Abstract
Muhammad Ilyas is MSc in epidemiology and biostatistics from the Aga khan university, Karachi Pakistan. He is currently working as research specialist / project manager at the department of Paediatrics and child health in AKU, Karachi. He is looking after the field activates data collection and verbal autopsies in the demographic and health surveillance system. He is also supervising a multicenter large cohort study on maternal and neonatal mortalities and morbidities. last year he got the travel award but could attended due to delay in visa.