Imam Yar Baig

Dr Baig is a qualified medical doctor and Medical Specialist. A Public Health Specialist, a certified Director on Governance and Masters in Business Administration with more than 25 years of extensive experience working as a Clinician, Country Director/ CEO. He has worked in diverse cultural environments in service and development contexts both in emergency and stable conditions. He has managed multidiscipline health and development programs at national and international level. He has earned established values of integrity, honesty, Motivation, commitment, profound all-round knowledge and skills. He has served, as a Public health specialist, as Medical Specialist and as Executive Director in Tertiary care and Development organizations in Pakistan and Tajikistan. People remember his services as an example in terms of creating awareness about health and social services in Pakistan and Tajikistan. He has also worked as Country Director and CEO in managing international organizations in Pakistan and Tajikistan including Hashoo Foundation, Merlin, Sightsavers, CBM Germany, IRC, RedR UK, Sarwar Foundation and Mariestopes. He pioneered evidence based decision-making process in Health sector in both Government and private organization. He is Master in developing structures, all-inclusive systems including water &sanitation, health, education, economic development, Human Resource development, Quality improvement and accountability. He has exceptional skills and experience in leading and managing National and international level programs. He is computer literate and proficient in MS; word, Excel, PP, MS project. He is an expert in public speaking and giving presentations at higher national and international level. He is a true all-rounder and acquired excellence in writing reports and proposals. Organized Healthcare Administrator with outstanding record of communicating with members of staff to provide administrative needs and requirements. Conducted meetings with staff concerning budgets, program management and compliance. Consistently achieved outstanding ratings for quality care and community presence.

• Recipient of the BBC World Challenge 08 award under the leadership of Sarah Hashwani, Chairperson Hashoo Foundation
• Participant, Clinton Global Initiative
• Studied in England, Switzerland and United States and Singapore
• Selected for workshops, seminars in USA, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Central Asia

• Pakistan
• Switzerland
• Afghanistan
• Tajikistan
• UK
• USA

• Under the Rural Health, served the entire GB with commitment and motivation
• Under Aga Khan Health, services remembered as an example in terms of commitment, motivation and dedication to people sufferings
• Contributed to quality improvement and evidence based treatment as medical specialist in DHQ hospital Gilgit, AKHS, Tajikistan, Hashoo Foundation, Sightsavers International, RedR UK, CBM, Mariestopes, Poverty Eradication Initiative and Sarwar Foundation
• Registered with Pakistan medical and dental council
• Regional Coordinator Aga Khan Youth and Sports Board, Pakistan 2006-2010
• President Ismaili professional Forum for Islamabad and Frontier Region 1996-1997
• Chairman, AKDN, Health Board, Asia and Africa 1986-1987
• Chairman, Aga Khan Health Gilgit

• Baig, I.Y. “Sustainable development through public-private cooperation." Daily DAWN, December 24, 2001.
• Baig, I.Y. “Priorities in child care. "Daily DAWN. December 12, 2001.
• Baig, I.Y. “Major health challenges in Northern Areas of Pakistan. "Daily DAWN, October 29, 2001.
• Baig, I.Y. “Priorities in neonatal health care: experiences in Northern Areas, Pakistan." Poster presentation at the Scientific Conference at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, September 20–26, 1999.
• Baig, I.Y. “Defining the problem." Primary Health Care Programme, paper selected and presented in plenary session at INCLEN workshop, Bangkok, March 1999.
• Baig, I.Y. “Redefining comprehensive health care: a case study of the Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan." In The Silver Lining, a document on people-centered health initiatives in Southeast Asia, Voluntary Health Association of India, 1997, pp. 103–13.
• Baig, I.Y. “Health system development in the mountainous areas of Northern Pakistan." Paper presented at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan International Conference, "Mountain Research: Challenges and Direction for the 21st Century." October 1996.
• Baig, I.Y. “User's role in PHC." Paper presented at a conference organized by the Institute of Child Health, London. March 1994.
• Baig, I.Y. “Emerging Health Trends in South Asia and the Global and National Response for the Next Century." Paper presented in a Roundtable Conference at Dhulikhel, Nepal. May 2000.
• Baig, I.Y. Bunyadi Sehat Ama, Book, 400 pages, Written in 1994.
• Mumford, D.B., M. Nazir, F.U. Jilani, and I.Y. Baig. “Stress and psychiatric disorders in the Hindu Kush: a community survey of mountain villages in Chitral, Pakistan," British Journal of Psychiatry (1996), 168:299–307.
• Memon Z, Khan G, Soofi S, Baig I, Bhutta Z. Impact of a community-based perinatal and newborn preventive care package on perinatal and neonatal mortality in a remote mountainous district in Northern Pakistan. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth BioMed Central 2015; 15:106.

• MBBS
• MSc (Ph.)
• GMS
• MBA

• Certified in USAID Rules & regulations: Grants and cooperative agreements inside NGOs, Bangkok, 2016
• Policies and Procedures Leadership development series (Four Modules), Roffey park Institute, forest road Horsham West Sussex, RH12 4TB UK, 2012
• Leadership Development Program, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, 2010
• Board Development Series Certificate Program (12 modules), IFC & Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance, 2008
• Health Management, Planning and Program Design (12 weeks), Swiss Tropical Institute Basel, Switzerland, 2003
• Management Methods in International Health (four-month course), Center for International Health, School of Public Health, Boston University, USA, 1993-1994
• Hospital Management, Nuffield Institute, UK, 2000

• Pakistan Medical Council, different Aluminas

MBBS, MBA, GMS,

Part of my hobbies in Hunza

A dedicated, disciplined, great learner, A trainer and a good teacher