Faramarz Jahanbeen, MD, MPH, EMBA

Dr. Faramarz Jahanbeen is an MD from Afghanistan whose work has focused on public health and access to quality healthcare as a fundamental human right, with a specialization in women and children’s health. He received his MD from Kabul Medical University and Masters in Business Administration from Preston University in Islamabad, Pakistan. He also has a Masters in Public Health from the Institute of Management Sciences in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Dr. Jahanbeen is currently an FXB Affiliate, having initially joined the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights as a Research Fellow in 2023. Prior to that he was at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) where he focused on humanitarian and public health issues. Dr. Jahanbeen has extensive experience leading large healthcare and humanitarian organizations in several provinces of Afghanistan. His work there included issues of child protection, women’s empowerment and harm reduction, nutrition, disabilities, and infectious diseases. He is a consultant for and co-founder of the Afghan branch of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF-Afghanistan), an organization that focuses on mobilizing men and boys to further women and girls’ rights.

Dr. Jahanbeen is also a representative of Afghanistan’s Civil Society for Global Financing Facility (GFF), a global funding mechanism of support to every woman and every child, launched by the World Bank. He served as a member of UN-OCHA’s advisory board, a governance body that supports the management of the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF). He has also served in various humanitarian leadership roles, including as technical manager for the consulting group Particip GmbH and the Royal KIT Institute, as the Deputy Director General at Solidarity for Afghan Families, an NGO with a mission of combating disease, poverty, social injustices and illiteracy in order to foster a more developed society for Afghan families, and as an Advisor to the Afghan Deputy Minister for Martyrs and the Disabled.