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The Lancet, Volume 379, Issue 9832, Page 2141, 9 June 2012 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60932-5

Zulfiqar Bhutta: patriotics and paediatrics
David Holmes

Nobody is really sure what Samuel Johnson had on his mind when he said that “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”, but it's a safe bet that he wasn't referring to the kind of patriotism practised by Zulfiqar Bhutta. From his base at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Bhutta has gone about the task of improving child and maternal health in his native and beloved Pakistan with missionary zeal, while at the
same time putting child survival and maternal and child undernutrition front and centre on the world stage.

Bhutta's patriotism is a complex blend of duty, loyalty, pride, and concern for a country that faces existential challenges. “Pakistan has many dimensions of poverty”, says Bhutta in his rich, resonant baritone, each word delivered with a gentle precision. “There is the poverty that you and I can see out on the streets, a poverty of means”, he continues, “but there is also an enormous poverty of hope and poverty of imagination, even among the learned classes. People
think there are just no innovative solutions.”

Needless to say, Bhutta is not one of those people. “In my heart of hearts I feel very optimistic”, he says. “Even amongst the conflict and the societal fissures, I see the seeds of social change.” There is certainly no doubting Pakistan's resilience. In the devastating earthquake of 2005 and the floods of 2010, Pakistan went through two humanitarian catastrophes and yet emerged unbroken with minimal assistance from the outside world. Bhutta had first-hand experience of organising the response to both disasters, and took heart from the compassion and collectivism he witnessed in their aftermaths. “I haven't given up on the hope that from the ashes we see around us will rise a phoenix one day, and there will be good governance, and there will be leadership, and Pakistan will emerge stronger than before”, he says. Whatever the Pakistan of tomorrow looks like, Bhutta, together with
his wife and academic collaborator Shereen, will have played a major role in shaping it for the better. From an educated and
forward-looking family, a young Bhutta had his eyes opened to the “grinding poverty, undernutrition and inequities of a nature I'd never seen before” during a study tour of what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1969, the year before he went to university. 7 years later he graduated from the Khyber Medical College at the University of Peshawar with the title of “graduate of the year” to his name, and embarked on a journey that has transformed maternal and child health
in Pakistan and internationally.

After overcoming the withering condescension that met his first efforts to train in paediatrics in the UK, Bhutta returned home in the mid-1980s at a time when neonatal paediatrics was still virtually unrecognised in Pakistan. Many would have balked at the scale of the challenge, but Bhutta saw it as an opportunity to build something from the ground up. “We [the first-person singular rarely crops up when Bhutta talks about his work] capitalised on the fact that we started out around the time when people were really clamouring for some work in this area, and we were able to walk the talk. So not only did we do
the advocacy and talk about what needed to be done, but we were actually able to demonstrate in country that it could be done.”

“He has these unique opportunistic and strategic abilities with which he has influenced change where it matters, even in limited resource settings”, says Zohra Lassi, a colleague of Bhutta's at the Aga Khan University and one of hundreds to have trained under him. At the same time as doing randomised trials on a range of different interventions—from community-based interventions to the application of chlorhexidine to neonatal umbilical cords—Bhutta was able to build the evidence base that has underpinned improvements in child and maternal health while simultaneously building the capacity to deliver them. The Division of Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University, which Bhutta helped found from scratch, now has more than 1000 members, making it the largest in Asia.

“His commitment is an excellent demonstration of what can be achieved in building research capacity within a developing county”, says Alvin Zipursky, Chair and Scientific Director of the Programme for Global Paediatric Research, who notes that Bhutta's international importance is evidenced by his appointment to the independent Expert Review Group
(iERG) that was created earlier this year by the UN Secretary General to follow up the work of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health and the Commission on Information and Accountability. And from his “slightly dissenting” Comment on new figures published in The Lancet for global, regional, and national causes of child mortality, it's clear that Bhutta will be pushing to find ways of “going beyond the mortality numbers, to try to understand some of the social determinants and the dimensions of what the numbers mean. Without addressing those fundamental social determinants, trying to achieve change through technical interventions is going to be very difficult.”

“I'm a global citizen in many ways”, says Bhutta of his role on the iERG, “and I recognise the primacy of my responsibility to my own country, but also now increasingly the responsibility to the developing world at large. So while I have a very nationalist attitude I also see that the globe is shrinking, and that many of the things that we've achieved in Pakistan need to be emulated in other parts of he world.” If Johnson was right about patriotism, the world needs more scoundrels like Bhutta.

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Dear IFIC Member Society Representative,

 

Preparations for the Twelfth IFIC Congress are progressing according to schedule.

 

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Dear Colleagues,

 

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