Sania Nishtar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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cardiologist
Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1963
Place of Birth: Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Profession: cardiologist
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Sania Nishtar
- Sania Nishtar (Urdu: ????? ???? ?) (Born: 16 February 1963); SI), is a Pakistani cardiologist, author and activist who is the current Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan and BISP chairperson as well.
- Previously she served in the interim federal cabinet in 2013 overseeing public health, education and science.
- She currently co-chairs WHO’s High-Level Commission on Non-communicable diseases along with the Presidents of Uruguay, Finland and Sri-Lanka.
- She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the future of healthcare and co-chairs the U.S National Academy of Sciences Global Study on the Quality of Healthcare in low and middle-income countries.
- In addition, she also chairs the United Nations International Institute for Global Health's International Advisory Board and a member of the International Advisory Board on Global Health of the German Federal Government.Born in Peshawar, Nishtar went to medical school at Khyber Medical College and was college best graduate for 1986.
- She was inducted into the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Pakistan in 1991 after completing her residency at Khyber Teaching Hospital.
- She joined the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences as a cardiologist in 1994 and worked with the institute until 2007.
- She left the institute on sabbatical twice, first in 1996 to at the Guy's Hospital in London, and again in 1999 to pursue her Ph.D in Medicine from the King's College London, which she received in 2002.She became a fellow of Royal College of Physicians in 2005.
- While still at the institute, in 1998, Nishtar founded Heartfile, an Islamabad based health policy think tank.
- In 2013, Nishtar served in the caretaker government during the 2013 election's.
- Since 2014, Nishtar co-chair's the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity and also serves on the board of United Nations University's Institute for Global Health.
- Nishtar was a leading candidate for the director-general of the World Health Organization, to be elected in May 2017.
- She was amongst the shortlisted three nominees in the election held in January 2017, but was not successful in the final election held in 23 May 2017.
- If elected she would have been the first leader of WHO to come from a developing country.On 30 October 2018, Nishtar was appointed as BISP chairwoman.
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