"Rwanda actually had mental health nurses after the genocide in various tiers. Excellent talks on mental health and how to integrate in primary and secondary care. Egs from Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe." #IAS2025 @FatimaMirPedsID + @rashida_abbferr @ #ias2025. #Kigali

Pakistani families know #breastfeeding is A+ but our @AKUGlobal researchers found they miss a few crucial details explaining that malnutrition/infection vulnerability angle. #Healthmessaging needs to pivot. @FyezahJehan:.🔗

Please congratulate Dr Furqan Kabir. He works on:.Next-gen sequencing to explore pathogens genomics and gut microbiome.Environmental surveillance, wastewater studies.Molecular diagnostics for <5 mortality .Genomics protocol to detect pathogens from clinical specimens

@AKUPaediatrics is a "model" department, says @AdilHaiderMD. Even as we bid him farewell, he kept the spotlight on our faculty. Thank you for all the support, Dean.

"I won't fit into those shoes!" @AdilHaiderMD had a fantastic send-off from @AKUPaediatrics which made him a cake with his famous sneakers. @FyezahJehan thanked him for saying yes to all our important growth plans. Auf Wiedersehen, doc.

Many NICU babies develop a flat spot on their head—this is common and treatable. Early care and gentle repositioning can help your baby’s head grow evenly. @AliSHussain1 alerted us to this blog.💚 Share with parents you know.

Exam prep BTS: 24 AKU Ob&Gyn and Paediatrics faculty met to fine tune questions for MCQs, SAQs, OSCEs, and TOACs at the 2nd Combined Questions Review Retreat led by Dr Sana Saeed and Dr Aliya Begum. You can run but you can't hide, med students.

🚨 Want to future-proof your career in Genomic Epidemiology? Join @AKUGlobal hands-on Pathogen Genomics Workshop.📍 Taught by @imran_nisar and his team, who set up AKU's Infectious Disease Research Lab's Genomics lab during the pandemic.🔗

Professor @rashida_abbferr mentors Pakistani researchers at @AKUGlobal. Here is her talk on why healthy mothers have babies with HIV from our annual conference last year .

📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS.👶🏽 AKU Paediatrics & Child Health Research Week 2025.🗓️ Main Event: August 22–23.🛠️ Workshops: August 18–21.🎯 Children First: Catalyzing Change in a World of Polycrisis.📩 Submit here:.📅 Deadline: Friday, July 14, 2025

If the last year has shown us anything it is that children are living in a world riddled with poly-crisis. The next @AKUPaediatrics annual conference is dedicated to figuring out how we can put them first given these realities. 🗓️Aug 18-21 preconference workshops

The eye doctor will see you now. Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences clinics added to first floor Paediatrics clinics at AKU. Chair of Ophthalmology Prof. Karim Damji and Chair of @AKUPaediatrics @FyezahJehan came to kick it off. @alfasaleem is delighted it's all under one roof.

📣 CALL for BOOK DONATIONS AKU's children's ward has a 🔮 magical train that transports our patients to lands far beyond D0 and P0. We need your help to keep it 📚running! Donate new or gently used books for children of all ages—from toddlers to teens.

We are really sorry this time, but our newsletter ran over the attention limit. If you still fancy giving a quick look at the research we're doing (and grant money) scroll through Feb-April 2025's updates.

RT @imran_nisar: @_saadshafqat @AKUGlobal @AKUAANA @akdn @TheIsmaili Proud to say that I led the medical college research subcommittee that….

Some doctors decide they don't want to be limited by individual patients they can see so they branch into research that touches the lives of millions of children. They then start a rolling fund to keep the work going. @virani_md @AKUGlobal @_saadshafqat @AnitaZaidi @imran_nisar

Those cows and goats and camels are really cute but their ticks are not. Paediatrician and infectious disease expert @FatimaMirPedsID wants your kids dressed a certain way if touching is involved #EidulAdha2025

Prof. Khadija N. Humayun congratulates Dr Muzna Arif and Dr Fozia Memon for passing the first ever #Paediatric #Endocrinology FCPS exam. The preparation took months. Ten doctors sat the exam, only five made it to the final pass. Eleven examiners grilled them TOACS style.

Dr Kishwar Enam (@kishwarenam) wants child protection in Pakistan to be integrated. She and the other members of the Citizens for Child Rights held a press conference in Karachi to unveil forms they developed: ~3,000 cases reported in Pakistan yearly but true numbers higher

Do you think she could share that picture of her mum again kicking off a campaign with her as a baby?.