Dr. Zubia Mumtaz, MBBS, MPH, PhD
Dr. Zubia Mumtaz has a MBBS from Aga Khan University, Pakistan, a MPH from Harvard University and a PhD in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
Her research interests are socio-cultural and gender determinants of women’s health, associated health policy and health care delivery systems in the global health context. Her particular expertise is combining the principles of quantitative and qualitative research methods to understand in depth, how social, political and economic forces, both at the macro and micro-level, interact to determine women’s reproductive health in developing countries of South Asia.
Dr. Mumtaz has over a decade of public health experience in Pakistan and Canada, mostly in the academia, but also directly related to service delivery. She teaches courses in epidemiology, qualitative research methods and health systems analysis, both at the graduate level and in short in-service courses aimed at strengthening research and programmatic capacities of service delivery providers.
PUBLICATIONS
Mumtaz, Z. and S. Salway. (In press). Gender, pregnancy and uptake of antenatal care services in Pakistan. Sociology of Health and Illness.
Mumtaz, Z. and S. Salway. 2005.‘I never go anywhere’: Extricating the links between women’s mobility and uptake of reproductive health services in Pakistan. Social Science and Medicine 60(7): 1767-1779.
Mumtaz, Z., S. Salway, and M. Waseem. 2003. Gender-based barriers to provision of primary health care in rural areas of Pakistan. Health Policy and Planning 18(3):261-269.
Mumtaz, Z., S. Shahab, N. Butt, A Rab and A. DeMuynck. 2000. Daily iron supplementation is more effective than twice weekly iron supplementation in pregnant women in Pakistan. Journal of Nutrition. Nov 2000 130:2697-2702.
Siddiqui, S., AA. Kielmann, MS. Khan, U. Sheikh and Z. Mumtaz. 2001. The effectiveness of patient referral in Pakistan. Health Policy and Planning 16 (2): 193-198
Mumtaz, Z., E. Slaymaker and S. Salway. 2005. Condom use in Uganda and Zimbabwe: exploring the influence of gendered access to resources and couple level dynamics in S. Kishore (ed) A focus on gender: Collected papers on gender using DHS data. Calverton, Maryland, USA: ORC Macro.
Hakim A., S. Salway and Z. Mumtaz.2003. Women’s autonomy and uptake of contraception in Pakistan Asia Pacific Population Journal 18(1):63-82.
Sagheer U., A. Kielmann, Z.Mumtaz and S. Shahab. 2000. Cost of establishing and maintaining a bed in a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan Leadership in Health Services; 13(2):1-6.
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS
Mumtaz, Z. and S. Salway. 2005. Freedom to do the job: barriers to female health workers practicing in Pakistan. ID21: Communicating development research. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Online at http://www.id21.org/id21ext/h1zm1g1.html
Mumtaz, Z. and S. Salway. 2005. Trapped or treasured? Women’s access to health care. ID21: Communicating development research. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex . Online at http://www.id21.org/id21ext/h6zm1g2.html
Mumtaz, Z. and S. Salway S. 2003.Gender, pregnancy and uptake of antenatal care services. The Pakistan Workshop. Online at http://anthropology.ac.uk/PakWork2003/Abstracts/index.html
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Mumtaz, Z. and S. Salway. 2003. Gender, pregnancy and the uptake of antenatal care services in Pakistan. Paper presented at the Pakistan Workshop, University of Durham, Lake District, UK, 9-11 May.
Mumtaz, Z. and S Salway. 2002. ‘I never go anywhere’: Contesting conventional measures of women’s mobility and its impact on use of reproductive health services in Pakistan. Paper presented at the International Symposium on gender, health and politics in South Asia, IWH Heidelberg, 18-19 July.
Mumtaz, Z. et al. 2000. Female Health care workers in rural areas: issues and constraints. Paper presented at the Women's Studies: Asian Connections Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2-5 November.
Mumtaz, Z., M. Waseem, N. Usman N and S. Salway. 2000. Women working in rural areas in Pakistan. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. Los Angeles, CA, 23-25 March.
Mumtaz, Z. 2000. What is an appropriate reproductive health strategy for Pakistan: a gender perspective. Poster presented at the Annual Poster day of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London. 22 February..
Mumtaz, Z. 1999. Women’s empowerment and reproductive health. Poster presented at Popfest, Southampton 16 July.
Mumtaz, Z. 1999. What is the meaning of women’s empowerment in Pakistan. Poster presented at the Annual Poster day of the London School of Hygiene, London 24 February.
Mumtaz, Z. and A. R. Rab. 1997. Research Activities in Pakistan. Paper presented at the Second Regional GTZ Workshop, Katmandu, April.
COMMISSIONED TECHNICAL REPORTS
The Health Report 2005, David Thompson Health Region, Red Deer, Alberta. Online at http://www.dthr.ab.ca/resources/documents/reports/HealthReport2005.pdf.
Bately R, Hussein M, Khan RA, Mumtaz Z, Palmer N & Sansom K (2004) Country Studies. Pakistan: Study of Non-State providers. Mission report to Policy Division, Department of International Affairs (DFID), London, UK. Online at http://www.idd.bham.ac.uk/service-providers/downloads/stage-2/NSP%20Pakistan%20team%20report%2024-03-05.pdf
Mumtaz Z, Reichenbach, G (1998) Education - genderless or gender-sensitive. Mission report to GTZ Eschborn. Online at http://www.fachportal-paedagogik.de/fis_bildung/fis_list.html?feldname1=Schlagw%F6rter&feldinhalt1=PAKISTAN&ckd=yes&mtz=1000.
Estimating the infection rate of West Nile virus rate in Alberta. Report to Alberta Health and Wellness, 2005
Altaf, S. and Z.Mumtaz. 1992. Evaluation of the National Private Practitioners Scheme of the Family Planning Association of Pakistan. Mission Report to the Family Planning Association of Pakistan.