Uzma Rahim Khan – WHO Collaborating Center for Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care, Pakistan
CIPA Injury
Uzma Rahim Khan, MBBS, is a senior instructor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. She is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, and has been engaged in the area of injury prevention during the past 8 years with 40 publications in indexed international journals. She has participated in surveillance of road traffic injuries treated in emergency departments in Pakistan. She was the lead investigator of a health literacy study that evaluated the impact of dissemination of injury risk information to caregivers of children younger than 5 years of age. Dr. Khan is also project manager of the Fogarty-Johns Hopkins-Pakistan International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program. The goal of this training program is to promote capacity building in injury research in Pakistan.