Dr Fyezah Jehan

Dr Fyezah Jehan is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Head of Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Aga Khan University (AKU). She Chairs the Immunization Sub-committee of the affiliated hospital in Pakistan. She also serves as the youngest chair of the AKU Ethics Review Committee.

Dr Jehan is a Pediatrician and an epidemiologist, with a decade of experience of conducting research in Maternal Newborn and Child Health in Pakistan. She has contributed in her capacity as a technical advisor to WHO and UNICEF on multiple occasions in areas of nutrition, maternal-newborn morbidity and mortality, pneumonia and oxygen devices. Dr Jehan has been a part of the MRC 2019-2020 Funding Review panel and is an Associate Editor for the Cochrane Clinical Answers and the Archives of Diseases in Childhood.

She is funded by the MRC, DFID, Welcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID for her research and has collaborated with WHO on several research projects.

Her specific areas of interest and expertise are vaccines and vaccine preventable illnesses like childhood pneumonia and new approaches to its diagnosis and management, maternal health and its impact on the young infant, infections in the newborn, maternal and child mortality surveillance, human biorepository in low income settings and biomarker discovery. She is a strong advocate of young talent and a mentor and advisor to numerous undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students and senior and junior staff and faculty at her university.

Dr Jehan holds a bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery (MBBS), dual fellowships in Paediatrics and Paediatric Infectious Diseases and a Masters (MSc) in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan.