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Post date: Apr 16, 2009 9:0:45 PM

With some hesitate and humility I launched this website to share my professional views and experiences. My career has found me at the interface of public health science and policy in a number of positions -- government, private sector, and academia. My career had been devoted to issues of disparities and inequalities in health and social conditions, with a view toward liberation of human potential for those who have been limited by circumstances in which they find themselves. I have also devoted a bit of this site to my personal life.

I thank my teachers and mentors over the years for guiding me. Those include Allan Young, a luminary in medical anthropology; Gail Fisher a superb federal bureaucrat who taught me to survive; Mohammed Akther, the global public health leader; Maria King, author who taught me to write; and Dr. M. Ayub Khan, father of health statistics in Pakistan. I owe a great debt of intellectual gratitude to Anthony Giddens, who I rank as the leading social thinker of our day. I have read his work consistently since graduate school but have not had the privilege of meeting him. I also want to thank my mother and father, Despina and Paul, whose devotion and love cannot be measured or repaid.