Ghulam Farooq Mansoor

Dr. Ghulam Farooq Mansoor is a physician and Master of Public Health. He was awarded the Australia Leadership Award Scholarship to accomplish his Master’s degree at the University of Queensland in Australia. He is currently working as Director General for HPRO where he provides strategic direction as well as leads a highly specialized team of scientific research and evaluations. He has worked with FHI 360 as the Research Monitoring and Evaluation Director for the Initiative for Hygiene Sanitation and Nutrition (IHSAN) project. He was awarded the FHI 360 Global Impact Award for outstanding efforts. Prior to that, he worked as Technical Director at the Health Protection and Research Organization, and led Design of researches in the Health System, Maternal and Child Health/Nutrition, and infectious diseases. He was principle investigator, among many, in the evaluation of Integrated Management of Childhood illnesses at the public health facilities in Afghanistan, the Health Facility Functionality and Rationality Assessment, Assessment of Drug Treatment program, The Evaluation of medical emergency services in conflict affected areas of the country, and the Midwifery Retention Evaluation in Afghanistan. He has published over 13 articles in peer reviewed journals. He was adjunct Senior Lecturer for Massey University of New Zealand One Health Fellowship program in Afghanistan 2014/2017, and national trainer of Research methodology for MOPH and MOHE. Dr. Mansoor has worked with MoPH as the Regional EPI manager in the western region of Afghanistan and as National Health Program Manager with World Vision International where he provided strategic direction to the organization as well as oversight of a plethora of health services projects in Western Afghanistan.