Our Team
Meet the Experts Shaping Change.
Our team is the backbone of our success, bringing expertise, passion, and creativity to every project we undertake. With diverse backgrounds and shared values, we work collaboratively to achieve transformative results in research, development, and capacity building. Meet the talented individuals committed to making a meaningful impact in communities worldwide.
Dr Adnan Khan
Chief Knowledge Officer.
At RADS, our work began with a fundamental belief: the solutions to Pakistan’s most pressing challenges already exist within our communities, institutions, and lived realities. Too often, however, they remain scattered, disconnected, or overlooked.
Across the country, valuable data sits in silos, insights go unutilized, and the voices of those most affected rarely shape the policies designed for them. The divide between information and action is more than a systems failure. It deepens inequality, slows development, and, in critical sectors, costs lives.
RADS exists to bridge that divide by turning evidence into action and ensuring that knowledge informs meaningful change.
Knowledge Management Unit
Leads RADS research on burden of disease, health financing, family planning and immunization, applying rigorous quantitative methods including Bayesian small area estimation, to produce policy-relevant evidence for health and development decisions in Pakistan.
Aisha Irum
Research Manager
Leverages spatial modeling, machine learning and survey analytics to generate granular health, demographic and poverty insights, specializing in high-resolution population mapping and data workflows that turn complex data into actionable evidence for policies.
Muhammed Ibrahim
Research & Policy Specialist
Works across public health, health services, immunization and healthcare utilization at RADS, supporting core research tools, data validation, analysis, reporting and research communication, while also supporting the IRB Secretariat and ethical review process.
Zia-Un-Nisa
Research Associate
Combines satellite imagery, survey data and machine learning for public policy planning, developing small-area estimation models for population distribution and socioeconomic indicators such as district HDI to connect complex analytics with practical policies.
Zainab Bibi
Research Associate
Works on public health, poverty alleviation and program evaluation at RADS, focusing on large-scale data analysis, M&E, district-level research and Bayesian small area estimation to generate evidence that supports policy and program decision-making in KP.
Ayesha javed
Research Associate
Works on poverty dynamics and contraceptive use in Pakistan at RADS, supporting grant development and coordinating the IRB. Her work combines quantitative analysis and qualitative research to strengthen evidence and institutional research processes.
Eiman Ghani
Research Assistant
Urban Impact Lab
Syed Saddam Haider
Team Lead UIL
Aon Shams
Senior Policy & Research Associate
Raja Hasnain
Senior Monitoring and Performance Analyst
Mnahil Arshed
Monitoring and Insight Analyst
Kashif Hussain
Research Associate
Qaiser Abbas
Research Associate
Sofia Amir
Research Associate
Communications
Moqadas Hanif
Manager Partnerships, Communications & Agility
Arooba Haq
Comms Officer
Human Resources
Haris Hafeez
Manager HR
Minahail Saleem
HR Assistant
Operations
Rehan Ahmed Hashmi
Manager Operations
Syed Shamail Ahmed
Assistant Manager Operations
Muneeb Islam
Admin & Inventory Assistant
Finance
Muhammed Umair Savul
Manager Finance
Riaz Hussain
Assistant Manager Finance
Muhammed Hassan
Finance Officer
We Innovate
We develop impactful solutions with evidence-based strategies.
Research and innovation drive the success of sustainable development. Leverage our expertise to empower your organization.
RADS connects professionals, researchers, and changemakers to build transformative strategies for societal progress. Our dedication fuels a passion for impactful change, empowering communities and organizations alike. Together, we craft frameworks that inspire action and ensure measurable outcomes. Through collaboration, we address real-world challenges with innovative methodologies.
