Nigora Abidjanova, MD, PhD

About

Nigora Abidjanova is known as a public health specialist with extensive experience on strategy development, facilitating, programming, research and monitoring and evaluation.

Her first step in the health sector started from hygiene promotion, first aid program, drug relief distribution, prevention of the water born diseases and further expansion of her interest included palliative care, migration, harm reduction and drug demand reduction issues / HIV-related behavior change communication and services for the select populations (adolescents, drug-users, migrants and vulnerable women), training for professionals, promotion of supportive policy and community environment.

As part of recognition of her expertise and experience Nigora was selected to be the member of different coordination committees – Donors Coordination Council for Health, Donors Coordination Council on Social protection, member of Coordination council on health issues in Prison/Mandatory Detention system.

She was the first women in Tajikistan that got the rank of the Master of Sports on International checkers ( Holland type) and Russian checkers (since December 1984).

Her professional interests range from strengthening the capacity of public health system in Tajikistan and promoting the Universal Health Coverage approaches and principals to the introduction of stake holders of best international practices and institunalization of the pilot cost effective models and adoption them by the government.

Her life slogan is following : “Be the change you want to see in the world.”