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Dr. Sania Nishtar in Jordan at a dinner hosted by the Pakistan Ambassador during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar in Quito during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
EAT Advisory Board, New York 2017 Photo: Linus Sundahl-Djerf
Sania Nisthar with the Minister of Health of Poland in Warsaw during the campaign visit for the WHO DG election in 2017
Sania Nishtar speaking to the commonwealth ministers of health a day before the elections of the WHO DG in May 2017
Sania Nishtar with Pakistan Permanent Rep in New York
Sania Nishtar speaking during an OIC meeting a day before the elections of the WHO DG in May 2017
Sania Nishtar giving the keynote address at the 2017 meeting of the Europen Public Health Alliance in Brussels
Sania Nishtar at the Ministry of Health of The Netherlands during the WHO DG election campaing 2017
Sania Nishtar giving her keynote speech at the launch of the NCD Access Coailition in New York September 2017
Sania Nishtar and Paksitani Ambassador to Belgium meeting a senator in Brussels
Sania Nishtar at Permanent mission of Laos in Geneva with the Pakistani Health Minister and PR during the WHO DG election campaing 2017
Sania Nishtar at the Ministry of Health of Austria with the minister of health during the WHO DG election campaing 2017
Sania Nishtar at the Ministry of Health of Hungry during the WHO DG election campaing 2017
One of the lunctime events at the Palais de Nations in Geneva during the WHO DG election campaign of Sania Nishtar in 2017
Lunch hosted for the Pacific Island PRs by the Pakistani PR in New York for Dr. Sania Nishtar’s WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Lunch hosted by Pakistan Ambassador in Mexico during the WHO DG election campaign of Sania Nishtar
Dr. Sania Nishtar with the President of Nepal_ Bidhya Devi Bhandari during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017.
EAT Advisory Board, New York 2017 Photo: Linus Sundahl-Djerf
Dr. Sania Nishtar with the other two Shortlisted candidates_ Tedros Adanhom and David Nabarro in Quito during the WHO Director General election campaign 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar with the minister of health of Latvia during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar with the minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia in Monrovia during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar with Tedros Adanhom and David Nabarro in Quito during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar visiting the UN foundation in Washington during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking to permanent representatives in Geneva over lunch during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking to the EU Permanent representatives in Geneva during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking to the Saudi delegation in Geneva during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking to the SG of Commonwealth Secretariat during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking to journalists in the Pakistan Embassy in Jakarta about her WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking to journalists in Pakistan about her WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking to civil society in Washington during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking to African leaders in Geneva during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking to a journalist in Mexico during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Trinidad and Tobago during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017.
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking at a Candidates Forum in Fiji during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking at a forum in Geneva as candidate for WHO Director General election 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum Impact Summit in New York on the sidelines of UNGA 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Qatar in Doha during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of New Zealand in Auckland during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Jordan in Amman during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017.
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Jordan in Amman during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017.
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Jamaica during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Chile in Santiago during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Egypt during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Finland in Helsinki during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Grenada Nicholas Steele during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Brazil in Brasila during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Barbados during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Argentina during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Health of Antigua and Barbuda_ Molwyn Joseph during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017.
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Deputy Minister of Health of Colombia in Bogota during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017.
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Deputy Minister of Health of Mexico during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017.
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar meeting Secretary Tom Price in Washington during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand in Bangkok during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017.
Dr. Sania Nishtar campaigning in Copenhagen at the WHO EURO regional committee meeting during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar addressing the 70th World Health Assembly as one of the 3 shortlisted nominees for WHO Director General_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar and Pakistan Ambassador in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brussels during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar at the airport in Fiji being welcomed by “Serenadians” during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017.
Dr. Sania Nishtar at the Ministry of Health in Mexico City during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
EAT Advisory Board, New York 2017 Photo: Linus Sundahl-Djerf
Dr Sania Nishtar with the Pakistani and Chinee Permnent Represenatives to the UN in Geneva_ 2016
Dr Sania Nishtar givng a keynote speech in Singapore_ during the Second Circulatory Summit
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr Sania Nishtar with the Minister of Health of Thailand in the WHO DG Election campaign office set up in Sri Lanka
Dr Sania Nishtar with Mr. Aurelijus Veryga_ Minister of Health of Lithuania in Vilnius_ during the WHO DG Election Campaign 2017
Campaigning in Indonesia Ministry of health Dr. Sania Nishtar’s WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Campaigning in Indonesia Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Sania Nishtars WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr Sania Nishtar with Chritine Lagarde in Islamabad
Dr Sania Nishtar with Ambassador Neris Germanas in Lithuania during the WHO DG Election Campaign 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar during a reception in Geneva during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar canvassing in Geneva during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar canvassing in Geneva during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar canvassing in the Czech Republic during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar canvassing in Geneva during the WHO Director General election campaign 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar canvassing in Geneva during the WHO Director General election campaign of 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar canvassing in Geneva along with Minister Zahid Hamid during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar canvassing in SAraduring the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar canvassing in Estonia during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar canvassing in Bratislava during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Dr. Sania Nishtar campaigning in Manila at the WHO WPRO regional committee meeting during the WHO Director General election campaign_ 2017
Sania Nishtar with Zameer Akram in Geneva at the World health assembly
Sania Nishtar Chairing a meeting on education and health as Fedearal Minister
Sania Nishtar at the World Health Day. 2013
Sania Nishtar at a fundraiser for HHF in Karachi, 2013
Sania Nishtar at the Pakistan launch of the Planetary Health Commission Report
Sania Nishtar as Minister with 21 European Ambassadors on the anniversary of the creation of the European Union. Islamabad, May 2013
Sania Nishtar at a meeting on health with the Prime Minister Khoso, Karachi 2013
Sania Nishtar at the launch of her book Choked Pipes, Islamabad, 2010
Sania Nishtar at the launch of the Population Emergency in Pakistan
Sania Nishtar at the National Commission on Women, 2013
Minister Sania Nishtar with Richard Horton in Islamabad
Dr Sania making a kenote speech at an NGO event in Islamabad
Choked Pipes launched in Karachi
Sania Nishtar as Federal Minister with 21 European Ambassadors on the anniversary of the creation of the European Union. Islamabad, May 2013
Awardees of the first Global Innovation Award, New York 2011
ASCON-XIII 15 March11.17
Sania speaking at the Nossal Institute event in Australia
Sania Nishtar, Foundation Advisory Board Chair of WHF in 2004
Sania Nishtar with Seth Berkley at the Rockefeller Foundation
2012 Clinton Global Initiative Mid-Year Meeting
Sania Nishtar with Queen Sophia in Barcelona
Sania Nishtar with Mary Robinson, President of Ireland at CGI
Sania Nishtar with Chelsea Clinton at CGI
WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity hearing with Civil society, Geneva
Sania Nishtar at the World Bank in Washington speaking about decentralization reform
Sania Nishtar at the closing plenary of the Geneva Forum
Sania Nishtar speaking to journalists at Palais de Nations Geneva
Sania Nishtar speaking to an audience in Mexico through a video link
Sania Nishtar speaking on a CGI panel in New York
Sania Nishtar Speaking in Riyadh at an NCDs event
Sania Nishtar speaking at the Prince Mahidol conference in Thailand
Sania Nishtar speaking at the Prince Mahidol conference in Thailand, 2012
Sania Nishtar speaking at the Asian Development Bank in Manila
Sania Nishtar speaking at an UNGA side event at the Rockefeller Foundation in 2014
Rome, Italy, November 19-21, 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar at the Second International Conference on Nutrition
Geneva, Switzerland. April 20-21, 2015, Dr. Sania Nishtar giving a keynote speech at the WHO headquarters on NCDs
Manila, Phillpines, March 24-25, 2015, Sania Nishtar at the Regional consultation of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity Attended the meeting as Co-Chair of the Commission
Mexico, December 9, 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar's keynote speech at the International Seminar on Public Policies against Childhood Obesity and Overweight through a video link
Geneva-Switzerland, January 13-14, 2015, Dr. Sania Nishtar at the Second Meeting of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity
Dr. Sania Nishtar at the Asian Development Bank Seminar Series. Baku, Azerbaijan, May 2, 2015.
Washington, USA. March 29, 2015, Dr. Sania Nishtar was a session expert at the The Global Philanthropy Forum
Dubai, UAE. November 9-10, 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar at the World Economic Forum’s Summit on the Global Agenda
Geneva, Switzerland. October 13- 14, 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar co-charing the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity: Hearings with non-State actors
New York, USA. September 22, 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar along with Julio Frenk, Sir George Alleyne, Richard Horton and others at the first meeting of the Commission on Global Access to Pain Control and Palliative Care
New York, USA. September 22, 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking at the Global Health Workforce Alliance Universal Health Coverage Panel
New York, USA. September 22, 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar along with Laurie Garriett at the MSH reception: A toast to Universal Health Coverage
Boston, June 1-5, 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar, Tessa Richards, Sir Micheal Barber and Recep Akdag at the Ministerial Health Leaders Forum of the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School
New York, USA. July 11, 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar moderating the NCD Alliance event at the UN headquarters. Margaret Chan, Sir George Alleyne and Dr. Howard Koh
New York, USA. July 12, 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking at the NCDs review roundtable at the UN Headquarters
Geneva, Switzerland. July 16-19, 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar, Sir Peter Gluckman, Margaret Chan and other commissioners at the first meeting of the WHO commission on Ending Childhood Obesity
Bellagio, Lombardy, Italy. July 2014, Dr. Sania Nishtar participating as a commission member at The Future of Planetary Health Commission meeting convened by Rockefeller Foundation, the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Lancet
Gaborone, Botswana. March, 2013, Dr. Sania Nishtar along with global health leaders at the Global Thematic Consultation on Health in the post 2015 Development Agenda
New York, USA. September 23, 2013, Dr. Sania Nishtar chairing a plenary session on NCDs and sustainable development
New York, USA. September 25, 2013, Dr. Sania Nishtar at the giving the Thought leaders lecture at the UNICEF headquarters
New York, USA. September 23-26, 2013, Dr. Sania Nishtar commitment maker at the Clinton Global Initiative along with Secretary Hillary Clinton
Washington DC, USA. November 6, 2013, Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking about Pakistan's Galloping Urbanization at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Gurgaon, India, November 6-8, 2012, Dr. Sania Nishtar at the World Economic Forum session "Health Collaboration as a Bridge"
Bellagio Italy, September 25-28, 2012, Dr. Sania Nishtar co-hosting the meeting on Complex Systems Analysis at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Centre
Washington, USA. July 22, 2012, Dr. Sania Nishtar opening plenary speaker at the International AIDS conference
London, UK. August 1, 2012, Dr. Sania Nishtar at the Global Health Policy Summit hosted by the Imperial College London and Qatar Foundation
Hiroshima, Japan. August 25, 2012, Dr. Sania Nishtar's plenary talk at the 20th IPPNW World Congress
Dr. Sania Nishtar attended as a panelist at the High level meeting on Child Survival: a Call to Action in Washington on June 14, 2012.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 10-12, 2012, Dr. Sania Nishtar speaking at WHOs High Level Conference on NCDs
The World Health Organization and Department of Health UK Global Health Promotion, Dr. Sania Nishtar attended the meeting as an invited expert.
Annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, 2013
2012 CGI Mid-Year Meeting
Sania Nishtar at the Global Philanthropy Forum, 2015
Sania Nishtar at a plenary session in China
Sania Nishtar at the Earth Institute, Columbia University meeting on wellbeing in 2012
Sania Nishtar at the Closing plenary of the Geneva Health Forum
Sania Nishtar at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007 panel on malnutrition, New York
Sania Nishtar at the Partners for a New Begining Aspen Institute Panel in Turkey
Sania Nishtar at an CSW NCDs event in New York
Sania Nishtar at the Innovative Financing meeting in Abu Dhabi.
Sania Nishtar at the House of Lords Speaking about Heartfile Financing in July 2011
Sania Nishtar at WHO Cairo in a strategic planning meeting
Sania Nishtar at the Rockefeller center in Bellagio, Lake como for a health retreat
Sania Nishtar at the WHO Global Coordinating Mechanism on NCDs meeting, 2015 Geneva
Sania Nishtar at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio center, 2008
Sania Nishtar at the WEF Global Agenda Council meeting in 2013
Sania Nishtar on Asian Development Bank Poster on Anti-corruption day with President of ADB
Sania Nishtar receiving Global Innovation Award in New York

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