Team

Dr. Sadiq Bhanbhro

Executive Director PhD (UK), MPH (UK), MScPH (Poland & France), MSc (Pak).

I am the Chief Executive and Founding Director of Integrated Research Solution (IRS). I am a Senior Research Fellow of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) at a university in the UK. I am a social anthropologist, public health professional, and experienced interdisciplinary researcher with a proven track record of success in research, evaluation, policy, programme, and social development. I have a PhD in Social Sciences from the Department of Sociology, Psychology, and Politics, Sheffield Hallam University on the political economy of honour and honour killings of women and girls in Pakistan and the UK. I have a master’s in public health (MPH) from the University of Sheffield, an MSc in Public Health (MScPH) specialisation in social and health protection from Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland, and an MSc in Anthropology from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad.

My research focuses on various topics, including Global Public Health, nutrition, gender, gender-based violence (particularly honour-based violence & honour killings), public health, health and well-being, climate justice and racism. He has more than 17 years of experience working in the academia and development sector, and I have completed several research projects in the UK, Pakistan, Indonesia, Kenya, and the Philippines. I have published 21 peer-reviewed research papers in high-quality international journals and four book chapters and presented my research at more than 35 conferences worldwide. I have conducted baseline, midline and endline surveys, qualitative, mixed-methods studies and literature reviews for several clients. I regularly publish research-based blogs in The Conversation UK, The Express Tribune Pakistan, the Friday Times, and other media platforms. In 2022, I gave a TEDx talk on honour killings of women and girls in the UK and Pakistan.

Technical Experts

Dr. Tahira Kamal

Public Health Expert

Dr. Sahib Jan Badar

Nutrition & MNCH Expert

Ghulam Nabi Nazamni

Inclusive & PWDs Expert

Dr Minhaj A Qidwai

Health Research Expert

Daman Bozdar

Education Expert

Ali Anwar

Project & Survey Expert

Noman Afzal

Data Management Expert

Ramen Munir Baloch

Environmental Epidemiology Expert

Meher M. Noshirwani

Gender & Environment Expert

Dr. Muhammad Ismail

Agriculture Research Expert

Tabinda Zaidi

M&E Expert

Mr. Imran Azeem

Entrepreneur Expert

Coordination Team

Farzand Ali

Senior Manager Operations

Sohail Ahmed Shaikh

Senior Manager HR & Admin

Rana Zahid Mahmoud

Provincial Coordinator – Punjab

Riffat Khattak

Provincial Coordinator – KPK

Mr. Shahid Hussain

Provincial – GB

Ms. Shahana Tabbassum

Livelihood Expert – Balochistan

Safdar Kazmi

Educational Expert

Sonia Fatima

Research Associate

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