Senior Advisor to the Director of Health, Aga Khan Development Network; Switzerland

Fawzia advises the Director of Health AKDN and leads the work on decarbonising health operations with a plan to reach Net Zero by, if not before, 2030. She is Honorary Professor of the Practice of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Professor of Practice at the James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University; Trustee of OKRE, Founding Member of AmplifyChange and consults on occasion.

Fawzia has worked with over 20 governments to evaluate, reposition and develop initiatives. She was Senior Policy Advisor to an intergovernmental South-South initiative of 16 Ministries of Health: ‘Partners in Population and Development’ and developed several collaborations in reproductive health including India with China, and Indonesia with Bangladesh and Thailand. As a Board Member for BRAC, she was a member of the transition team for succession planning and the establishment of BRAC Global for which she was invited to serve on its Board.

As a Global Health Leadership Fellow and Senior Policy Adviser to the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNAIDS, and The Global Fund, Fawzia supported organisational reforms and developed strategic plans. Her engagements with INGOs, include CARE International, Médecins Sans Frontières International & AmplifyChange to review proposals and develop programs within Asia and Africa.

Her governance work spans analyses for the Global Fund in 20 countries. She facilitated the conceptualisation and establishment of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative with governance from the public, private and academic sectors including the governments of India, Brazil and Malaysia. She also developed the Electoral Integrity Initiative (Kofi Annan Foundation), and managed research into financial transactions and governance recommendations for natural resource extraction for the Africa Progress Panel. As Board Member for BRAC, other NGOs and web-based platforms (including Shohojogi-AIDS — which she founded, and the Fondation du Present for which she was a Board Member), she drafted constitutions, led online elections and participated in governance reforms.

Fawzia has a PhD in immunology/medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.