​​Dr Fauziah Rabbani​​

​Associate Vice Provost, Resea​rch

Dr Fauziah Rabbani is currently serving as the Associate Vice Provost (Research) for all AKU campuses. She leads the research grant management system, governance of core facilities including providing oversight for biosafety, innovation and good conduct of research.​

From 2009-2017, Dr Rabbani was the Chair for the Department of Community Health Sciences (CHS) at AKU, Karachi. CHS is one of the largest departments of the Medical College with 38 faculty and 170 staff members. CHS has teaching responsibility in all five years of the undergraduate MBBS programme, has two postgraduate MSc programmes approved by the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council and a four-year Community Medicine Residency training recognised by the College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan. The Department operates a 24/7 continuing education programme offering short national, regional and international certified courses on a regular basis in all disciplines of Public Health. Working with research group heads and principal investigators, as Chair of CHS at AKU, Dr Rabbani was responsible for overseeing the execution of approximately 20 multimillion dollar grants on an annual basis. 

Dr Rabbani was also the Head of the Health Systems and Policy research group at CHS and provided leadership to the MSc Health Policy and Management (HPM) programme where she was directing courses in Health Systems Research and Quality Management in Health Services. She also supervised several Masters Theses and served as the internal examiner on several occasions. She is one of the pioneers of the PhD in Health Sciences (Public Health stream) programme at AKU that was launched in 2014 and also worked towards launching a track in Health & Hospital Administration. She is listed as an expert for regional hospital strategy development and capacity building of hospital managers for WHO EMR.  As Chair CHS Dr Rabbani worked towards the establishment of a Centre of Excellence in Population/Public Health with a School of Public Health being its cornerstone. 

Internationally, Dr Rabbani has strong linkages with the Division of Global Health Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Amsterdam and University College London. She is a visiting Professor at Fondazione ISTUD per la Cultura d'Impresa e di Gestione, Italy where she is working with the team to advance the discipline of narrative medicine in the teaching and research of public health at AKU. She is also a reviewer for WHO TDR for short term training grants on research capacity strengthening and is a member of EMRAIN, an Eastern Mediterranean network of academicians and researchers in public health based in American University Beirut. At the national level she serves on the Board of Governors for the Pakistan Health Research Council (PHRC), is a member of the Advisory Committee Sindh Hepatitis Control Programme and a visiting faculty at Health Services Academy, Islamabad and Lahore Medical & Dental College.

Dr Rabbani has a gold medal in research from Pakistan Academy of Medical Sciences. She is also a recipient of the Commonwealth Award of Excellence and the WHO UNISOL prize. Her scholarly work consists of obtaining grants from MRC-UK, Wellcome Trust, WHO, and the Gates Foundation etc. to mention a few.  

Dr Rabbani holds an MBBS from Sindh Medical College (Pakistan), a Masters in Public Health from University of Alabama (United States), an FCPS in Community Medicine from College of Physicians and Surgeons (Pakistan), an FRCP in Community Medicine from Royal College of Physicians (Scotland) and a PhD in Health Systems Research from Karolinska Institutet (Sweden). 

She is a health systems expert with focus on implementation research. Besides several book chapters and indexed technical reports, Dr Rabbani has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications to her credit.