Rozina Karmaliani

Long-time prominent member of the Aga Khan University, AKU, being the first alumna to become Dean of the AKU School of Nursing and Midwifery, AKU-SONAM, in 2020. Besides her current role as Professor and Dean at AKU-SONAM, she also serves as faculty member in multiple entities at AKU including the Medical College's department of Community Health Sciences, Institute for Global Health and Development and the newly minted Brain and Mind Institute. Before taking on the deanship in 2020, she has held various leadership positions in the School and has played a key role in establishing the School’s undergraduate and graduate programmes. She has been steering AKU-SONAM to use its institutional excellence to advance nursing, and to engage and develop leaders and educators in healthcare. Besides Pakistan, she has worked for the development and promotion of higher education in nursing in East Africa, Afghanistan, Syria and Egypt, through active collaboration with partners in government and non-government organisations.