The project seeks to use a newly developed tool and pilot it on assessing the out of pocket expenditure to seek surgical care in Karachi, Pakistan and then check whether it could be generalized.
Haitham is doing a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management at HSPH and is a Paul Farmer Global Surgery fellow at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. He did his MD at Ain Shams University in Cairo followed by a DIC, MPH from Imperial College London after winning the UK Government Chevening Scholarship. Haitham work for the WHO, European Commission and has several publications. He also won the King Abdullah II Award for Youth Innovations and Achievements and the UN HABITAT grant award for his DIS IS ABILITY project in Egypt.