Is there a need for graduate-level programmes in health data science? A perspective from Pakistan.

Competing Interests: ZH received support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, VITAL Pakistan Trust, and Islamic Development Bank. RC received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF 1845487), the National Institutes of Health (NIH U2RTW012121), Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana via a grant awarded to New York University (New York, NY, USA), and from Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ, USA) to attend the Public Health Technology Meeting in collaboration with New America Foundation. ZS received support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (INV-021944, D43TW011625), the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research, Duke University (Durham, NC, USA), Certara, and the Population Health Research Institute. ZS also received support as an advisor for participation in the Heart Failure Publication Committee meeting from Cytokinetics. AW and AAB declare no competing interests. This work is part of a larger grant funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The funding agency had no role in the development of this Comment.