Dr. Juma Khan “Nasir Khairzada”

Dr. Juma Khan Naser Khairzada (Program Director) is a Medical Doctor (MD) and is bearing a Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) with more than 20 years of working experience in the health sector with, MoPH, UN agencies, INGOs, ARCS, IFRC, private sector and National NGOs (SAF, BDN, CAF, ORCD, and OPHA). He has wonderful experience in the effective design of the health projects, proper planning, developing the policies and guidelines, regular and in-time monitoring of the BPHS and EPHS projects. He has been dominant in the establishment of community health networks through which BDN, SAF has indirectly supervised and monitored CHW activities, and strengthened community-based health care interventions largely. He has gained outstanding experience in project management i.e. planning, the definition of objectives and indicators, budgeting and financial reporting as well as relations with donors “USAID, EC, World Bank, IFRC, ON, WFP, UNICEF, WHO, SCI, UNDP, GF, and UNFPA. He is also the country focal point of Afghanistan CSOs for Global Financing Facility (GFF), and the steering committee member in the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) for GFF which is a global network. At the national level, he is a member of the High-Level Oversight Committee chaired by Minister of MoPH and a member of the GFF technical working Group chaired by Deputy Minister of MoPH in planning and policy.

He attended the following National and global workshops and conferences.

Dr. Khairzada also has been chaired the Coordinated Procurement and Distribution System of Pharmaceuticals task force (CPDS) in Afghanistan.