How she shines: Dr. Pasha-Razzak is an internist and an epidemiologist with over 20 years of experience as an academic physician, focusing on the health of underserved women. She has worked at Emory University, Johns Hopkins, and Penn State. She currently serves as Medical Professor, City University of New York School of Medicine.
She recently presented at the ISSA Surfaces Summit, identifying numerous cleaning chemicals and the impact on women’s health, including hormonal imbalance and increased risk of cancer.
Years in the industry: 20 years
Job responsibilities: Dr. Pasha-Razzak is a renowned researcher investigating and reporting on the impact of cleaning chemicals on women's health.
Career path: Dr. Pasha-Razzak's research focuses on women's health, specifically the conduct of randomized trials of pregnancy interventions and the establishment of community-based surveillance of maternal and child health outcomes, as well as studies on family planning, domestic violence, mental health, and substance abuse among women. From 2004 to 2017, she led the Pakistan site of the NICHD-funded Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research. She established a research group producing high-quality research with a demonstrable impact on women in low-resource settings. Since returning to the United States, she has been involved in projects to evaluate the state of adolescent health and establish maternal-newborn health surveillance mechanisms in Afghanistan. Additionally, she has been involved in work on physician wellness and burnout, as well as an RCT to assess mechanisms to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
Fun fact: People might be surprised to learn that Dr. Pasha-Razzak serves as teacher, advisor, and mentor for trainees in medicine, public health, and nursing, with a focus on epidemiological methods, trial design, mental health, and women’s health, as well as clinical education of medical students and residents in internal medicine. She has supervised graduate theses and doctoral theses for public health students. She has served as program director of the MSc Epidemiology & Biostatistics (Clinical Research) at AKU. At Penn State, she co-directed the College of Medicine's Junior Faculty Development Program and was a Master Educator in the Penn State Internal Medicine Residency Program.