World Health Organization
National Polio Surveillance Project
R K Khanna Tennis Statdium
Africa Avenue, Safdarjung Enclave
New Delhi
India
110029
jafariha@npsuindia.org
Biographical Sketch:
6/07-Present: Project Manager, The National Polio Surveillance Project - India
8/06-6/07 : Regional Advisor, Polio Eradication & Vaccine-Preventable Disease Surveillance, WHO
Regional Office for South East Asia, New Delhi
Currently lead acute flaccid paralysis and poliovirus surveillance as well as extensive monitoring of polio mass vaccination campaigns and routine immunizaiton activities in India.
4/04-7/06 :Director, Global Immunization Division, National Immunization Program (NIP), CDC
6/02-3/04 :Chief, Polio Eradication Branch, Global Immunization Division, NIP
9/96-6/02 :Medical Officer, Polio Eradication, WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
(WHO/EMRO) stationed in Alexandria and Cairo Egypt and Islamabad, Pakistan
Published over 50 scientific papers and book chapters on polio eradication, other vaccine-preventable diseases and on the subject of pathogenesis and epidemiology of invasive bacterial diseases.