About
Our Aims:
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To understand and explore ways to strengthening current healthcare quality, management and public health (including health protection) in the Pakistan health system.
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To explore the primary and secondary care interface in the governmental, private and NGO sectors.
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To identify opportunities for collaboration with PHE and NHS Scotland with health agencies in Pakistan.
N2N is a charitable trust registered with the Charities Commission (registration number 1123805 - view details).
We are a member of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict coalition - details avaialable at https://www.safeguardinghealth.org/members.
This is a group of international non-governmental organisations working to protect health workers, services, and infrastructure from the effects of conflict. The coalition has three main objectives:
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Raise awareness of the problem of attacks on health workers, facilities, transport systems, and clients.
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Work with national and global organisations to strengthen the documentation of such attacks and increase accountability for violators.
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Empower local groups to play a safe, active role in documenting attacks and demanding accountability at national and international levels.
Professor Mahmood Adil
Chairman
Medical Director - Information Services Division (Scotland) & Health Protection Scotland NHS National Services Scotland
Mahmood is chair and co-founder of N2N Health Partnership.
He has 25 years of clinical, public health and executive management experience and delivered on senior leadership positions in the NHS and USA (Yale University). He is also adviser on healthcare improvement to a number of countries globally. Currently, his responsibilities encompass to develop the best health intelligence for Scotland and build partnerships for the use of these valuable data/digital assets in improve outcomes nationally and internationally. He also chairs the Research & Innovation Group of the ISD.
Prior to joining NSS, he was the National Quality and Efficiency Advisor at the Department of Health (England) and led initiatives which created value in the NHS.
He is an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Directors and the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (USA). He has higher qualifications in medicine, paediatrics, public health, economics, management and health informatics fields.
Dr Andrew Furber
Trustee
Dr Andrew Furber is the Centre Director for Public Health England in Yorkshire and the Humber
He was previously Director of Public Health (DPH) for Wakefield Council and President of the UK Association of Directors of Public Health. He was previously DPH in North Lincolnshire and a Consultant in Public Health in Sheffield and within the regional public health team.
Andrew originally trained as a GP before working in international development for 7 years latterly with the Department for International Development.
His international work ranged from training village health workers to advising on national policy.
He is on twitter at @FurberA.
Mr Sabir Hussain
Treasurer
Finance Manager - Strategic Projects (Regions and Centres) for Public Health England (PHE)
Sabir is the Treasurer for N2N Health Partnership.
He has worked in the Civil Service for over 20 years and has 15 years of Business and Finance management experience in Public Health, working at a regional level for Department of Health and Public Health England (PHE).
Sabir’s current role in PHE is to undertake validation and assurance work on the Ring-fenced Public Health grant allocated to Local Authorities and provide a Finance Business Partner role for several business units in PHE.
Sabir holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Applied Accounting and is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
In his spare time Sabir enjoys martial arts and travelling with family and friends.
Professor Paul Johnstone
Vice Chairman
Regional Director (North) for Public Health England
Professor Paul Johnstone is the regional Director (North) and an executive director for Public Health England. Previously he was Director of Public Health for NHS North of England (2011-2013) and then Regional Director of Public Health for Yorkshire & Humber (setting up its first regional team 2002-11). Since joining the NHS in 1983, Paul has worked as a hospital doctor, GP and executive director. His research interests are in evidence based healthcare, primary healthcare, health inequalities and global health.
Paul has also extensive international experience, working with refugees in Pakistan and Sudan, then for DFID and a health adviser in the West Indies. Recently he worked in Sierra Leone for PHE as senior technical advisor for WHO and led work advising the Government in re-establishing its health protection role at the end of the Ebola crisis. This work also led to a multi-million pound DFID funded project to support the country’s long term construction.
Mr Abdul Razaq
Trustee
Abdul Razaq is a senior Public Health professional and previously a Director of Public Health from 2003-2018.
Abdul has nearly twenty five years of Public Health experience and has held senior Executive positions within Local Government and the NHS over the last decade. His extensive experience and portfolio includes leading on areas within Greater Manchester devolution programmes such as dementia, cancer early detection and awareness, viral Hepatitis and Public Health intelligence.
Abdul has held the positions of chair of the North West Directors of Public Health Network, the North West region Executive lead of the national Association of Directors of Public Health and previously held the position of Chair of the Greater Manchester Directors of Public Health.
At a national level, Abdul sits on the Public Health England Global Health Committee and was Chair of Food Active, a North West collaborative on tackling key determinants of unhealthy food leading to non communicable disease. He is interested in developing the new dimension of commercial determinants of health from global policy to local action.
Ms Azaraiah Jenny
Projects & Communications
Azariah provides project management, administration and communications support to the North to North Health Partnership since 2016.
Azariah has a Master’s Degree in Global Public Health, Law and Governance from Queen Mary University in London. Since graduating, she has worked as a civil servant in public health at a North Regional level for Public Health England and in Global Health at Department of Health and Social Care, on a £50m Global Innovation Fund to tackle Anti-microbial Resistance for the benefit of lower and middle income countries.
Azariah’s current role is working in the National Health Inequalities team at Public Health England.
Azariah enjoys travelling, climbing and fencing in her spare time.