Nilofer Khan Habibullah

Nilofer Khan Habibullah is a Senior Health Specialist/Economist working on AMR with the Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response and Public Health team at the World Bank HQ, based in Washington DC.

Nilofer K. Habibullah is a Board-certified Lifestyle Medicine physician, with training in public policy and health, and has over 10 years of work and research experience notably in health systems strengthening, anti-retroviral drugs resistance, reproductive, maternal and child health, and emergency preparedness and response.

At the World Bank, Nilofer has provided technical assistance on health operations mainly in West Africa, notably in Burkina Faso and Niger. Nilofer has co-authored the Gender in Infectious Disease Epidemic Preparedness and Response toolkit (2023). In her current role, Nilofer is involved in mainstreaming efforts and dissemination of the Stopping the Grand Pandemic: A Framework for Action – Addressing AMR Through World Bank Operations.

Prior to the World Bank, Nilofer served on the Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health, and the WHO Commission for the Social Determinants of Health. With a passion for grassroots organizing for health equity, Nilofer has led HIV/AIDS projects including anti-retroviral drug resistance in Southeast Asia supported by UN Women and UNAIDS, and with the National Bureau of Health in St. Lucia. Nilofer was engaged in development of the drug-resistant Tuberculosis program at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, one of India’s forerunner hospitals. She is the recipient of the Nossal Global Health Institute’s Global Health Prize, conferred by the Medical Journal of Australia, and has served on the Trainee Executive Board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

Nilofer obtained her MD from the American International Medical University, and Master’s degree in Public Policy with concentration in health from Central European University. She completed post-graduate training in clinical research and epidemiology from the Harvard Medical School, and board training with the American and International Boards of Lifestyle Medicine, with a focus on nutrition and disease prevention.

In her spare time, Nilofer can be found dancing Zouk and Kizomba, writing poetry, and exploring a nascent interest in DJing by mixing Egyptian Darbuka drums with South African Amapiano beats.