Omar Amir, MPH, MD(c)

Omar Amir is from Karachi, Pakistan. He studied at Dartmouth College on scholarship where he was a national Beckman scholar for research in Organometallic Chemistry. In Pakistan, he worked with War Against Rape, an NGO based in Karachi, documenting cases of rape and violence against women. He is a basic EMT, speaks Urdu, Hindi and Arabic and is a graduate of the Master of Science program at the Harvard School of Public Health studying social epidemiology. He was awarded the Student Recognition Award from Harvard University for his work done in northern Pakistan over the winter of 2005-6.