Omar Khan is a recent MPH graduate with a several years of public sector experience in health system quality improvement and health financing, with a focus in low- and middle-income contexts.
At Results for Development (R4D), Mr. Khan is a senior program associate on the market shaping practice. He provides technical and programmatic support to the Maternal and Child Wasting (MCW) project, which works to increase access to nutrition commodities and combat malnutrition in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Prior to R4D, he worked as a health economics and policy consultant at the Health Finance Institute, working to utilize blended finance approaches to addressing the noncommunicable disease gap. Prior to that, he served as a quality management officer at the Malawi Ministry of Health and Population, through Global Health Corps. In that role, he drafted a five-year health facility accreditation roadmap and finalized the quality of pediatric care standards, with the goal of improving the health care quality in Malawi.
Mr. Khan holds a master’s in public health (with a focus on health management) from the Harvard School of Public Health. He also received a BA from Columbia University in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. He is a fluent English speaker.
