Dec 29, 2018 Dr. Aamir Jamal, Associate Professor of International Social Development & Social Policy at University of Calgary, Canada kindly visited Prime Institute of Public Health (PIPH), Peshawar Medical College (PMC), Peshawar. At PIPH, he was briefed about the education, research and public health projects of Prime Foundation.
Prof. Aamir appreciated the rich profile of PIPH in terms of conceiving and implementing huge number of community health projects with the collaboration of UN, I/NGOs and Dept. of Health and generating high impact public health research. He hailed the bridging approach of PIPH in linking academia with public health practice and their integrative approach in delivery of education, conduction of research and implementation of projects. He also shared his hallmark research re Gender Justice, Girl Child Education and NGOs perception of the local community with selected faculty members of PIPH and PMC at Community Health Sciences Dept. of PMC and responded to their questions. Towards close of the day, Prof. Aamir had a courtesy call on the Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences / Advisor Health & Medical Education of Prime Foundation and presented to him his book "The Gate Keepers: Engaging Pashtun men for Gender Justice and Girls' education". The Dean thanked him for the visit and offer of support re faculty research capacity building in Qualitative Research. He presented to him a dossier of publications by PF as a memoir of his visit.
