Sania Nishtar

Sania Nishtar is Special Assistant on Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety to the Prime Minister of Pakistan with the status of a federal minister.

How cash transfers prevent lockdown tragedies

In 2017, I was a candidate to become the next Director-General of the World Health Organization. At the 70th World Health Assembly, I stood before health ministers from around the world and warned that three things could destroy the planet: a celestial event, a third world war, or a pandemic.

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August 21, 2020
August 21, 2020

How cash transfers prevent lockdown tragedies

In 2017, I was a candidate to become the next Director-General of the World Health Organization. At the 70th World Health Assembly, I stood before health ministers from around the world and warned that three things could destroy the planet: a celestial event, a third world war, or a pandemic.