Dr. Naqib Safi is an accomplished public health, emergency management and leadership expert. He currently holds the position of Senior Lecturer of Public Health at MEZCOPH and serves as a director of ERADA. Throughout his career, Dr. Safi has held various roles including Leadership coach and trainer in Australia; project lead of change management, and within the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), including Senior Emergency Coordinator in the Emergency Response Team at UNICEF's New York headquarters, where he served as the UNICEF Team Leader of the response to Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas; he has also served during numerous deployment missions as the Chief of UNICEF Office in Aden, South Yemen, Senior Emergency Advisor in Libya, Chief of Field Office in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, and Regional Emergency Adviser in South Asia Regional Office in Kathmandu, Nepal. Dr. Safi also provided support to the Hurricane Harvey response in Houston, Texas, where he helped plan a child-focused response, and he has also served as Cholera Responses Coordinator in Yemen and Team Leader of the USD 200 Million grant of the World Bank for the Yemen Emergency Cash Transfer.
Naqib Safi, worked for over a decade with the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan, as Senior Advisor to the Minister of Public Health, Director General of Primary and Preventive Medicine, National Program Manager of HIV/AIDS, National Program Manager of EPI, director of Maiwand Teaching Hospital, Director of Avecina Infectious Diseases Teaching Hospital, Director of Public Health, Parwan Province and head of public health at district level.
Dr. Safi has an extensive educational background, with a Medical Degree (MD) from Avicenna Medical Institute, Kabul University, Afghanistan, Masters of Community Health (MCommH) from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Edinburgh Business School of Heriot-Watt University of UK, a Certificate of Leadership “Leading with Purpose” from Berkeley Haas School of Business, University of California, a Certificate in Leadership from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, a Diploma in Business Administration (DBA), from Edinburgh Business School, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in HIV Management (PDM) from the African Centre for HIV Management, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.