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Anita Zaidi

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Director, Gender Equality Division at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Seattle, Washington, United States

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Dr. Anita Zaidi leads the Gender Equality Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, working to integrate gender across the foundation's global work with a focus on women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. She joined the foundation in 2014 and previously directed its Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases and Vaccine Development and Surveillance teams, helping advance vaccines for rotavirus, typhoid, cholera, and polio. She earned her medical degree at Aga Khan University and trained at Duke University, Boston Children's Hospital, and Harvard, and previously chaired the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at AKU in Karachi.

Experience

  1. Gates FoundationPresident, Gender Equalitycurrent2020 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
  2. Gates FoundationDirector, Vaccine Development, Surveillance, and Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases2014 — 2022Seattle, Washington, United States
  3. Aga Khan UniversityDepartment Chair of Pediatrics and Child Health2010 — 2014Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

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Who is Anita Zaidi?
Dr. Anita Zaidi leads the Gender Equality Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, working to integrate gender across the foundation's global work with a focus on women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. She joined the foundation in 2014 and previously directed its Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases and Vaccine Development and Surveillance teams, helping advance vaccines for rotavirus, typhoid, cholera, and polio. She earned her medical degree at Aga Khan University and trained at Duke University, Boston Children's Hospital, and Harvard, and previously chaired the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at AKU in Karachi.
Where does Anita Zaidi work?
Anita Zaidi is Director, Gender Equality Division at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Where did Anita Zaidi go to school?
Anita Zaidi studied at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Master of Science - MS); Harvard Medical School (Fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital); Duke University (Fellow in Medical Microbiology).

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