I am a medical doctor, a qualified and experienced public health specialist, and an epidemiologist. I have 20 years of work experience in teaching/mentoring, disease surveillance, outbreak response, district/provincial/national health systems, and international organizations. I am currently employed with TEPHINET USA and working as Technical Coordinator for FELTP-Pakistan, National Lead for Disease Surveillance and Response Units (DSRUs) as well as the focal person for FELTP-Frontline Trainings since October 2019. I am also part of the Global Burden of Disease collaborator network, the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), and work with the University of Washington USA as a collaborator. In addition, I am a reviewer for public health journals and international conferences and presented research work at different international conferences. I have attended multiple international short trainings and have published in national and international journals. Lastly, I am actively involved in the national COVID-19 surveillance and response activities since February 2020 in Pakistan and am a member of the WHO expert consultant roster for Polio and the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) since 2015.