Rubina Gillani

Rubina Gillani is a Pakistani medical doctor and public health specialist from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

Rubina Gillani
NationalityPakistani
EducationMaster in Public Health
Alma materUniversity of Leeds
Occupationmedical doctor and public health specialist
Known forCountry Manager, Fred Hollows Foundation
Board member ofChal Foundation
National Committee for Eye Health,Pakistan
AwardsEye Health Hero[1]

She trained as a general practitioner and worked for the Pakistan Air Force for six years.[2]

Gillani was the Fred Hollows Foundation's Country Manager in Pakistan[3] since 1998, but left it in 2014. As Country Manager, she did managerial work but still sees herself as a 'field worker'.

The Foundation has been working with local blindness prevention agencies in Pakistan since 1997,[4] such as The Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology and the Khyber Eye Foundation. In 1998 Gillani undertook a situational analysis w i to determine the prevalence of blindness in Pakistan. She spoke at The Foundation's IMG meeting in October 2003 in Sydney, Australia on the importance of sustainability and The Foundation's role as a development organisation.[5]

In 2006 she met Australian Prime Minister John Howard in Canberra resulting in the Australian Government’s decision to fund the eye program in Pakistan for a further 5 years.[6]

In 2009, the Australian Federal Government announced more than $5-million in extra funding for the Foundation’s program in Pakistan that is restoring the sight of thousands of people in remote areas.[7]

In February 2012, Gillani visited the Ophthalmology Department of the Khyber Teaching Hospital and handed over equipment worth Rs 5 million to the hospital.[8]

From 2015 to 2018 she served on the Board of Governors of the Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar.[9]

References

  1. International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness website Accessed March 1, 2017
  2. Fred Hollows Foundation, Through other eyes. Macmillan, 2002.
  3. "Dr Rubina Gillani - Country Manager of the Fred and Hollows Foundation in Pakistan". SBS Your Language. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  4. Overs, Marge (2012). In Fred's Footsteps: 20 Years of Restoring Sight. The Fred Hollows Foundation. pp. 116–117. ISBN 9780975687086.
  5. Seeing is Believing 24 October 2003
  6. Overs, Marge. In Fred's Footsteps: 20 Years of Restoring Sight. The Fred Hollows Foundation, 2012
  7. ABC:The World Today 18 February 2009
  8. The News February 25, 2012
  9. Yusufzai, Mushtaq (2018-04-25). "Summary sent to govt to extend terms of BoG members in public hospitals - Pakistan". The News International. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
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