Omera Naseer

Dr. Omera Naseer is a medical graduate with expertise in public health working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pakistan as a Senior Scientist and Team lead of National Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) containment and infection prevention and control (IPC) Program. She is also a fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) in the discipline of Community Medicine. Currently, she is pursuing a one-year fellowship program in Gender Equity from Johns Hopkins University. She has coordinated and supervised phase three clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines in Pakistan and has also worked as a master trainer of IPC during the pandemic. She has participated in numerous research projects related to maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH); infectious diseases; antimicrobial resistance (AMR); non-communicable diseases (NCDs); adolescent nutrition; and clinical research. She has been involved both in fieldwork and research for childhood vaccination. She is currently working on a project titled “Institutionalizing Learning by Mainstreaming Embedded Implementation Research in Country Immunization Programmes (MAINSTREAM) in Pakistan” in collaboration with the WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. Additionally, she is working on a project funded by TEPHINET related to HPV prevalence in Pakistan and vaccine hesitancy.