Prior to her current appointment, from 2014, Dr. Khan served as the Deputy Representative in UNICEF Nepal, providing strategic guidance, leadership, implementation and monitoring of UNICEF supported-programmes including humanitarian action. She also served in New York with UNICEF, providing overall leadership on a joint UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA Global Programme for Elimination of Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus, in the Polio Eradication Programme at UNICEF's NY Headquarters, and implementing health and nutrition programmes in UNICEF Afghanistan. Dr. Khan first joined UNICEF in 1996 as Project Officer in Bangladesh. She has a Master’s degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London and a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine from Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh.