Join us to know about the reasons behind weight gain and explore strategies to manage it. Learn how to achieve your health goals without the need for restrictive diets or rigorous exercise routines. Discover practical tips and science-backed methods that can help you take control of your weight in a sustainable and enjoyable way.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Samia Altaf is a preventive medicine /public health physician. She graduated from the Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore, and the University of California at Berkeley, and is certified by the American Board of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She has worked as clinician, teacher, researcher and in health policy. Dr. Altaf was Professor of Public Health Practice at LUMS, and Director of the university’s Covid Response Plan. She is member of Board of Governors of GIKI and of Society for Promotion of Engineering, Science and Technology, and Research Associate at PIDE. She was Senior Advisor to USAID, has worked for UNICEF in Pakistan and for the Washington DC, Department of Health, in the USA. She has consulted for the Government of Pakistan, WHO, CIDA, and Swiss Inter-Cooperation. She was a faculty member at the Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi. Dr. Altaf writes for popular press and speaks about health issues. She was the 2007-2008 Pakistan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. where she wrote her book about Pakistan’s health system “So Much Aid, So Little Development: Stories from Pakistan (2011, JHU press).” An Urdu version of the same manuscript, “Tamasha-e-Ehle Karam” is expected to be published this year.