About Rabia
Interdisciplinary background in vaccinology, research, data visualization, and digital storytelling. Drawing on international academic experience and community-based initiatives, I develop evidence-informed communication, digital campaigns, and engagement strategies that advance health, education, gender inclusion, and social impact.
My recent work includes a Public Health Polio Dashboard examining global eradication trends; storytelling and media support for women-led MMA initiatives promoting youth engagement and empowerment; education and welfare-focused communication projects; psychology and community outreach content; and digital campaigns designed to make complex issues accessible, engaging, and actionable for diverse audiences.
English
Native or bilingual
Urdu
Native or bilingual
French
Basic
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- K2fromK2 (Self)CreativeJune 2024 - Today (2 years and 1 month)
- Launched @K2fromK2 as a personal digital storytelling and data visualization venture to house my independent projects, creating a public identity for my work and expanding opportunities for collaboration in social impact spaces.
- Provide independent communications, storytelling, and digital engagement services supporting nonprofit welfare, education, and community empowerment initiatives
- Conceptualize and develop digital storytelling assets to mobilize communities around social causes, including animal rescue missions, youth empowerment initiatives, and women-led community events
- Apply data visualization skills to design dashboards using R, Flexdashboard, and compelling narrative techniques
- Produced a documentary-style impact reel for the Pakistan Education Foundation (PEF) a nonprofit NGO est.1986, capturing the work of volunteer tutors at their Kiran Centres. Transformed field interviews and observational notes into an advocacy-ready narrative that strengthened PEF’s digital outreach. Acquired books in the book-collection campaign drive for the beneficiaries of the PEF scholarship
- Created social media content to promote the first women's MMA community in Pakistan. Served as announcer and promoter for a youth grappling showcase organized by the national women's MMA champion- a sole woman led collaborative to independently promote combat and active sports for youth especially girls in the community.
- Created the Polio Surveillance Data Dashboard (2025), an interactive R Flexdashboard visualizing global Polio trends since 1980, with a focus on last-mile countries. Applied public health knowledge and data storytelling to translate epidemiological patterns into accessible insights for advocacy.
- Co-developing the IRBC (a women led community book club) Digital Bookshelf, a community-driven platform promoting literacy and digital resource sharing by showcasing the readers' book selections, personable experiences and promoting reading culture.
- Alkhidmat FoundationDigital Content CreatorJuly 2022 - December 2023 (1 year and 5 months)
- Voluntary Social Media content creation for 2022 Flood Relief Response in Pakistan
- Instagram Reels creation
- Narrations for social media videos
- Volunteer position for raising awareness, campaigning for funds for flood relief and other social welfare projects of the welfare organization, mainly climate related/ natural disasters
- Atta ur Rahman School of Biosciences at National University of Sciences & Technology -NUSTResearch InternRESEARCHJuly 2022 - March 2023 (8 months)Pakistan
- Research Intem at Molecular Immunology & Virology Lab as a project collaboration with Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and PIMS Hospital
- Liaison and sample collection from the two major hospitals (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Combined Military Hospital and Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences) in Islamabad, Pakistan
- Investigated HPV as an etiologic factor for Bladder & Ovarian Cancer in Pakistani Population by molecular techniques- DNA amplification
- Assessed for various type specific HPV in cancer samples with the aim to highlight whether screening and/or HPV vaccination can improve cancer prognosis
- Published research, ‘Detection of human papillomavirus in archival bladder and ovarian cancer samples’ in peer reviewed journal Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, on June 2023, in Volume 22, 101339
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Education
- MSc full mobility EMJMD+ scholarship in Leading Immunology & Vaccinology Education -LIVEUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Belgium (M1): University of Antwerpen, France (M2): Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université Jean Monnet2021Erasmus Mundus Full Merit Scholar (LIVE Master) | Joint degree graduate from 5 top European universities (Spain, Belgium, France). Competitively selected as the sole candidate from Pakistan. Trained in immunology, infectiology, public health policy, and vaccinology legislation.
Certifications
- Data Visualization & Dashboarding with R SpecializationJohns Hopkins University (Coursera)2025
- Risk Communication in Public Health EmergenciesRegion 6 South Central Public Health Training Center2023
Skill set
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