Professor Fauzia Malik

Fauzia A. Malik is an Associate Professor of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA. She has 20+ years of experience designing, implementing, and evaluating behaviour and social change programs in global health research and initiatives and her work spans several countries, including Guatemala, Pakistan, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, and the USA. Prof. Malik specializes in ethnographic, participatory, and mixed-methods studies. Her work focuses on socio-cultural aspects of disease transmission and countermeasures to reduce the impact of spread, including behavioural determinants of human contact leading to infection; vaccine acceptance and uptake; and ethnographic approaches to developing novel community-based mortality surveillance. Currently, Prof. Malik leads the social and behavioural research for the Gates Foundation-funded Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network in Pakistan, studying the acceptability of minimally invasive tissue sampling in under-five mortality cases. And she collaborates with the Ministry of Public Health in Tchad, developing their National Immunization Strategy under WHO’s Immunization Agenda 2030. This includes strengthening MoH capacity through evidence-based, behavioural interventions to improve vaccination. Prof. Malik has a PhD in medical anthropology from the University of Edinburgh, UK.