Rubina Mumtaz, DDS, MPH

Rubina Mumtaz was born in Nairobi, Kenya to immigrant Pakistani parents (her mother is from Kashmir). She moved to Pakistan after high school, graduated with honors cum lauda from Khyber College of Dentistry, Peshawar. She has been in private dental practice for 11 years and simultaneously held a teaching position in a dental school in Islamabad. Professionally, she has held leadership roles in the Pakistan Dental Association. On a humanitarian side, she has been actively involved in community work by volunteering with organizations that deal with handicapped children, women and minor prisoners to name a few. Rubina is very passionate about women's rights and has done her masters thesis on oral health of homeless women in Boston. She completed her MPH in Family & Community Health from the Harvard School of Public Health with an interdisciplinary concentration in Women, Gender and Health. She was awarded the Student Recognition Award from Harvard University for the work done in Kashmir over the winter of 2005-6. Rubina is the Country Director of RMF in Pakistan.