Mehtab S Karim
Professor Emeritus, Aga Khan University Faculty of Health, Arts &Sciences and Affiliated Faculty & Distinguished Senior Fellow atGeorge Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
E-mail: mehtabkarim@gmail.com
Summary
I am a demographer (MA in Social Science from the Universityof Chicago and PhD in Sociology/Demography and HumanDevelopment from Cornell University). During 1981-1998, I workedas a research consultant to the UN in New York; a ResearchFellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii; an Associate Professorin the Department of Community Health Sciences at Aga KhanUniversity in Karachi, Pakistan; and a Senior Associate in the Dept.of Population Dynamics, School of Public Health at Johns HopkinsUniversity. In 1998-99, I was awarded a fellowship by the LondonSchool of Economics to conduct research on the demographicimpact of migration between India and Pakistan. From 2000 to2008, I was a Professor and Head of the Reproductive HealthProgram at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. In 2005,at the invitation of the Office of Population Research at PrincetonUniversity, I spent a semester conducting research on immigrants toAmerica from Muslim-majority countries. I also served as a thesisco-supervisor of students enrolled in PhD programs at LondonUniversity and Carnegie Mellon University. From 2008 to 2010, I wasa Senior Research Fellow at Pew Research Center in WashingtonDC and later joined the School of Public Policy at George MasonUniversity as a Research Professor, where I am still holding theposition of Distinguished Senior Fellow. Since 2023, I have beena Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and in theFaculty of Health Sciences at Aga Khan University in Karachi,Pakistan.
On various occasions, I was a research consultant to UNFPA in NewYork and the World Bank in Washington DC. In 2023, on behalf ofUNFPA, I served as an advisor to the Pakistan Bureau of Statisticsfor planning the first digital census in Pakistan.
Besides over 70 research articles or book chapters, my otherpublications include, as co-editor/co-author, "Migration in Pakistan";"Islam, the State and Population"; "Linkages between Populationand Millennium Development Goals: The Asian Perspective";"Sharing Population and Development Research across South andWest Asia"; "The Future of the Global Muslim Population" and"Megacities: Crises and Challenges". My current research interestsinclude:
"South Asian and Middle Eastern Immigrants and Diaspora inAmerica," and "Human Development and Demographic Transitionin South Asian, West Asian and North African countries". I ama founding member of the Asian Population Association and thepresent President of the Population Association of Pakistan.
Experience
Aga Khan University and George Mason University Professor Emeritus, and Affiliated Faculty
January 2023 - Present (3 years 1 month) Karachi, Pakistan and Arlington, VA, USA
Demographic and Public Health Data Analysis.
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and GovernmentDistinguished Senior Fellow
January 2021 - Present (5 years 1 month) Arlington, Virginia, United States
Conducting research on:
"Population Growth and Human Development in South Asia"
“Demographic and epidemiological transition in West Asian and North Africancountries”
“Immigrants to the United States and their descendants from South Asian andArab countries”.
"Socioeconomic and demographic profile of Muslims in America"
Malir University of Science & Technology
Vice Chancellor and Executive Director, Centre for Studies inPopulation & Health (on sabbatical)
July 2016 - August 2020 (4 years 2 months) Karachi, Pakistan
George Mason University
Distinguished Senior Fellow and Research Professor, School of PublicPolicy
January 2011 - May 2016 (5 years 5 months)Arlington, VA USA
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http://iir.gmu.edu/people/mkarim2
•Team Leader for US State Department funded grant for establishmentpartnership with the
University of Karachi for research capacity building of junior faculty members inthe Faculty of
Management & Administrative Sciences.
•Conducted Research on:
-Managing Megacities: A case study of Karachi
-Attitudes, aspirations and entrepreneurship potentials among youth in citiesof Pakistan
-South Asian and Middle-Eastern Diaspora in USA using the 2010 US Censusand American
Community Survey data.
Pew Forum on Religion & Public LifeSenior Research Fellow
July 2008 - December 2010 (2 years 6 months)
Pew Research Center, Washington DC. Senior Research Fellow in WorldReligions Future Project. Created demographic and socioeconomic profilesof Muslims around the world and projected their future demographic trends inabout 60 countries in Asia, the Middle-East, Africa, Europe, and North & SouthAmerica. For the purpose traveled widely in most of the countries. The reportis available on
http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Religious_Affiliation/Muslim/FutureGlobalMuslimPopulation-WebPDF-Feb10.pdf
ga Khan University
Professor & Head Population & Reproductive Health ProgramSeptember 1999 - June 2008 (8 years 10 months)
• Taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in Survey?research Methods, Demographic Analysis, Social Determinants of Population Health
• MSc thesis Adviser to students enrolled in Epidemiology and Health Policy & Management. PhD thesis adviser to candidates enrolled at University of Karachi, Hamdard University and London University
• Directed large scale household health, socioeconomic and demographic surveys and prepared reports of six surveys conducted in Pakistan.
Education
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
PhD, Demography/Sociology · (1977 - 1980)
University of Chicago, Chicago IL USA.
MA, Social Sciences · (1970 - 1971)
University of Chicago
Master's degree, Social Sciences · (September 1970 - August 1971)