Dr. Rubina Hakeem
A. Education
Level Area of study Major Courses
Ph.D. Nutrition Diet, Exercise and CHD risk: comparison of children in UK and in Pakistan London, UK
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(Food & Nutrition) Research in Food and Nutrition
Special Problems in F&N
Human Development
Education Practice
Research methods and statistics
Clothing and Textiles
Psychology & Sociology
Community Development
Biochemistry
Housing and Home Management
Experimental Foods (cookery)
Food Service in Institutions
Urdu
English
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1. Editor in Chief, International Human Development Research Journal NURTURE [login to view URL]
2. Member Nutrition Society UK (since Jan 1998)
3. Registered Nutritionist UK since 1999 and Public Health nutritionist in 2005.
4. Member American Overseas Dietetic Association and Country Representative Pakistan.
5. Member Diabetes Care And Education group of American dietetic association.
6. Member International Federation of Home Economics (IFHE),(UN agency) (since Jan 2001)
7. Vice President Pakistan Nutrition and Dietetic Society (PNDS) (since July 2005)
8. Vice President Pakistan Home Economics Association (PHEA) (since March 2007)
9. Gen Secretary Pakistan Nutrition and Dietetic Society (PNDS) (May 2003-2005)
10. Founder Member Pakistan Nutrition and Dietetic Society (PNDS) (Est. May 2003)
11. Chair Person Board of Directors, Food and Nutrition Society (FANS) (Since March 2000)
12. Approved Ph.D. Supervisor (Nutrition) Higher Education Commission.
B. International Travel
USA. Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Malyasia, Korea, Japan, UK (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester London Birmingham and several others), India.
C. Employment Record
1. Regular Employment
Position Main Duties
Principal
At a PG college Teaching PLUS Administration and Supervision of the College
Supervising research
2. Part time honorary work & Consultations
Position Employer /
Parent Agency Main Duties
Obesity Nutrition Consultant Pharma company Guiding and public speaking about diet for weight management.
BMU Karachi Honorary Research and Clinical Nutrition Consultant.
Hon. Research Fellow Birmingham Univ. UK Research on psycho-social determinants of feeding solid foods to infants.
Nutrition Research Consultant WHO (World Health Organisation) Teaching for the nutrition component of IMCI;
Part time Research Associate CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) Teaching and Guiding
Commonwealth Fellow Govt of Pakistan & Commonwealth Scholarships Commission UK Studying for Ph.D.
Worked as a demonstrator , statistical analysis.
II. Details of Skills and Experiise
A. Language Skills:
1. Excellent Urdu Mother tongue
2. Obtained band 8 (maximum is 9) in IELTS in 1993.
3. Fair ability to understand written Arabic and some ability to speak and understand (learnt Arabic as a language at school).
4. Some working knowledge of French and elementary knowledge of German
B. Computer Literacy:
1. Excellent computer skills in word processing and spreadsheets (Word, and word perfect; excel and Lotus).
2. Excellent command in using SPSS for windows for data entry, analysis and programming analysis.
3. Good Experience of handling large data sets on SPSS
4. Experience of using Nutrisurvey, Epi-Info and ‘Anthro’ for assessing nutritional status.
5. Experience in selecting and using suitable statistical tests for data analysis
6. Some understanding of Fox pro, Visual Basic
7. Good experience of using Reference manager and ISIS (FAO) for maintaining abstracts/data sets.
8. Created and maintaining the website of FANS [login to view URL] PNDS and college
C. Good Experience of Writing proposals and obtaining grants.
D. Very good research experience and research publication record
E. Very good English-Urdu translation (with typing) skills
