Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is the inaugural Robert Harding Chair in Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Director of Research at the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health, and the Founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Women and Child at Aga Khan University in Pakistan.

He is a Distinguished National Professor of the Government of Pakistan, Co-Chair of the Global Countdown for 2015 and 2030 Initiative, Co-Chair of the Maternal and Child Health oversight committee of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, and Chairman of the Coalition of Centers in Global Child Health.

Zulfiqar leads large research groups based in Toronto, Karachi, and Nairobi with a special interest in research synthesis, scaling up interventions in community settings, and implementation of RMNCAH&N interventions in humanitarian settings.