Education
PhD in Population and Public Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi. 2015 to 2021.
Masters of Business Administration, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan, 2010
MD. 2005
MBBS, Sindh Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan, 2001
Research interests
Women and Child Health and Nutrition
Adolescent Health and Well-being
Social determinants of Health
Experience
Associate Professor (Research), Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan, July 2024 to date
Assistant Director, Institute for Global Health and Development , The Aga Khan University, Jan 2022 - April 2024
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan, 2015 to June 2024
Senior Instructor (Research), Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan, Nov 2012-2015
Assistant Project Manager, Division of Women and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan, Jan 2011-Oct 2012
Professional associations
Member, Ethical Review Committee, Aga Khan University
Member, Committee on Nutrition, International Pediatric Association
Coordinator Global Mother Child Research: The Global Health Network: Oxford University
Working Group Member WHO, Guidelines for prevention and management of wasting
Director, Cochrane Center Pakistan
Member, for the advisory group for evaluation of adolescent nutrition project
Member, WHO Taskforce on influenza vaccine efforts
Member, WHO task force for evaluation of Lipid-based nutrient supplements
Member, Advisory group for evaluation of adolescent nutrition project Writing group for ‘Lancet Nutrition Series’
Global expert for monitoring and evaluation for the CHNRI: Global Burden of Diarrhea
Awards and honours
Panel member: “Climate Change and Infectious Diseases” roundtable. COP28, Dubai, 2023
Named as top 1% of highly cited researcher by Clarivate for last decade, 2023
Named amongst top 2% of scientists globally (Stanford), 2023
Ranked number 1 amongst Scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in Pakistan and top 1% globally by research.com,
Falcon Award, GLIDE, 2021
Excellence in Research Award, Aga Khan University, 2021
Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher Award 2021
Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher Award 2017
Nutrition Leadership Award from ‘Sight and Life’ for the ‘Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group’ on the Lancet Nutrition Series 2013
Scholarship for PhD for the year 2015
Scholarship for academics (MBA) by Shell Pakistan for the year 2008-10
Distinction final year MBBS 2002
Scholarship for academics (MBBS) by Federal Government Pakistan for the year 1996-2001
Publications
https://scholars.aku.edu/en/persons/jai-kumar-das
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