Batool, a 2011 MMEG grantee, is a public health and global mental health professional serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at Aga Khan University, Pakistan. She earned a DrPH in public health from Boston University while on a Fulbright scholarship. She also received an MMEG grant to support her doctoral thesis work. Batool’s research has been published in various local and international journals.

She has been serving as a consultant for public health assignment including project

evaluation and has conducted training classes on a variety of topics, including voluntary counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS (VCT), reducing stigma and discrimination for HIV/AIDS, life skills development, and social and behavior change communication.