The Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health aims to support the introduction, scale-up and further piloting of high quality and high impact interventions to improve Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MNCAH) in Pakistan by harnessing the potential of both public and private sectors, coupled with introduction of women and girls empowerment intervention.
The department is carrying out a cross-sectional study titled Nash wo Numa which aims to identify underlying factors of linear growth and the impact of undernutrition in children aged between 9-15 years in Matiari, Pakistan. It primarily aims to determine the prevalence, severity and the factors behind impaired linear growth among girls between 9-14.9 years of age and boys 10-15.9 years of age living in Matiari.