Dr. Saima Khan has an MBBS from Dhaka Medical College and an MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has also completed Certificate Courses on Health and Human Rights from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg’s School of Public Health and on the AIDS Epidemic Model from the East-West Center, Hawaii.

She has achieved expertise in Public Health, Project Management and Development. She joined UNAIDS in 2012; prior to which she has worked in various assignments with UNICEF, Save the Children, the World Bank, icddr,b, etc. For the last 15 to 20 years her work has focused on HIV and the related issues around it. Dr. Saima has actively applied innovation and strategic thinking in the field of preventing HIV, while upholding the human rights aspects in disease prevention efforts.

She is passionate in working alongside the most marginalized communities namely the sex workers, people who inject drugs, hijra and males who have sex with males. She has provided technical assistance to other countries in the region and tries to facilitate the best use of available information from surveillance systems, program and projections strategically for the nation. She has undertaken and developed many valuable projects which have got national and international acclamation. She has contributed to community empowerment, social exclusion, gender and development in society.