Syed Uzair Junaid is the Associate Director, Research Development, CERP. His interests lie in policy issues and research related to public health, nutrition, gender, employment, GIS, energy, and environment. He also serves as a technical advisor on the evaluation of market tests of maternal nutrition supplements in Pakistan. He formerly led the Women’s Mobility Program at CERP which consisted of multi-year RCT studies on the barriers to women’s labour force participation in Pakistan. He was part of CERP’s team collaborating with the health department of Punjab, Pakistan in developing its emergency health policy response to COVID-19. Uzair is a Fulbright Scholarship alumnus with a degree in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University. He also has a background in banking and is an alumnus of IBA Karachi.