Vaccination against Polio, Pakistan, July 2016 (c) Sanofi Pasteur; Almeena Ahmed; Sanaullah Afridi)

Pakistan has struggled with addressing multiple health phenomenon, from polio to HIV, and their effects on children. Kulsoom Khan, an expert at The Global Fund for Children, will outline the barriers for accessing information and services around children's health and its impact on children and youth. She will discuss the role that the government, non-government organizations, and the corporate sector can play to improve access to information and services around children's health.

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Speaker

Kulsoom Khan leads Global Fund for Children's grantmaking and capacity building in Asia. Kulsoom has extensive experience in social innovation and a deep commitment to developing holistic approaches for child protection and empowerment. Prior to joining GFC, Kulsoom led several initiatives at Ashoka, including managing global relations with Asia offices, developing the Global Fellow Security program, and expanding Ashoka in Pakistan. During this time, she was responsible for sourcing cutting-edge social innovations on the ground, creating and implementing security trainings for human rights defenders, and building a supportive environment for social entrepreneurship through fundraising and network creation. Kulsoom also helped launch the Child Rights Initiative with Vision, a citizen sector organization that increases awareness on child abuse and develops child protection interventions in Pakistan, and she currently serves on its Board. Kulsoom received her master's and bachelor's degrees in law and society from American University. She is fluent in Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi.

Shamila N. Chaudhary (moderator) was appointed President of the American Pakistan Foundation in August of 2019. She is an international affairs analyst specializing in U.S. foreign policy with a focus on U.S.-Pakistan relations. She is a Senior South Asia Fellow at New America; and a Fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute. She served in the Obama administration as Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan on the National Security Council from 2010-2011.