Zulfiqar Bhutta


Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is a Pakistani physician who currently works as a Professor at the Department of Nutritional Sciences and the Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto. He also holds concurrent professorship at the Department of Paediatrics, Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan and at the Schools of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, Tufts University, Boston University, University of Alberta and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Early life and education

Bhutta received his MBBS from Khyber Medical College in Peshawar, Pakistan in 1977 and his PhD from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996.

Career

Bhutta is the co-director of the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and the founding director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at the Aga Khan University.
Bhutta was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2018, and is also a Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, the Royal College of Physicians of the UK, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has also served as former Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee of Pakistan between 2003 and 2014, and as a member of the Independent Expert Review Group appointed by the UN Secretary-General to review progress in maternal and child health of the Millennium Development Goals between 2011 and 2015.
Since 2019, Bhutta has been a member of the Lancet–SIGHT Commission on Peaceful Societies Through Health and Gender Equality, chaired by Tarja Halonen.
In 2020, he served on “A future for the world’s children?”, a WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission, co-chaired by Helen Clark and Awa Coll-Seck.

Recognition

Bhutta was awarded the Pride of Performance civil decoration by President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain in 2016.
Bhutta was a recipient of the TWAS Prize in 2016.