Muhammad Sarwat Mirza
HANDS, Pakistan
Biography
Muhammad Sarwat Mirza possesses wide experience in the field of program/ project designing and development, program management, Monitoring, Evaluation & Research especially related to Reproductive Health, Nutrition and Family Planning, working with HANDS for last 22 years. He had experience of developing Behavior Change Communication material for promotion of breast feeding, dietary habits of pregnant and lactating women, nutrition for children and adolescents. among the rural communities. Recently he has concluded two operation research projects with multiple partners and donors on “Nutrition and Reproductive health issues of Pregnant women to improve the birth outcome and reduce the low birth weight incidence”, and Rapid assessment of drought stricken area in Pakistan. He played a major role in organizing the Pakistan SUN movement (Scale Up Nutrition) CSO Alliance.
Mr. Mirza did MBBS and master in Public health and had served at Dept. of Pediatrics, The Aga Khan University Hospital Pakistan. He worked on several clinical research projects such as Dietary management of diarrhea, control trial of local food, zinc supplementation in malnourished children. He is serving as Research advisor for Community Health Initiatives related to Food, Nutrition and Research to Allama Iqbal Open University Pakistan for post graduate medical students. He is a citizen of Pakistan and fluent in English and Urdu.