Pakistani official awarded with top prestigious international award
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s Director General Health Dr. Assad Hafeez has been honoured with the top international award.
He was conferred with the prestigious A.T. Shousha award for excellence in Public Health by the World Health Organization
The award came in recognition of his outstanding contribution in the field of Public Health globally, at the regional level and in Pakistan.
This is first ever time that a public health practitioner from Pakistan has been bestowed upon this unique honor in the long list of awardees in the past many years.
Dr Hafeez remained chair of the highest global decision making body in health; the Executive Board of WHO and is an author of a number of seminal research papers in international journals.
