During my academic journey at AKU, I developed several new courses and modules for various academic programs including undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and Continuing Educational Programs (CEP).

I have developed a new graduate program on ‘Master of Science in Healthcare Management’. The Aga Khan University’s Department of Community Health Sciences in the Medical College is launching this 39-credit hour ‘Master of Science in Healthcare Management (MSHM)’ Programme in 2025. The MSHM programme’ s goal is to develop leaders and role models in healthcare delivery systems who are capable of effectively planning and managing healthcare institutions. The MSHM programme is recognised by the Higher Education Commission in Pakistan. This degree at AKU will provide the participants cutting-edge leadership and management skills to maintain and improve the quality of our healthcare system while keeping costs under control. 

The MSHM web site link is MSHM program Link

https://www.aku.edu/mcpk/Pages/mshm.aspx

I have also designed three new 3-credit hours elective courses for the Master of Health Policy & Management (MHPM) program namely ‘Reproductive Health: Policy & Program Management’ and ‘Hospital Management & Administration’. 

In the post-graduate program, I have designed two modules including ‘Human Resources for Health (HRH)’ and ‘Health Management Information System (HMIS)’.

In UGME, I designed, directed, and facilitated courses on ‘Health Systems’, ‘Primary Healthcare’ and ‘Reproductive Health’. I also facilitated sessions in various other courses including ‘Community Health and Development (CHD) and ‘Epidemiology and Biostatistics (EB)’. In UGME year IV, I have been facilitating and mentoring students rotating through CHS clerkship.  As an outcome of this mentoring, Year IV students published papers based on the research project they did during year IV CHS clerkship.

List of publications where Narjis Rizvi mentored Under-Graduate & Graduate Students for public of their research activities

I have developed and implemented following CME courses:

1. International Course on ‘Hospital Management’: Designed an international face to face/online course on ‘’Hospital Management’ in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) during 2021.  This course was successfully piloted and then two more courses were offered during the same year. These courses received overwhelming response, trained more than 100 hospital managers, from Pakistan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, Kenya, and Somalia.  These courses were extremely well evaluated.

2. ‘Health Planning’ Course: Designed a course on ‘Health Planning’ to build capacity of district/health managers from the Department of Health, Government of Baluchistan & Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under the umbrella of Foundation for Health & Empowerment (F4HE).   This course was conducted in 2022.

3. ‘Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)’ Course: Designed a course on ‘Monitoring & Evaluation’ to build capacity of provincial/program managers from the Department of Health, Government of Sindh funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2022.

4. ‘National Curriculum of Midwives of Pakistan’: Designed the national curriculum of the mid wife programme of Pakistan under the umbrella of National Maternal, Neonatal & Child Health Programme of Pakistan funded by UK Aid & Aus Aid.

5. ‘Public Health Research on Surgical Diseases’ Workshop: Designed a workshop on ‘Public Health Research on Surgical Diseases’ in 2021 as one of the Pre-Conference Workshops in the 7th Annual Surgical Conference.

6. ‘AKU Challenge (Scholarship) Programme-Community-Based Research: Designed a course on ‘Community-Based Research’ for the ‘AKU Challenge (Scholarship) Programme in 2016.  This has been a residential programme offered to HSSC (pre-medical) students, 2016-2024.

7. ‘Addressing Governance, Gender, and Disaster in a Fragile Health Systems’: Designed and directed a course titled ‘Addressing Governance, Gender and Disaster in a Fragile Health Systems’ for senior public and private sector health managers.  The course was offered from CEP platform in 2012. 

8. ‘Health System’s Management’ Course: Designed and conducted this course on ‘Health System’s Management’.  This was one of the flagship courses of CEP that had been conducted for more than a decade to build the capacity of health program/project managers from public, private, and non-governmental sectors.

9. ‘Gender and Gender-Based Research Methodologies’: Designed and conducted this course on on ‘Gender and Gender-Based Research Methodologies’ for the faculty of Sociology departments of Pakistani universities and the staff of National Commission on the Status of Women in 2005 funded by United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

10. ‘Gender and Qualitative Research’: Designed and conducted this course on ‘Gender and Qualitative Research’ for the workers of different NGOs working on women and gender in 2004 funded by Mubariza (Gender network). 

In addition to these courses, I also participate as panelist at various fora on social determinants of health, gender sensitization and health system challenges.