How Your Food is Making You Sick and What to Do About It
We trust our food to nourish us—but what if it’s slowly making us sick? From ultra-processed ingredients to hidden chemicals and contaminated produce, our everyday meals often contain dangers we rarely see or question.
This session discusses the surprising ways modern diets contribute to chronic illnesses, digestive problems and declining immunity. We’ll explore how food systems, marketing and poor regulation shape what ends up on your plate—and what you can do to protect yourself and your family.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Samia Altaf is a preventive medicine /public health physician. She graduated from the Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore, and the University of California at Berkeley, and is certified by the American Board of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She has worked as clinician, teacher, researcher and in health policy. Dr. Altaf was Professor of Public Health Practice at LUMS, and Director of the university’s Covid Response Plan. She is member of Board of Governors of GIKI and of Society for Promotion of Engineering, Science and Technology, and Research Associate at PIDE. She was Senior Advisor to USAID, has worked for UNICEF in Pakistan and for the Washington DC, Department of Health, in the USA. She has consulted for the Government of Pakistan, WHO, CIDA, and Swiss Inter-Cooperation. She was a faculty member at the Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi. Dr. Altaf writes for popular press and speaks about health issues. She was the 2007-2008 Pakistan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. where she wrote her book about Pakistan’s health system “So Much Aid, So Little Development: Stories from Pakistan (2011, JHU press).” An Urdu version of the same manuscript, “Tamasha-e-Ehle Karam” is expected to be published this year.
This session is free and open to all. Just visit the venue to attend it.
The Black Hole
Plot 5H, Street 100, G-11/3, Islamabad.
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