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Fawad Akbari

Senior Manager, Health & Humanitarian Response Programs, Aga Khan Foundation Canada

Fawad is a pediatrician and global health specialist with particular focus on health and nutrition, governance, fragility and intersection across these themes. Senior Manager with AKFC since 2014, Fawad oversees the Health and Humanitarian Response Programs of the organization. Before this, he worked for AKF Afghanistan, Cure International Hospital and Marie Stopes International in different managerial and technical leadership capacities. He has been involved with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research as Fellow, Coach, Resource Person and Mentor in their Afghanistan and Iraq Fellowship programs since 2009. He has recently joined the WHO Collaborating Center for Knowledge Translation and Technology Assessment for Health Equity at the University of Ottawa as a research fellow.


 

My Sessions

Making Progress on Canada’s Approach to the Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus

Room 106 AB

REGISTER FOR THIS SESSION LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE INTERPRETATION TOKEN: LEADERSHIPCAN2   Focusing on double and triple nexus programming in practice, this session will bring together recent evidence from this approach in programming, with current civil society, political, defence and academic perspectives, framing an interactive discussion that will contribute to the creation of a white paper […]

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