Shafique Arif

Biography

Shafique Arif is a social researcher with 19 years experience in conducting surveys in Pakistan. He holds a Masters degree in Population & Reproductive Health Research and another Masters degree in Finance. He worked with the Population Council and ShoreBank International before joining OPM.

Mr. Arif’s specific area of expertise is reproductive health, particularly maternal and newborn health research. He has experience of conducting surveys on sensitive issues like abortion, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS etc. He has expertise in survey design and implementation including questionnaire development, sampling design, data management and data analysis. He has managed national level household & facility based surveys as well as qualitative surveys in Pakistan.

He is currently working on Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in one of the provinces of Pakistan. He is also currently directing another national level household survey for the evaluation of the National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Health Care, Pakistan.