and the health sector, The News International; Monday, July 06, 2009
Financial crisis, social unrest and reform, The News International; Monday, January 05, 2009
Global crises—imperatives for a just social order, The News International; Sunday, December 14, 2008
A new war – against polio, The News International; Thursday, October 23, 2008
National trade policy 2008/09 – the trade-health interface, The News International; Saturday, August 09, 2008
Health Policy – chinks in the armor, The News International; Monday, July 14, 2008
Financing health insurance, The News International; Saturday, June 28, 2008
Budget – five points under the health lens, The News International; Saturday, June 21, 2008
Disease Diplomacy, The News International; Sunday, July 01, 2007
Health and the budget 2007 – How “healthy” is our budget? The News International; Sunday, June 10, 2007
What is the role of the state in health? The News International; Sunday, February 25, 2007
Social Policy Reform – raison d etre, The News International; Sunday, Jan-Feb 2007
A new paradigm for regulating drugs and pharmaceuticals, The News International; Sunday, January 07, 2007
Dengue and its likes – long term context, The News International; Sunday, November 05, 2006
Opening the insurance market – the health perspective, The News International; Sunday, October 01, 2006
“Playing” Social Protection with a new
stack of cards! Blue Chip; September 2006
Health in Executive Committee of the
National Economic Council (ECNEC), The News International; Sunday,
September 10, 2006
Tools for treatment – Scope for using
technology in reforming and improving the health sector is immense, The News International; Sunday, August 27, 2006
Rahim Yar Khan’ health initiative –
revisited, The News International; Sunday, August 06, 2006
‘Playing health’ with a new stack of
cards, The News International; Sunday, July 02, 2006
Budget 2006-07 – an ode to health, Blue
Chip; June 2006
The Health Budget 2006 – the policy
context, The News International; Sunday, June 04, 2006
Social Health Insurance in NWFP – the
steps ahead, The News International; Sunday, April 30, 2006
Primary safeguards, The News International;
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Civil Service Reforms – the move from
hype-to-hope, The News International; Sunday, April 09, 2006
The Gateway Paper – towards a health
systems reform, The News International; Sunday, March 19, 2006

Governance
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Peer reviewed publications

Gutierrez H, Shewade A, Dai M, Mendoza-Arana P, Gomez-Dantes O, Jain N, Khonelidze I, Nabyonga-Orem J, Saleh K, Teerawattananon Y, Nishtar S, Hornberger J> Health Care Coverage Decision Making in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Experiences from 25 Coverage Schemes. Popul Health Manag. 2014 Nov 13. 25393442
Nishtar S. Reflections from my tenure as minister. Lancet 2014 Sep 3. pii: S0140-6736(14)61284-8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61284-8. [Epub ahead of print]
Nishtar S. Health in the post-2015 agenda: three considerations in moving forward. Nishtar S. East Mediterr Health J. 2014 Mar 13;20(2):71-2.
Nishtar S, Bhutta ZA, Jafar TH, et al. Health reform in Pakistan: a call to action. Lancet. 2013 May 16. doi:pii: S0140-6736(13)60813-2. 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60813-2.
Nishtar S, Boerma T, Amjad S, et al. Pakistan’s health system: performance and prospects after the 18th Constitutional Amendment. Lancet 2013 May 16. doi:pii: S0140-6736(13)60019-7. 10.1016/S0140-6736(13 )60019-7.
Ahmed QA, Nishtar S, Memish ZA. Poliomyelitis in Pakistan: time for the Muslim world to step in. Lancet. 2013 May 4;381(9877):1521-3. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60764-3. Epub 2013 Apr 24.
Atun R, Jaffar S, Nishtar S, et al. Improving responsiveness of health systems to non-communicable diseases. Lancet. 2013 Feb 23;381(9867):690-7. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60063-X. Epub 2013 Feb 12.

Op-ed columns

Part-2: Devolving health, The News International; Saturday, September 03, 2011
Some misunderstood attributes, The News International; Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Part-1: Devolving health – a way forward, The News International; Saturday, July 23, 2011
Solutions from within, The News International; Saturday, May 28, 2011
Mandate to regulate, The News International; Saturday, April 30, 2011
Health and the 18th Amendment, The News International; Saturday, April 02, 2011
Doctors’ movement, The News International; Saturday, March 19, 2011
Operation polio, The News International; Saturday, January 29, 2011
Anti-corruption strategies, The News International; Saturday, January 15, 2011
Risks and resilience, The News International; Saturday, January 01, 2011
The vanishing ministry, The News International; Saturday, December 25, 2010
The FDP premise, The News International; Monday, November 22, 2010
The budget process, The News International; Saturday, October 23, 2010
The flood and disaster observatory, The News International; Saturday, October 02, 2010
Innovative flood-financing, The News International; Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Disaster governance, The News International; Saturday, September 04, 2010
Child protection legislation, The News International; Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Poverty and pragmatism, The News International; Saturday, July 24, 2010
The penchant for provinces, The News International; Saturday, May 08, 2010
Parliamentary empirics, The News International; Saturday, April 24, 2010
Sanitising the constitution, The News International; Friday, April 09, 2010
On national security policy, The News International; Saturday, April 03, 2010
National Health Policy 2010, The News International; Monday, March 22, 2010
The data-collection challenge, The News International; Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Women through the governance lens, The News International; Monday, March 08, 2010
Civil service reform revisited, The News International; Saturday, February 27, 2010
Separation of powers, The News International; Saturday, February 20, 2010
The taxonomy within FoDP, The News International; Saturday, February 13, 2010
A poor man’s woes, The News International; Saturday, February 6, 2010
2010 — grand challenges, The News International; Monday, January 11, 2010
Beyond the NFC Award, The News International; Thursday, December 31, 2009
Road to anti-corruption reform, The News International; Saturday, December 19, 2009
The federation and provincial autonomy, The News International; Saturday, December 12, 2009
Amending
Constitution, The News International; Saturday, November 28,
2009
The way
forward—post NRO, The News International; Saturday, November 7,
2009
Merging
ministries? The News International; Saturday, October 31, 2009
Aid
empirics, The News International; Thursday, October 22, 2009
Freedom of
information—oxygen of democracy, The News International; Monday,
October 12, 2009
Is aid the
answer? The News International; Monday, September 28, 2009
Constitutional amendments, The News International; Saturday,
September 19, 2009
Governance
− Through the sugar-crisis lens, The News International;
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Nuancing
national security, The News International; Saturday, August 22,
2009
Anti-corruption reform, The News International; Saturday, August
15, 2009
Devolution
reform, The News International; Saturday, August 08, 2009
Judicialisation of rights, The News International; Saturday,
July 25, 2009
The IDP-governance
link, The News International; Thursday, July 16, 2009
Equity, social
justice and the social sector, The News International; Monday, June
22, 2009
Institutionalizing Accountability? The News International;
Monday, May 25, 2009
A Marshall Plan? The News International; Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The white paper and the question of aid effectiveness, The
News International; Saturday, April 11, 2009
The fight against spurious drugs, The News International; Saturday, February 14, 2009
Restructuring and reforming NAB, The
News International; Tuesday, January 27, 2009
NAB and related governance issues, The
News International; Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Democracy and governance – upstream
determinants, The News
International; Monday, September 08, 2008
Independence Day – an ode to governance, The News International; Sunday, August
17, 2008
Governance empirics, The News
International; Sunday, August 03, 2008
Pakistan’s Covert Cartels, The News
International; Thursday, May 22, 2008
Honing the 100-day agenda, The News
International; Sunday, April 06, 2008
Anti-corruption reform – strategic
imperatives, The News International; Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Political
party manifestos – a sectoral insight, The News International; Saturday,
February 16, 2008
The Social Sector – telling evidence, The News International; Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The new government’s option, Blue Chip;
Nov-Dec 2007
Corruption: the need-greed equation, The News International; Sunday, December 09, 2007
Does corruption lurk in the health sector
of Pakistan? The News International; Sunday, August 05, 2007
Public-Private
Partnership
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Peer
reviewed publications

Nishtar S. Time for a global
partnership on Non-Communicable Diseases. Lancet 2007;370(9603):1887-8.
Nishtar S. Public-private ‘partnerships’
in health – a global call to action. Health Res Policy Syst. 2004
Jul 28;2(1):5.

Book
Chapters

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Nishtar S. Public-private partnerships
– a call to action. Book Chapter: In: Commonwealth Health Minister’
Book: 2007

Op-ed columns

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The
forthcoming budget and the public-private mantra, The News
International; Thursday, June 11, 2009
The public-private interface: more than
‘a driver of economic growth’, The News International; Sunday, May
28, 2006
Chronic
diseases
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Peer
reviewed publications

Global
Health and NCDs

Peter Gluckman P, Nishtar S. Armstrong T. Ending childhood obesity: a multidimensional challenge. The Lancet 2015. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60509-8
Rifat Atun, Shabbar Jaffar, Sania Nishtar, Felicia M Knaul, Mauricio L Barreto, Moffat Nyirenda, Nicholas Banatvala, Peter Piot. Improving responsiveness of health systems to non-communicable diseases. The Lancet, 12 February 2013: doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60063-X
Robert Beaglehole, Ruth Bonita, George Alleyne, Richard Horton, Liming Li, Paul Lincoln, Jean Claude Mbanya, Martin McKee, Rob Moodie, Sania Nishtar, Peter Piot, K Srinath Reddy, David Stuckler, for The Lancet NCD Action Group. UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases: Addressing four questions. Published online June 13, 2011 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60879-9
Beaglehole R, Bonita R, Horton R, Adams C, Alleyne G, Asaria P, Baugh V, Bekedam H, Billo N, Casswell S, Cecchini M, Colagiuri R, Colagiuri S, Collins T, Ebrahim S, Engelgau M, Galea G, Gaziano T, Geneau R, Haines A, Hospedales J, Jha P, Keeling A, Leeder S, Lincoln P, McKee M, Mackay J, Magnusson R, Moodie R, Mwatsama M, Nishtar S, Norrving B, Patterson D, Piot P, Ralston J, Rani M, Reddy KS, Sassi F, Sheron N, Stuckler D, Suh I, Torode J, Varghese C, Watt J; Lancet NCD Action Group; NCD Alliance. Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis. Lancet. 2011 Apr 23;377(9775):1438-47.
Samb B, Desai N, Nishtar S, Mendis S, Bekedam H, Wright A, et.al. Prevention and management of chronic disease: a litmus test for health-systems strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries. The Lancet 2010;376(9754): 1785-97.
Nishtar S.
How important are health systems in the prevention of cardiovascular
and other non-communicable diseases? Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med.
2009;6(3):170-1
Nishtar S. Integrating a new
public health order. Lancet 2007;370(9603):1901.
Nishtar S. Time for a global
partnership on Non-Communicable Diseases. Lancet 2007;370(9603):1887-8.
Nishtar S, Voute J. Women and
Heart Disease: time for change. Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med 2007;4(5):231
Nishtar S. Lessons in tackling
chronic disease. BMJ 2006;333(7573)820.
Nishtar S. Improving heart health
in Europe. Circulation 2006;113(4):f16
Azad N. Nishtar S. A call for
a gender specific approach to address the world-wide cardiovascular
disease burden. Prevention and Control 2005;1:223-7.
Voûte J, Nishtar S,
Grizeau-Clemens D. World Heart Day 2000-2004 – A day that builds
awareness and capacity. Prevention and Control, 2005, 1:17-19.
Nishtar S. The SAARC Seven – regional cooperation for sustainable health outcomes.
BMJ 2004. BMJ 2004;328:837.
Jabbour S, Nishtar S, Prabhakaran
D, Chockalingham A, Achiutti A, Agrawal A, Luna M, Garofalo F, Wielgosz
A. Information and communication technology in cardiovascular disease
prevention in developing countries: Hype and Hope. Int J Cardiol.
2003 Dec; 92(2-3): 105-11.
Bayes de Luna A, Tse TF, de Figueiredo
MB, Maranhao M, Voute J, Nishtar S, Fuster V, Poole-Wilson
P; World Heart Federation. World Heart Day: a World Heart Federation
enterprise promoting the prevention of heart disease and stroke
across the world. Circulation. 2003 Sep 2;108(9):1038-40.
Nishtar S. Coronary Heart Disease
Prevention in South Asia. Lancet 2002; 360: 1015-18.

Pakistan and NCDs

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Ahmed QA, Nishtar S, Memish ZA. Poliomyelitis in Pakistan: time for the Muslim world to step in. Lancet. 2013 May 4;381(9877):1521-3. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60764-3. Epub 2013 Apr 24.
Alam AY, Iqbal A, Mohamud KB, Laporte
RE, Ahmed A, Nishtar S. Investigating socio-economic-demographic
determinants of tobacco use in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. BMC Public
Health 2008;8(1):50
Nishtar S, Shera S. Diabetes
prevention and control as part of the integrated Non-Communicable
Disease strategy: the Pakistan approach. Practical Diabetes int
2006;23(8):1-3.
Nishtar S, Lateef E. Tobacco
Control – an integral component of the National Action Plan for
Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases and Health Promotion
in Pakistan. Prevention and Control. Vol2, Issue 2, Pages 95-102
(June 2006)
Nishtar S, Bile KM, Ahmed A,
Faruqui AMA, Mirza Z, Shera S, et al. Process, rationale, and interventions
of Pakistan’s National Action Plan on Chronic Diseases. Prev Chronic
Dis. 2006 Jan;3(1):A14. Epub 2005 Dec 15.
Nishtar S, Bile KM, Ahmed A,
Amjad S, Iqbal A. Integrated population-based surveillance of Non-Communicable
Diseases the Pakistan model. Am J Prev Med. 2005 Dec;29(5 Suppl
1):102-6.
Nishtar S, Minhas FA, Ahmed A,
Badar A, Mohamud KB. Prevention and control of mental illnesses
and mental health: National Action Plan for NCD Prevention, Control
and Health Promotion in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2004;54(12 Suppl
3):S69-77.
Nishtar S, Mohamud KB, Razzak
J, Ghaffar A, Ahmed A, Khan SA, Mirza YA. Injury prevention and
control: National Action Plan for NCD Prevention, Control and Health
Promotion in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2004;54(12 Suppl 3):S57-68.
Nishtar S, Ahmed A, Bhurgri Y,
Mohamud KB, Zoka N, Sultan F, Jafarey NA. Prevention and control
of cancers: National Action Plan for NCD Prevention, Control and
Health Promotion in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2004;54(12 Suppl
3):S45-56.
Nishtar S, Ahmed A, Kazi Y, Khan
A, Mohamud KB. Prevention and control of chronic chest diseases:
National Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable
Diseases and Health Promotion in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2004;54(12
Suppl 3):S42-4.
Nishtar S, Mirza Z, Mohamud KB,
Latif E, Ahmed A, Jafarey NA. Tobacco control: National Action Plan
for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases and Health
Promotion in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2004;54(12 Suppl 3):S31-41.
Nishtar S, Shera S, Rafique G,
Mohamud KB, Ahmed A. Diabetes prevention and control: National Action
Plan for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases and
Health Promotion in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2004;54(12 Suppl
3):S26-30.
Nishtar S, Faruqui AM, Mattu
MA, Mohamud KB, Ahmed A. National Action Plan for Prevention and
Control of Non-Communicable Diseases and Health Promotion in Pakistan
– Cardiovascular diseases. J Pak Med Assoc. 2004;54(12 Suppl 3):S14-25.
Nishtar S. National Action Plan
for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases and Health
Promotion in Pakistan–Common action area. J Pak Med Assoc. 2004;54(12
Suppl 3):S9-13.
Nishtar S. National Action Plan
for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases and
Health Promotion in Pakistan–Prelude and finale. J Pak Med Assoc.
2004;54(12 Suppl 3):S1-8.
Nishtar S. Prevention of Non-Communicable
Diseases in Pakistan: an integrated partnership-based model. Health
Res Policy Syst. 2004 Sep 13;2(1):7.

Riskcorn

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Wierzbicki AS, Nishtar S, Lumb PJ,
Lambert-Hammill M, Crook MA, Marber MS, Gill J. Insulin resistance
phenotypes and coronary artery disease in a native Pakistani cohort.
Int J Clin Pract 2008;62(5):701-7. Epub 2008 Mar 12.
Wierzbicki AS, Nishtar S, Lumb PJ,
Lambert-Hammill M, Crook MA, Marber MS, Gill J. Waist circumference,
metabolic syndrome and coronary artery disease in a Pakistani
cohort. Int J Cardiol 2008;128(1):77-82. Epub 2007 Aug 8.
AS Wierzbicki, S Nishtar, P J
Lumb, M Lambert-Hammill, C N Turner, MA Crook, M S Marber, Gill
JS. Metabolic syndrome and risk of coronary heart disease in a Pakistani
population. Heart 2005;91:1003–1007.
AS Wierzbicki, S Nishtar, P J
Lumb, M Lambert-Hammill, C N Turner, M ACrook, M S Marber, Gill
JS. Impaired renal function and atherosclerosis in a Pakistani cohort.
Curr med Res Opin 21(8); 2005: 1201–1207.
Nishtar S, Wierzbicki AS, Lumb
P, Hammill ML, Turner CN, Cook MA, et al. Low HDL and waist hip
ratio predict the risk of coronary artery disease in Pakistanis.
Curr med Res Opin 2004: 20(1): 55-64.
Nishtar S, Gill JS, Wierzbicki
AS. Smoking exposure in patients with and without angiographically
coronary heart disease in a Pakistani population. J Am Coll Cardiol
2002; 39(9) Suppl B: 460B-461B.

Heartfile
demonstration projects

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Abegunde DO, Shengelia B, Luyten A,
Cameron A, Celletti F, Nishtar S, Pandurangi V, Mendis S.
Can non-physician health-care workers assess and manage cardiovascular
risk in primary care? Bull World Health Organ 2007;85(6):432-40.
Nishtar S, Badar A, Umer K M,
Iqbal A, Bajwa R, Mirza Y A. The Heartfile Lodhran CVD prevention
project – end of project evaluation. Promotion and Education 2007;XIV(1):17-27.
Nishtar S. Heartfile’s Contribution to Health Systems Strengthening in Pakistan. Eastern Mediterranean Journal 2006; 12(2)S38-S53.
Nishtar S, Zoka N, Nishtar S.
S, Khan Y, Jehan S, Mirza Y. A. Poster as tool for disseminating
health related information in a developing country: a pilot experience.
JPMA 2004
Nishtar S
, Mirza YA, Jehan S,
Hadi Y, Badar A, Yusuf S, Shahab S. Newspaper articles as a tool
for cardiovascular prevention programs in a developing country.
J Health Commun. 2004 Jul-Aug;9(4):355-69.
Nishtar S. Cardiovascular disease prevention in low-resource settings: lessons from theHeartfile experience in Pakistan. Ethnicity and Disease 2003; 13(S2): S2/138-148.

Other
in cardiology

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Nishtar
S. Shahab S. Cost and sustainability of long terms therapy of
coronary artery disease in low-income countries. Japanese Journal
of Cardiovascular Disease prevention 2001:36 suppl 1:171
Nishtar S. Customized guidelines
for cardiovascular disease prevention and management in South Asia.
Japanese Journal of Cardiovascular Disease prevention 2001:36 suppl
1:50.
Nishtar S. Shahab S, Gill JS.
Preventive cardiac care targeting women in Pakistan: an unfinished
agenda. Can Jour Cardiol 2000:16 B: 65-6.
Nishtar S. Peripartum cardiomyopthy:
an overview. Pakistan Heart Journal 2000; 11(1):34-8.
Nishtar S. Women in South Asia:
a long way from basic cardiovascular care. Indian Heart Journal
2000; 56(2):706 (Abstract).
Nishtar S. Echocardiographic
identification of clinically silent lesions in SLE. Indian Heart
Journal 2000; 56(2):781 (Abstract)
Nishtar S. Inferior wall artifacts
in Pakistanis: the central obesity effect: Supplement to the American
Journal Nuclear Cardiology, Jan-Feb 1999 Issue.
Nishtar S. The role of vitamins
in coronary artery disease. Pak J Cardiol 1999:10(1) 5-7.
Nishtar S, Khan IS, Shahab S.
Diagnostic accuracy of spect scanning in the diagnosis of ischaemic
heart disease using coronary angiography as a gold standard: A PIMS
experience. Pak J Cardiol 1998: 9(4): 83-7.
Nishtar S. Lipid levels in Pakistanis
overseas: lessons learnt. (Editorial). Pak J Cardiol 1998:9(4):
1.
Nishtar S, Zafar J. Hypothyroid
cardiomyopathy: a case report. Pak Heart Jour 1998; 31(3-4): 62-5.
Nishtar S, Mattu MA. Linked angina
(Editorial). Pak J Cardiol 1998; 9(1-2):1.
Nishtar S, Mattu MA, Khan IS. Frequency
of left anterior descending artery disease occurrence: A PIMS experience.
Pak Heart Jour 1998; 31(3-4) 40-4.
Nishtar S, Mattu MA. Review Article:
Cardiac valvular involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus. Pak
J Cardiol 1997;8(3,4): 66-8.
Nishtar S, Khan IS, Mattu MA,
Saleem M. Surviving ventricular rupture. PIMS Jour Surg 1997; 13:72-3.
Nishtar S, Thrombogenicity of
anticoagulants. Pak J Cardiol 1993:10(1): 3.

Books

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Nishtar S. National Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable
Diseases and Health Promotion in Pakistan. Heartfile 2004.
Nishtar S. Coronary
Heart Disease Prevention in South Asia; SAARC Cardiac Society. ISBN:
969-8651-00-4, Islamabad, Pakistan. 2002