Aisha K Yousafzai

Dr. Aisha K Yousafzai completed her doctoral degree at the Institute of Child Health, University College London with a focus on international child health, nutrition and development. Her research has focused on understanding integrated early childhood interventions. She has 20 years of field research experience in low- and middle-income countries having lived and worked in South Asia and East Africa and led programme evaluations in Central and Eastern Europe. The goal of her research is to promote early childhood development, and to support capacity in order to develop, evaluate and improve early childhood interventions. Her work primarily focuses on:

• Developing new interventions and approaches to promote early child development with a particular interest in how to strengthen child and caregiving related outcomes through existing health, nutrition, and education systems.
• Analyzing for whom early childhood interventions work, how they work, in which contexts, and for how long.
• Understanding the implementation structures and processes for early childhood interventions to achieve sustainable impact at-scale.
• Promoting capacity development in local communities, services and systems for the effective delivery of interventions to promote early child development.

Dr. Yousafzai also serves on a number of global advisory groups on ECD for agencies such as UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank.