[6][7] Zafar Mirza has served as the Director of Healthcare System Development at the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean.

He is a medical doctor with post-graduate degree in Public Health in Developing Countries from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

For 12 years before joining WHO, he was a founder executive director of The Network for Consumer Protection in Pakistan.

[8] Mizra has experience working at national, regional and global levels in public and private health sectors.

[11] On 29 July 2020, Mirza announced that he was resigning from his post as Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health.