Project
Title
| CITRIC
Centre
| Principal Investigator
| Amount In USD
| Project
Scope
|
COVID-19 Willingness to Respond Study | CoE Trauma and Emergencies
| Dr. Nargis Asad | 226,338 | Strengthening self-efficacy and response willingness towards public health emergencies, including pandemics and disasters, in emergency departments' clinical personnel in a LMIC setting |
Feasibility Study for 4 min City in Karachi | CoE Trauma and Emergencies | Dr. Mirza Noor Ali Baig
| 40,000 | To develop a locally relevant framework/ protocol and test the feasibility of AEDs in the management of OHCA patients in Karachi.
|
Improving Healthcare Worker Safety Through Appropriate PPE
| CoE Trauma and Emergencies | Dr. Badar Afzal
| 9,000 | Develop practical risk mitigation strategies to optimise PPE use, and evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies. |
Assessment of Patient Safety and Adverse Events at Hospitals in Pakistan | Centre for Patient Safety | Dr. Asad Latif
| 23,167 | Conduct a comprehensive risk assessment of quality and patient safety at major hospitals across Pakistan, along with providing training to build capacity for quality patient safety. |
Trauma Registry | CoE Trauma and Emergencies | Dr. Natasha Shaukat
| 57,632 | Establish a trauma registry for traumatic emergencies. |
FEAMER Trial
| CoE Trauma and Emergencies | Dr. Adil Haider
| 105,000 | This study can contribute to potentially saving thousands of children every year through the addition of teleconsultations in ambulance service, and by addressing an expertise gap occurring in the most critical minutes of a child's transport to a fixed emergency care facility. |
AKU Trauma and Injury Research Training | CoE Trauma and Emergencies | Dr. Nadeem Ullah Khan | 1,350,000 | Research capacity development of AKU and AKDN globally.
|
The Dawood Foundation
| COVID Tele-ICU | Dr. Asad Latif | 500,000 | The project focuses on critical care components and is expected to directly increase health care system capacity at provincial and national levels. This programme can transform the future of ICU and HDU care in Pakistan as it focuses on capacity building using online and on-site educational tools, critical care capacity assessments of the healthcare facilities and support for HDU and ICU physicians through telemedicine. |
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
| COVID Tele-ICU | Dr. Asad Latif | 500,000 | The project focuses on critical care components and is expected to directly increase health care system capacity at provincial and national levels. This programme can transform the future of ICU and HDU care in Pakistan as it focuses on capacity building using online and on-site educational tools, critical care capacity assessments of the healthcare facilities and support for HDU and ICU physicians through telemedicine.
|
Pakistan Life Savers Programme Endowment
| CoE Trauma and Emergencies | Dr. Junaid razzak
| 88,000 | Building capacity of 10 million people through hands-on CPR and STOP THE BLEED training.
|
AKU Office of Provost Budget | Centre for Clinical Best Practices | | 110,000 | Official Budget |
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation GC 992
| Health Data Science Centre
| Dr. Zainab Samad | 360,000 | Building federated data structures and data insight capacity by leveraging AKU's extensive development network platform and infrastructure at its flagship site in Pakistan, and large-scale institutional national and international partnerships.
|
MBBS Class of 1993 Endowment | Centre for Patient Safety |
| 50,000 | Official Budget |
Total Funding Secured
$ 3,419,137 |
