Dr. Samia Altaf

Wilson Center’s Pakistan Scholar For the Year 2007-08

At the time Dr. Altaf was chosen as Pakistan Scholar she was a public health physician whose career focused on the management and coordination of complex health delivery systems for low-income populations. She worked in Pakistan, India, Indonesia, and the United States. In Pakistan she has been on the faculty at Aga Khan University Medical College, served as a primary health care program officer for UNICEF, and consulted for international aid agencies. She recently finished a four-year assignment with the USAID mission in Islamabad, working as acting director and subsequently as senior advisor, Office of Health. She graduated from the University of Punjab’s Fatima Jinnah Medical College and the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Her manuscript Aid Without Development has been submitted for review to a publisher. Altaf spent nine months in residence at the Wilson Center, beginning in September 2007, carrying out research and writing on a project titled “Improving Aid Effectiveness: A Case Study of the Health and Population Sectors in Pakistan”.

Contributions
Running on Empty: Pakistan’s Water Crisis Unpacking a potentially devastating crisis, from scarcity to sanitation
Aid Effectiveness in Pakistan: Case Study of the Health and Population Sector