Vaccines, Diagnostics, Devices, and Global Heath
Oct 05, 2026 6:40 PM
Dr. Taruni Khurana & Dr. Sadaf Khan of PATH
Vaccines, Diagnostics, Devices, and Global Heath
Taruni Khurana, MS, PhD, MPH, is the deputy director for PATH’s Global Health Programs division. In this role, she leads a team of experts addressing complex health challenges in low- and middle-income countries. She is responsible for the strategic direction, business development, technical quality, and operational efficiency of multiple global health programs, focusing on generating and translating evidence into action. She works closely with internal and external stakeholders, including donors, governments, partner international nongovernmental organizations, and communities, to ensure alignment, coordination, and accountability.
Before her current position, Dr. Khurana held the role of PATH’s deputy director for the Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases program, leading the global portfolio management and business development teams, and was key in building strong relationships with new donors and partners. Prior to joining PATH, she was the chief operating officer at Shifra, an Australian health start-up that addresses barriers to reproductive health, where she focused on achieving organizational goals through business analysis, strategic partnerships, and managing operations. Additionally, she worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization and previously served as a neuroscientist in India.
Dr. Khurana holds a Master of Science and a PhD in neurobiology and ecophysiology of insect flight from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India. She also holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University and serves as a board member for Shifra.
Sadaf Khan, MBBS, MPH, DrPH, has more than 15 years of experience in international public health. She is Senior Program Officer with PATH’s Maternal, Newborn Child Health& Nutrition team, where her work has focused on research and programming around innovations for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), maternal and perinatal infections, and family planning.
Dr. Khan's work at PATH has focused on improving health outcomes for mothers, infants, and children through the introduction and scale-up of innovative technologies and service delivery approaches that strengthen health systems in low- and middle-income countries. She has led efforts to introduce and expand the use of maternal vaccines and currently supports initiatives to deploy novel technologies for environmental surveillance of the poliovirus in Pakistan. Prior to her work in global health, Dr. Khan practiced as both a pediatrician and a primary care physician in Pakistan.
More recently she has worked on evidence needs around introduction of maternal vaccines and assessing the path to scale for essential MNCH interventions. Her country experience includes work in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda and Zambia. Dr. Khan trained and worked as a physician in Pakistan and was formerly affiliated with the Ziauddin Medical University as Assistant Professor Community Health Sciences. She holds Master and Doctor of Public Health degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), from Dow Medical College, University of Karachi, Pakistan.