Rubina Gillani

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

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]