Rubina Gillani

{{short description|Pakistani medical doctor}}

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Rubina Gillani is a Pakistani medical doctor and public health specialist from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

She trained as a general practitioner and worked for the Pakistan Air Force for six years.Fred Hollows Foundation, Through other eyes. Macmillan, 2002.

Gillani was the Fred Hollows Foundation's Country Manager in Pakistan{{Cite news|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/urdu/en/audiotrack/dr-rubina-gillani-country-manager-fred-and-hollows-foundation-pakistan|title=Dr Rubina Gillani - Country Manager of the Fred and Hollows Foundation in Pakistan|work=SBS Your Language|access-date=2018-02-15|language=en}} since 1998, but left it in 2014. As Country Manager, she did managerial work but still sees herself as a 'field worker'.

The Foundation has been working with local blindness prevention agencies in Pakistan since 1997,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t16MqnuKW1IC&dq=%22Rubina+Gillani%22+pakistan&pg=PA116|title=In Fred's Footsteps: 20 Years of Restoring Sight|last=Overs|first=Marge|date=2012|publisher=The Fred Hollows Foundation|isbn=9780975687086|pages=116–117|language=en}} such as The Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology and the Khyber Eye Foundation. In 1998 Gillani undertook a situational analysis w i to determine the prevalence of blindness in Pakistan.

She spoke at The Foundation's IMG meeting in October 2003 in Sydney, Australia on the importance of sustainability and The Foundation's role as a development organisation.[http://fred-hollows.e-newsletter.com.au/link/id/7c7a5e96c85e2187f03d/page.html Seeing is Believing 24 October 2003]

In 2006 she met Australian Prime Minister John Howard in Canberra resulting in the Australian Government’s decision to fund the eye program in Pakistan for a further 5 years.Overs, Marge. In Fred's Footsteps: 20 Years of Restoring Sight. The Fred Hollows Foundation, 2012

In 2009, the Australian Federal Government announced more than $5-million in extra funding for the Foundation’s program in Pakistan that is restoring the sight of thousands of people in remote areas.[http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2494660.htm ABC:The World Today 18 February 2009]

In February 2012, Gillani visited the Ophthalmology Department of the Khyber Teaching Hospital and handed over equipment worth Rs 5 million to the hospital.[http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-7-94503-KTH-gets-Rs5m-equipment The News February 25, 2012]

From 2015 to 2018 she served on the Board of Governors of the Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar.{{cite web | last=Yusufzai | first=Mushtaq | title=Summary sent to govt to extend terms of BoG members in public hospitals - Pakistan | website=The News International | date=2018-04-25 | url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/308973-summary-sent-to-govt-to-extend-terms-of-bog-members-in-public-hospitals | access-date=2020-12-08}}