Dr Sania Nishtar discusses polio eradication progress with Pakistani health leaders

August 13, 2025. Dr Nishtar met with National Command and Control Centre Chairperson Ayesha Raza
and representatives from WHO Pakistan, EPI Pakistan, UNICEF Pakistan and other organisations to
discuss enhanced collaboration towards achieving a polio-free world. She noted that Pakistan, one of the
last two endemic countries for wild polio, is closer than ever to this goal.
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Dr Sania Nishtar highlights Pakistan partnership achievements during Pakistan mission

August 13, 2025. Dr Nishtar met with representatives from Pakistan’s government, NHSRC, WHO
Pakistan and UNICEF Pakistan during her mission there. She highlighted Pakistan as a strategic partner
for Gavi, noting their collaboration has reached over 80 million unique children with routine immunisation
and averted over 900,000 future deaths.

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Dr Sania Nishtar at the July 2025 Gavi Board meeting

July 26, 2025. Dr Nishtar expressed thanks to Gavi Board Chair José Manuel Barroso and all members of
the Gavi Board for a meeting that concluded with a series of measures that chart a course for the future
of immunisation, including approving a new strategic approach to protecting children in fragile settings,
introducing RSV vaccines and establishing an mpox vaccine stockpile.
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Keynote at the World Cancer Leaders’ Summit

November 25, 2015: The World Cancer Leaders’ Summit, an annual high level convening hosted by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) was held in Istanbul on November 18, 2015. The meeting “provides an important forum to secure a coordinated, multileveled global response to address the spiraling cancer epidemic”. UICC is a Geneva based apex body with a membership of 900 organizations across 155 countries.

Since the summit was held immediately after the UN’s pronouncement of the Sustainable Development Goals with their focus on partnerships as a key lever of delivery, its theme centered on international collaboration.

Our President, Dr Sania Nishtar was the keynote speaker alongside the Minister of Health of Turkey at the event. Her talk focused on conflict of interest management, which she explained in an interview “is the bedrock on which partnerships need to be framed”. Her detailed views on the subject can be accessed here: http://goo.gl/NzEbQM

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Professor Emeritus Harvard University and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1985)

‘Choked Pipes is a magisterial book intended not for the day but responds to the needs of an era, written not for a single country but relevant for the intractable health problems of the developing world. Beyond the sumptuous assembly of evidence, presented is the analytical strategy of a doer. The importance of Nishtar’s achievement is that reform flows from the inner moral values that aim to make a social order more
equitable and just.’
——– Bernard Lown ——–
Professor Emeritus Harvard University and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1985)

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October 29, 2015: The Ending Childhood Obesity Commission recently held its European regional consultation in Malta on October 29 and 30. The meeting was organized by the World Health Organization EURO regional office and the Government of Malta and was attended by countries from the region. This consultation is the last in a series of regional consultations, the Commission is holding globally to seek regional perspectives on the issue. The meeting was chaired by our President, Dr. Sania Nishtar, who co-chairs the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity along with Sir Peter Gluckman, Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

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Former President of Ireland and President

‘This book represents a watershed in framing developing country health reform as a step towards realizing the right to health’.
——– Mary Robinson ——–
Former President of Ireland and President, Realising Rights: The Ethical Globalisation Initiative

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Cairo, Egypt, July 2-3, 2015

Regional consultation of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity

Attended the meeting as Co-Chair of the Commission

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Hong Kong, China. June 22-23, 2015

The third meeting of WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity
Attended as co-chair

The third meeting of WHO’s Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity was held in Hong Kong on June 22 and 23rd. Dr. Sania Nishtar co-chaired the commission meeting along with co-chair Sir Peter Gluckman, Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

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