Zohra Kurji
Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan
Biography
Zohra Kurji is primarily Public Health Nurse working with Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) as an Assistant Professor and a section head of palliative care. She is the Chairperson for Aga Khan Local Health Board Council, Kharadar. With an undergraduate degree in nursing from the AKUH, a graduate degree in International Primary Health Care from the University of London, she also has a good exposure with the training on Global Tobacco control programme from the School of Public Health Bloomberg Johns Hopkins University, USA. In addition she is part of first faculty training program on faculty development in simulation from Boston Harvard simulation centre. She is one of the few certified Lactation consultants actively promoting breastfeeding in the communities.
Since 2007, Zohra has been engaged in the academic environment and simulation courses. Currently she is the lead facilitator for Blended learning programme at SONAM, and a member of the Simulation based CIME Committee. In addition, she works extensively for pedagogies for undergraduate and graduate curricula. She has also been invited by the Pakistan Nursing Council to develop national curriculum for PostRN and BScN programmes.
Zohra' research interests are in the areas of Public Health, Lactation, early Nutrition, Palliative, and Blended Learning and inter professional education with simulation.